BC Provincial Budget 2016 – Things of Note for Home Buyers
KellyHudsonMortgages • February 17, 2016
Breaking News:
The BC Minister of Finance has announced several changes* that will impact home buyer’s including:
- The first time home buyer’s exemption will remain the same at $475,000
- Newly-built homes up to $750k will be property transfer tax (PPT) exempt, but only
for Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
- This exemption applies to all homes that are owner-occupied for at least a year after purchase date (qualifications for this do not include relatives).
- This is a potential savings in closing costs of up to $13,000.
- This is in addition to the existing First Time Home Buyers’ Program for properties up to $475k.
- Homes purchased for over $2 million have an increase in property transfer tax of 1% bringing the total tax which was 2% to 3%.
- The 3% tax is only paid on the amount over $2,000,000.00, not the full price.
- This tax applies to both new and used homes.
- Buyers will be required to provide their citizenship information, disclosing their country of residence for all property transactions. This information will be monitored by the government
- This hasn’t been done since 1998.
- The beneficial ownership of properties held by corporations will also be tracked.
* the full details of the changes haven’t been released, so we will know more shortly.
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