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Manitoba's official opposition fears more tax hikes are in store when the NDP government delivers its new budget this spring. This comes after Premier Greg Selinger said in a New Year's Eve interview: 'We have also looked at areas where we can reasonably ask for additional revenue because they are already taxed, for example, through the federal government.' That had Myrna Driedger, finance critic for the Progressive Conservatives, accusing the NDP of harbouring a plan to raise the PST. She said she is concerned the PST will go up either by a direct increase or by having it expanded to other goods and services where it does not currently apply. The PCs already accuse Premier Selinger of breaking a campaign promise not to raise taxes by doing just that in his government's 2012 budget. Last year's budget, the opposition claims, included $184 million in tax increases on Manitobans. Perhaps most controversially, gasoline taxes went up 2.5 cents a litre. _ Compiled from a Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba news release
