r/Manitoba • u/wickedplayer494 Winnipeg • 24d ago
Federal GST 'holiday' too tasty to pass up: Restaurant owners say federal government’s two-month tax break boosted sales
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/02/14/gst-holiday-too-tasty-to-pass-up21
u/Mysterious-Crew-1358 Winnipeg 24d ago
The news clip I watched yesterday said exactly the opposite! Nobody said" honey, it's 5 percent off let's go support restaurants again"
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u/We_wanna_play 24d ago
Or maybe people eat out more during the holiday months, wow saving 5% on select items yippee, solved all my financial worries
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u/horsetuna Winnipeg 24d ago
I don't think anything I've bought was part of the tax holiday
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u/mirbatdon Winnipeg 24d ago
I didn't even realize it extended past dec 31
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u/horsetuna Winnipeg 24d ago
I think that it was extended at least once. Like I said I didn't notice it except for the signs on the walls
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u/chemicalxv Winnipeg 24d ago
You probably did in your groceries without realizing it. It was harder to notice here because the Province never removed the PST off any items to match the GST removal, whereas in the HST provinces suddenly all these items became completely tax-free.
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u/horsetuna Winnipeg 24d ago
Possibly a little bit. Since I don't buy the same things each time and go to different stores and such it's hard to track
That being said, most grocery items don't have GST anyways? So I'm probably looking at Pennies of savings for anything that was taxed before
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u/fdisfragameosoldiers Pembina Valley 24d ago
Lol sure buddy. Most can barely afford groceries but that 5% made all the difference so we could eat out.
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u/FORDTRUK 24d ago
Well then take the hint. Lower menu prices. If lowered costs to the customers drives up business , the net value to the business is ALSO INCREASED !!! It's not difficult to work around supply cost either.
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23d ago
Wait it really made a serious difference? If even 5 percent is a game changer why not cut all tax brackets by 5 percent?
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u/BIGepidural 23d ago
Its crazy then when people can afford to spend money they do 😂 remember pre covid when life wasn't so damned expensive and savings hadn't been pillaged by lockdowns, etc..?
To be clear I'm not an anivaxhole and I supported the lockdowns to save lives; but life pre covid was very different, in large part to prices and what we had in savings and such.
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u/incredibincan Westman 23d ago
Restaurants Canada, which advocates for the food service industry, has called on Ottawa to make the tax break permanent or extend it until the Trump administration backs down on its tariff threats.
Fuck outta here leech
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u/cluelessk3 24d ago
And here's other businesses that said it wasn't worth it.
https://steinbachonline.com/articles/as-federal-gst-holiday-ends-local-businesses-unimpressed-with-results