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Ding Dong, The Tax is Dead: Voters Kill BC HST

by Saml

Aug 26, 2011

The people have spoken: The B.C. harmonized sales tax has been extinguished.

Elections BC released the results of the HST mail-in referendum Friday morning in Victoria – delivering the final death knell to the much hated tax.

A majority 54.73 per cent of voters sent in ballots to turn down the tax.

More than 1.6 million people -- or 52 per cent of registered voters -- mailed in referendum ballots during the eight-week voting period that ended earlier this month. The number represents almost as many people who voted in the last provincial election.

The province will now return to a GST/PST system, in a process estimated to take between 18 to 24 months.

Former premier Bill Vander Zalm, who spearheaded a movement against the HST, calls the results a victory for democracy in British Columbia.

"It sent a message to politicians that they can't simply do things because it's the will of a premier or a party, they have to consult the...See More

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