Wine taxes are on the way up in Ontario
from http://torontoist.com/2016/02/newsstand ... y-19-2016/
"Hard liquor is subject to higher taxes in Ontario than wine and beer, although that may soon change. A provincial advisory council’s report on wine and beer sales, all 29 recommendations of which will be adopted by the government, included a call to move toward “fairer tax treatment” between the three categories. That would seem to mean raising taxes on beer, the lowest-taxed category of the three, and possibly on wine. Finance Minister Charles Sousa, asked twice yesterday if the upcoming provincial budget would include tax hikes on the two drinks, demurred. On CBC’s Power and Politics he said there would be a “levelling of the playing field.”
"Hard liquor is subject to higher taxes in Ontario than wine and beer, although that may soon change. A provincial advisory council’s report on wine and beer sales, all 29 recommendations of which will be adopted by the government, included a call to move toward “fairer tax treatment” between the three categories. That would seem to mean raising taxes on beer, the lowest-taxed category of the three, and possibly on wine. Finance Minister Charles Sousa, asked twice yesterday if the upcoming provincial budget would include tax hikes on the two drinks, demurred. On CBC’s Power and Politics he said there would be a “levelling of the playing field.”