Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free 1987 Middle income families hit hard by personal taxes a downtown Toronto sidewalk became an open air shoe store yesterday after hundreds of mens footwear samples were put out for apparently by an adjacent shoe pedestrians tried to match pairs and some carted off Many of the new within a the Booty was nearly All tory sees budget hurting nip continued from Page 1 he said the Bottom line shows taxpayers will each hand out about extra this in a further breakdown of Filmon said a family of four earning or More would be hit for More than extra in personal tax and an additional per person in sales the government will col Lect an extra per or in and Filmon warned the nip will suffer for such a in a 45minute he asked the government to admit that its incompetence has committed Mani to bans to eve increasing tax Bur Dens and its fiscal plan will destroy the provinces ability to attract in vestment and create Kostyra would have people believe Only the Rich and big business Are hurting from the tax the conservative party Leader nothing could be further from the he noting its hard to believe that Only one of five taxpayers is below the wealthy while planning to collect Mil lion less in corporate income the government will Bill individuals for million More in income he he said that Burden is borne by not just the but also Middle income the tory Leader painted a picture of a government flailing about with out direction for fiscal last years budget increased Manitoba Hydro water rental rates by 68 per cent those rates have now been Cut by 24 per he the government had encouraged Energy conservation with program yet it has now applied the seven percent sales tax to insulation and other Energy conserving Filmon despite the massive tax the deficit will remain at million because the government has insisted on spending at twice the inflation he Filmon also attacked the government for penalizing which creates an additional million will be paid by employers with payrolls of More than he Consumers and workers will feel the Pinch of the payroll tax he he predicted employers who must pay the tax will keep salaries Down and hit with higher will pass them on to consume the current debt the tory Leader is equal to for every that twice the Load Manitoban shouldered in when the nip took he continued from Page 1 new Brunswick and provincial figures in the Survey were calculated by the Canadian Institute for chartered accountants and touche Ross and the taxes exclude provincial healthcare which in Sev eral provinces including Are not paid in direct taxes to the a Manitoba family of four with a combined personal income of for would have paid approximately in personal taxes to the province in for the family tax Bill will Rise to followed by an other increase to in using 1987 the same family in Alberta will pay almost or an extra in Alberta healthcare premiums should be added to the total to give a comparative picture to in where there Are no health the same family will pay less than the Manitoba Tony president of the Manitoba Institute of chartered a said the first two percent tax increase will take a huge slice out of Manitoba it will really affect a lot of peo Ples take Home Brookes adding the loss of consumer dollars to the government will Hurt the Economy because people spend less on consumer goods and Manitoba already taxes at a higher rate than most personal income tax in the prov Ince is calculated at 54 per cent of the Federal tax Only Nova new Brunswick and Newfoundland tax at higher All but Quebec have smaller tax bases to draw with a smaller population than bases Provin Cial taxes at 50 per cent of the Federal Albertas with twice the population of is per Middle income earners in Manitoba will Bear the Brunt of the Toper cent tax in not the High income earners As the government says a Winnipeg he made the claim after calculating the combined affect on different 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on net kicking in this and the new surtax on net income Over which will replace the present Gros income formula in an income earner making in 1987 will pay one per cent More in personal in the same earner will experience no the personal taxes of the Middle income family used in the example on the other will Rise by per cent in two years almost double that of the also among the added levies imposed in mondays the big Gest single item is the million in new Revenue from the one percent age Point increase in general sales to seven per effective May together with a 20cent increase in liquor prices effective the same a 750millilitre bottle of Johnny Walker red will now Cost second Only to Quebec Price of the new tobacco tax of one half a cent per will raise the Cost of a package of 25 King size cigarettes by 30 cents approximately a pack using shoppers drug Mart and puts Manitoba prices fourth highest on a country wide Pic faces total loss of million in 1986 continued from Page 1 the Board or i was never made aware of the situation until last october four months after Laufer was said min ister responsible for Pic since he said pics reinsurance Man Ager had prepared an analysis of the corporations exposure to unreported claims in july 1984 the minister was never made available to the Cabinet or the Board until last Buck Laschuk said it was the same Pic reinsurance manager who last on silvers Esti mated the Crown corporations total exposure on potential retrocession claims would be in its 1986 annual Pic says it has established a lion provision on paper to pay off those future combined with a lion loss in pics automobile Divi Sion and another million loss in general insurance has put the Crown corporations total loss for 1986 at Buck Laschuk denied pics Retro cession losses Are a repeat of an other Crown corporation running amuck like Max telecoms services the ill fated foreign subsidiary of the Manitoba Telephone Maxs foreign mostly in saudi Arabia and Are estimated to Cost tory telephones critic Don or Chard Pembina compared the re insurance losses to Max and demanded the minister in this at we have full control of the buckles Chuk said in an the minister said the reinsurance and retrocession initiated under the nip government of for Mer premiered thrived under later Buck Laschuk said of pics million potential liabilities in Retro cession 11 treaties accounted for ten of those were signed during the tory government of Sterling the 1986 annual report said new underwriting guidelines have been established to prevent future participation in the International prorate retrocession Buck Laschuk admitted the Retro cession loss could be More than the but said that will not be known for several he said the reinsurance and Retro cession business were under pics general insurance Laufer and Ken who retired As Vic president in february were responsible for he after Jordans Buck Laschuk Vic president Henry Dri Snensky was responsible for the general insurance the minister said there Are firms prepared to accept pics retrocession risks for a Agency fight to keep girl continued from Page 1 the native childcare Wasis Agency of Northern want her to remain in this in a document filed with the the Agency states the girl was taken from her parents As an infant be cause she required extensive med ical treatment for respiratory prob it says her parents were never told what became of her and several years after learning she had been adopted by a Foster they sought the Agency help in getting her last after a lengthy court the Foster parents reluctantly agreed to give up the the Agency states the natural parents love her and do not want to lose her the parents Only wish is that she be treated for her emotional disturbance and that she be returned to them once the treatment has been the Agency Larry a Winnipeg Legal Aid lawyer who until yesterday had been acting As the girls advocate in the custody said it is unrealistic to expect she could Ever return to the Allen said it would be virtually impossible for her to avoid Contact with the boys who raped As she regards her Foster parents As her Mother and father and desperately wants to be reunited with he Allen said although he strongly favors native Foster children being reunited with natural in this Case it is i really think this was one Case where she was just gone for too and she should have been left he said the return to her biological parents was both ill conceived and there was an abhorrent Lack of support for the lawyer she should have been counselled and there should have been All kinds of transitional he said the Wasis Agency handling of the Case is being examined and a lawsuit May be launched against the Agency on the girls he refused to in a report filed with the a Lynn Lake doctor who dealt with the girl also criticized the Agency handling of the it is if one judges by the attitude of the regional that their main interest is in placing her in the rather than in the child herself or her ability to the doctor the Wasis Agency executive director and lawyers for the two sets of parents could not be reached for ;