Ontario to make gas tax cut permanent, remove tolls on Hwy 407 East portion
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This article was published 13/05/2025 (319 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
PICKERING – Ontario drivers are set to benefit from the province’s upcoming budget, as Premier Doug Ford is announcing today that it will make a gas tax cut permanent and remove tolls from the provincially owned portion of Highway 407.
Ford promised those moves during the provincial election and says they will mean real and immediate relief for people.
The government temporarily cut the provincial gas tax rate by 5.7 cents and diesel by 5.3 cents in July 2022 and has repeatedly extended the cuts since then.
Ford announced today that Thursday’s budget will contain a measure to make the cut permanent, keeping the provincial rate of tax at nine cents per litre.
As well, the budget will permanently remove tolls from the provincially operated Highway 407 East, from Pickering to Clarington, Ont.
A Ministry of Transportation report in 2021 projected those tolls would generate the province around $72 million in revenue in 2024-25.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 13, 2025.