Farm Fuel Tax in Al - Berta?

[sumdumguy]

New budget short 7 Billion. Is the writing on the wall?

[rockpile]

Sales tax. End of flat tax. Zero options.

[blackpowder]

Sadly rock pile might be right.
To the farm fuel rebate. It's been my pet peeve for years, on road fuel anyway. Should have been gone years ago.
Both are political sacred cows though.

[grassfarmer]

I agree with you on that one blackpowder. Subsidizing hockey moms to drive their kids to hockey tournaments all over the country in SUVs using farm fuel. Total abuse of the system.

Prentice ruled out a sales tax yesterday I believe.

[farmaholic]

Wow, Alberta's personal rate is cheaper than Sask's corporate rate.

Does that mean there are few corporate(private) farms in Alberta. Am I missing something?

[Oliver88]

Sask has plans to match Alberta's corporate tax rate AFTER Sask is debt free. (A few years away)
Alberta is 3% lower currently as far as I know.

[BTO_farmalll]

Looks Like Yall in Alberta Shoulda Been Savin fer a Rainy Day!!!!!!!!!

[wilagro]

Farm fuel at reduced cost is a GOD-GIVEN right for us farmers. Take it away and rural support for the !@#$% Progressive CONservatives will vanish.

[sumdumguy]

Wow, what a great place to live! I never knew you guys had it so good. What about your land taxes? I heard a few years back that they were less than half of Sask? What the "h" am I doing here?

[wmoebis]

I phoned the Sask gov't farm fuel tax exemption guys a couple years ago and gave him a real good listing to.

He informed me in a very stern manor that they were looking at removing the tax exemption for farm fuel. His reason was that farmers are wrecking the roads hauling grain with semi's and heavy/oversize farm equipment on public roads.

Just watch the highways and see how many grain trucks there are and how many are farm plated. That is a lot of revenue for gov'ts and lost revenue for custom truckers who complain about it being unfair.

My bet is farm plates and farm fuel tax exemption will be gone everywhere and don't be surprised if pilot cars and over width permits will be needed whenever moving equipment etc on public roads. IMHO

[grassfarmer]

I think what we had in Europe was maybe fairer. Farm fuel was strictly for field use. But then you have an enforcement issue.

[wmoebis]

THX grassfarmer I wonder how it is in the rest of our competing world. USA, Russia, France, Aust etc. and how it is policed!

[bucket]

If you are an average motorist and are too stupid to pull over for a combine or a truck carrying a combine well in advance, I say thanks for my pickup charge costing 2000 bucks because they need pilot vehicles.

I also say thank you for those that thought elevator consolidation was a good idea. Maybe you could talk to graincos and thank them for pushing grain past the local 10000 tonne facility down the highway to moose jaw.

Yup for sure farmers are to blame for governments that allowed it to happen without looking at the impact of their decision.

It use to be combine could be deliver locally by train. And that was when you didn't have to order it 6 months in advance. Now they can't schedule it.

all very odd.

[blackpowder]

Willy. You were being sarcastic right?

[wilagro]

blackpowder: Maybe...maybe not.