Tax Collectors Deal

More than 12-hundred Ontario tax collectors will get a severance package worth -- up to 45-thousand dollars each -- despite the fact they won't be losing their jobs.

As part of the move to harmonize sales taxes with Ottawa the provincial collectors will become federal employees.

Progressive Conservative critic Ted Arnott says the move really amounts to a hefty severance package to change job titles.

Arnott says they'll work in the same office, not miss a day of work, and are paid up to 45-thousand dollars to change their business cards.