Investment Restrictions and Vacancy Taxes and the Impacts on Developers

Mark Lewis taught a course for the Continuing Education Society of British Columbia on investment restrictions and vacancy taxes and the impacts on developers. Mark Lewis and Shauna Towriss covered the following subjects:

• Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act;
• Property Transfer Tax Act;
• Speculation and Vacancy Tax Act;
• Underused Housing Tax Act; and
• the Empty Homes Tax Bylaw.