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Selling U.S. Real Property in 2025: Avoiding Tax Pitfalls and Refund Delays for Canadian Residents

In 2020, Canadians faced critical decisions on what to do with their U.S. real property interests.  Due to travel restrictions from the Covid-19 pandemic, many could not visit the U.S. as usual.  At the same time, prices in many U.S. markets increased dramatically – giving Canadians further pause on whether to continue owning their vacation […]

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Taxation of the Hockey Player Versus the Movie Star

March 4, 2024

This is a story of the unusual difference between the Canadian taxation of non-Canadian professional athletes versus non-Canadian actors and actresses. Chapter 1 – The Hometown Hockey Hero Jonathan Tavares grew up in Ontario and played nine seasons for the New York Islanders. He became a free agent in summer 2018 and chose to play […]

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Blog Alert – Vacancy Tax Update

November 29, 2023

Over the last few years, various levels of governments have enacted new taxes attempting to address the housing affordability crises. Our past blogs have addressed these taxes: 2019 Blog – BC Speculation and Vacancy Tax January & March 2023 Blog – Canadian Federal Vacancy Tax and Update November 2023 has seen more tax changes and […]

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Underused Housing Tax – Affects Canadians Too

March 28, 2023

Canada’s new Federal Underused Housing Tax (“UHT”) is in effect for owners of Canadian residential properties as of December 31, 2022. Originally intended for non-Canadian owners, some Canadian citizens and permanent residents (“Canadians”) may be subject to this tax unless they timely file UHT tax returns. Intended for Non-Canadians The law is aimed at non-Canadian […]

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