HST Campaign

Ontario is spending 1.6 (m) million dollars to sell its controversial move to harmonize sales taxes.

Print ads which come out Thursday highlight an income tax cut that took effect January 1st.

Revenue Minister John Wilkinson says more than 400-thousand people have visited a government website to help show how the tax changes will affect them and their businesses.

But opposition critics are not buying it.

Progressive Conservative Lisa McLeod calls the ads another broken promise that just "adds insult to injury'' by costing taxpayers more money.

The New Democrats say all the information in the ads could have been distributed through public hearings.