VICTORIA – A briefing document was written for Finance Minister Colin Hansen exactly two months before the 2009 B.C. election to prepare him for questions on Ontario's decision to sign on to the harmonized sales tax.
That briefing note and other government documents obtained under freedom of information legislation detail what would emerge a few months later as B.C.'s own HST: an exemption for lower-priced new homes and low-income earners, and a 12 per cent combined sales tax rate that could make it "revenue neutral" to the province.
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