With soaring energy prices weighing down on Canadian motorists, federal and provincial gas taxes are making their struggles even harder, a taxpayers’ rights group says, noting that some of those taxes are hidden and don’t appear on the receipt.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) said in its recently released 2022 Gas Tax Honesty Report, based on gas and diesel price information from April, that taxes account for 55.1 cents per litre of gasoline on average across Canada, and make up between 18 and 38 percent of the price Canadians pay at the pump, depending on the city or province.
