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The Business Council of British Columbia was critical of the government's new tax bracket, which it says pushes the federal-provincial personal tax rate above 50 per cent.
“Higher personal taxes on a small slice of the population will generate less incremental revenue than the government is forecasting, and undermine efforts to foster a more innovative, entrepreneurial economy,” Jock Finlayson, the council's executive vice-president, said in a statement.