How much can homeowners expect to pay after capital gains tax increase?
TL;DW
If it's your primary residence, zero.
If it's a revenue generating secondary property, an extra 20k for every 400k of gains.
I love that the "wealth manager" they interviewed is making such a big deal about how it will affect people who would never have need of his services because they'll never have wealth, let alone enough to need management. Playing up the "imagine being taxed because your mom died!" angle.
I saw some middle class people crying because for their retreat they are selling their plex 1 million and will only have 972'000$ because of the new tax and their retreat is fucked up and their world is crumbling...
This will likely do more for housing affordability then the rather large list recently released of housing items plus the billions the Liberals plan to spend.
Hopefully more people will realize we should fix the things fundamentally wrong with housing instead trying to buy our way out of a broken system.
This has a "election reform" feeling about it: something the LPC is talking about in order to get progressive cred, but that they don't really want to do and will either a) abandon if they're elected or b) not have to do if they lose.