Tax help and affordability: Highlights from the Manitoba budget

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.

Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press