Land Transfer Tax

• Here are the cities with the highest – and lowest – real estate taxes in Canada

  A city's ranking looks very different depending on whether you're looking at land transfer or property taxes.

  Money

  Jul 4, 2018
  
• Ontario land transfer tax rebate doubled to $4,000 for first time homebuyers

  Ontario is doubling the rebate on the land transfer tax for first-time homebuyers to $4,000 in an effort to help them enter the housing market, but it is raising the same tax on homes that sell for over $2 million.

  Consumer

  Nov 14, 2016
  
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• ‘Small change’ coming to help Ontario first time home buyers: Premier Wynne

  Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government's plan to help first-time home buyers will involve a "small change," not a radical shift in the way the housing market works in the province.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2016
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• Ontario will not allow any community outside Toronto to have a land transfer tax

  The 444 municipalities across Ontario will not be given the same power as the city of Toronto to impose a land transfer tax.

  Politics

  Dec 1, 2015
• Toronto real estate keeps rocketing skyward

  Home sales in Toronto aren't slowing down. A total of 88,462 homes were sold through the first 11 months of 2014 up 6.6 per cent from 2013.

  Consumer

  Dec 16, 2014
• Half of Torontonians willing to pay more to spend less time on TTC

  Half of Torontonians are willing to pay more in taxes to get around faster, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll done exclusively for Global News.

  Politics

  Oct 1, 2014
• Chow tax hike on multi-million home sales would fund breakfast, transit

  Olivia Chow says she’d hike taxes on Toronto’s priciest home sales to pay for transit and an expanded breakfast program for schoolchildren if she’s elected mayor.

  Sep 2, 2014
• Rob Ford promises savings, but won’t promise sobriety

  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford won’t guarantee a sober four years in office should he be re-elected – he won’t even promise to stay sober this weekend.

  Politics

  Jul 4, 2014
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• 5 per cent cut in land transfer tax a ‘step in the right direction,’ Ford says

  Mayor Rob Ford announced Tuesday afternoon what he called the first step of phasing out the land transfer tax.

  Canada

  Dec 10, 2013
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• Mayor Rob Ford: three years in, has he kept his promises?

  As Rob Ford celebrates his third year as mayor of Toronto, Global News takes a look at whether he has fulfilled his campaign promises.

  Politics

  Oct 25, 2013