一直没看到官方文件只是看到一些新闻报道。很不明白。
例如甲几年前买的公寓,住了几年没太大升值。2015年卖掉换了townhouse,买价550k.过去两年房价疯涨。买入的townhouse 已经市值800K 可是甲的收入在过去两年没有明显增加,这是他的错吗? 他一家收入要多少才可以达到个税1.6万?不够就要补齐。今后3年如有一方失业或收入缩水,更要多付税。这不是让无辜人为炒房后的物业升值买单吗?
乙,同样情况,如果乙是单亲父母,难道要补一万多的税?这合理吗?
丙, 现在考虑买自住房,如是单身,收入8万,为避免上税,他最高能买多贵的房?如是年轻夫妇,家庭收入12万,最贵能买多贵的房?这不是把很多刚需的挡在外面了吗?
我刚刚谷歌了一下:
His party has set out a new
Housing Affordability Levy that means if the NDP were elected May 9, all Metro Vancouver home owners would have to declare their home ownership each year. All owners of Metro Vancouver homes who do not pay federal and provincial income tax an annual provincial property tax of two per cent of that year’s BC Assessment value of the home.
This tax would apply to any home owner, whether they are a foreign national, a Canadian living overseas or a Canadian living in Canada, but not paying income tax – no matter how long they have owned the property.
In fact, the levy applies to every owner of a Metro Vancouver home. However, the long list of exemptions would mean that the vast majority of local residents would not pay it.
Home owners who are resident in Canada and liable for federal and provincial income taxes of more than the amount of their personal levy amount would be exempt from paying it, which would capture most working and retired people. Those paying income taxes of less than the levy amount would pay the difference.
Also, anyone who has lived in their home for more than five years (and currently lives there) would be exempt, whether or not they are liable for Canadian income tax, which would capture many more people, including most seniors.
There would also be exemptions for various other cases, such as residents with no taxable income or war veterans, even if they have lived in the home for less than five years.
Further, any owner who rents out their property and declares the rental income in Canada would also be exempt from the levy.
The idea is based on the Housing Affordability Levy
proposal issued last year by UBC Sauder School of Business adjunct professor Tom Davidoff, whom Eby and the NDP have been consulting with on the idea since Christy Clark and the Liberals rejected the proposal and applied the 15 per cent foreign buyer Property Transfer Tax.