Green bill would eliminate the tax on used-car sales on P.E.I.

Cody MacKay · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 07, 2025 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 12 hours ago

The P.E.I. Greens person introduced a measure that would scrap the taxation connected used-vehicle income connected Prince Edward Island.

Party Leader Matthew MacFarlane called Bill 104 an "affordability bill" that looks to marque buying and selling cars easier successful the province.

As of now, used-car income are deed with a 15 per cent retail income tax, which is usually based connected the declared acquisition price.

"The bottommost enactment is you request a car to to get around, and not everyone tin spell retired and spend a marque caller car," helium said.

"Young drivers getting into a car for the archetypal time, newcomers to P.E.I., radical connected little oregon fixed incomes, these are each segments of our colonisation who could truly payment by having a break. We're talking hundreds oregon thousands of dollars successful astir cases that could beryllium kept successful Islanders' pockets."

'Keep wealth successful their pockets'

MacFarlane says the thought for the measure came up aft conversations with Islanders, car income workers and the Green caucus.

He said he's heard stories astir Islanders who've enactment disconnected buying cars due to the fact that of the dense taxation measure that waits for them connected the different broadside of the purchase.

'Government shouldn't suffer show of the information that this is wealth that is inactive going to beryllium near successful the economy,' says Green MLA Matthew MacFarlane. (Rick Gibbs/CBC)

Another communal practice, MacFarlane said, is 1 wherever buyers and sellers hold to a price, but little the terms connected insubstantial to trim the full tax.

"This measure would debar adjacent having those conversations, and it could let for radical to get into a car and inactive support wealth successful their pockets for food, for vigor and for concern backmost into the section economy," helium said.

"I cognize government's position connected this volition beryllium 'Well, we're losing retired connected the taxation revenue' … authorities shouldn't suffer show of the information that this is wealth that is inactive going to beryllium near successful the economy."

MacFarlane's measure has not been debated connected the floor. He said helium hopes different MLAs volition spot it arsenic a mode that could assistance radical

"Leave this wealth successful Islanders' pockets wherever it belongs," helium said. "It's clip for authorities to truly admit however hard it is close present for Islanders."