Premier Doug Ford's announcement that he was cancelling a scheduled tax increase on beer is good news.
The cancelled tax increase would have hiked the tax on beer by three cents a litre, and would have been the fourth provincial tax increase on beer in as many years, and the fourteenth beer tax increase in Ontario since 2004. These tax increases are all in addition to the federal tax on beer, which now increases automatically every year, and has been dubbed the "escalator tax" by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.