In response to a new tax, property investors freed up an estimated 20,000 rental homes for British Columbians, according to a recent report, which proves that the one-of-a-kind Canadian tax measure is having the intended impact.it commissioned on the tax introduced in 2018 by the NDP government, the speculation and vacancy tax. The intent of the tax was to target empty homes and to address speculation and foreign money that had flowed into the market. Each year, every B.C.
The report, prepared by University of B.C. real estate finance professor Tsur Somerville and analyst Jake Wetzel, estimates that the 20,000 homes were added to the secondary rental market between 2018 and 2020, after the tax was introduced. “This problem is undoubtedly graver as these data do not include Canadian citizens who own property but for whom a majority of their income is untaxed world-wide income,” says the report.
Many in the housing industry, and politicians and some academics, treated the assertion that foreign money was having an impact, or that so many homes were sitting empty, with skepticism.
Where this failed was deeming 50 year old cottages with no insulation as part of the empty home program
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Averyflash But, but, won’t somebody think of the speculators and their needs? Right KevinFalcon?
BAN AIRBNB except for sharing space in your own residence.
Good start! Now restrict Airbnb to maximum two properties per host, and one must be in their primary residence.
This is stupid, the only units subject to this tax are those that will be unaffordable for those who really need a place to live. What is the point?