BC Foreign Buyer Additional PTT
Also known as: Foreign Buyer Tax · Additional PTT · APTT · FBT · 20% Additional PTT
A 20% additional property transfer tax on residential purchases by foreign nationals, foreign corporations and taxable trustees. It applies in five specified BC regional districts, not across the whole province.
BC charges an additional 20% Property Transfer Tax on top of the general PTT when residential property in one of five specified regional districts (Metro Vancouver, Capital, Fraser Valley, Nanaimo, Central Okanagan) is purchased by a foreign national, foreign corporation, or taxable trustee. The additional tax was introduced in 2016 at 15% and raised to 20% with expanded geography effective February 21, 2018.
The additional PTT applies separately from — and in addition to — the federal Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act (the foreign-buyer ban), which prohibits most non-Canadians from purchasing residential property in Census Metropolitan Areas through January 1, 2027.
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BC Property Transfer Tax calculatorRelated terms
- Property Transfer Tax — A provincial tax payable to the Province of British Columbia on the registered fair market value of any residential property title transfer, calculated using marginal-rate brackets.
- Federal Foreign Buyer Ban — Federal legislation prohibiting most non-Canadians from purchasing residential property in Census Metropolitan Areas, in force through January 1, 2027.
- Presale Condo Assignment Tax Treatment — What you owe when you sell a presale contract before the building completes.
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year = {2018},
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