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Canada introduces tax measures to ease housing shortage
Reading Time: 2 minutesCanada: Lawmakers in Canada have agreed to impose new measures that limit income tax deductions on short-term rentals booked through platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo, in a bid to ease the country’s affordable housing shortage.
Winnipeg set to apply five per cent hotel tax to rentals
Reading Time: 2 minutesCanada: Winnipeg is set to apply a five per cent tax Airbnb rentals like it does with hotel rooms as it attempts to “level the economic playing field” in the accommodations sector. The city is in the process of updating its accommodation tax bylaw, which has required hotel rooms to levy a five per cent surcharge on their […]