BC Foreign Buyer Additional PTT
Also known as: Foreign Buyer Tax · Additional PTT · FBT · 20% Additional PTT
A 20% additional Property Transfer Tax payable by foreign nationals, foreign corporations, and taxable trustees buying residential property in five specified BC regional districts.
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.
Related 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 — The federal + BC tax treatment of selling a presale-condo purchase contract before completion — 5% GST on the assignment fee since May 7, 2022, plus CRA's default treatment of the profit as 100%-included business income.
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author = {Job, Bronson},
title = {{BC Foreign Buyer Additional Property Transfer Tax}},
howpublished = {BC Real Estate Codex},
year = {2026},
url = {https://www.bronsonjob.com/codex#bc.ptt.foreign_buyer_additional},
urldate = {2026-05-08},
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BC Foreign Buyer Additional Property Transfer Tax — Bronson Job, BC Real Estate Codex (2026-05-08). https://www.bronsonjob.com/codex#bc.ptt.foreign_buyer_additional
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- BC Governmentretrieved 2026-05-08Additional Property Transfer Tax for Foreign Entitieshttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/property-taxes/property-transfer-tax/additional-property-transfer-tax
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