{"id":30418,"date":"2025-05-14T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-make-gas-tax-cut-permanent-remove-tolls-on-hwy-407-east-portion\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:36:11","slug":"ontario-to-make-gas-tax-cut-permanent-remove-tolls-on-hwy-407-east-portion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-make-gas-tax-cut-permanent-remove-tolls-on-hwy-407-east-portion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario to make gas tax cut permanent, remove tolls on Hwy 407 East portion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PICKERING, ONT. \u2014 Ontario drivers are set to benefit from the province\u2019s upcoming budget, as Premier Doug Ford has announced it will make a gas tax cut permanent and remove tolls from the provincially owned portion of Highway 407.<\/p>\n<p>Ford promised those moves during the provincial election and says they will mean real and immediate relief for people.<\/p>\n<p>The government temporarily cut the provincial gas tax rate by 5.7 cents and diesel by 5.3 cents in July 2022 and has repeatedly extended the cuts since then.<\/p>\n<p>Ford announced today that Thursday\u2019s budget will contain a measure to make the cut permanent, keeping the provincial rate of tax at nine cents per litre.<\/p>\n<p>As well, the budget will permanently remove tolls from the provincially operated Highway 407 East, from Pickering to Clarington, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry of Transportation report in 2021 projected those tolls would generate the province around $72 million in revenue in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/05\/ontario-to-make-gas-tax-cut-permanent-remove-tolls-on-hwy-407-east-portion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] PICKERING, ONT. \u2014 Ontario drivers are set to benefit from the province\u2019s upcoming budget, as Premier Doug Ford has &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario to make gas tax cut permanent, remove tolls on Hwy 407 East portion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-to-make-gas-tax-cut-permanent-remove-tolls-on-hwy-407-east-portion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario to make gas tax cut permanent, remove tolls on Hwy 407 East portion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-30418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}