Tax help and affordability: Highlights from the Manitoba budget
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WINNIPEG – Manitoba Finance Minister Adrien Sala tabled on Tuesday the provincial budget for 2026-27. Here are some highlights:
— The provincial sales tax is to be removed, as of July, on all food at grocery stores. Basic groceries are already exempt.
— The annual homeowners credit on education property taxes is to increase next year by $100, to $1,700.
— The homeowners tax credit will be reduced for people with homes assessed at over $1 million and eliminated for owners of homes above $1.5 million.
— The province will talk with municipalities and aim to make public transit free for students up to Grade 12.
— Families receiving the biggest child care subsidies will see their $2 per day fee eliminated.
— New money for health care, including $22.1 million for a cardiac care clinic at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg.
— $16.2 million toward a new road and airport at Wasagamack, a remote First Nation community.
— The provincial tax credit for renters is to increase $50, to $625.
— A projected deficit of $498 million on total spending of $27.3 billion.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 24, 2026.