Zakiya is a staff writer with STOREYS. She has reported on real estate for Apartment Therapy, Curbed, and Post City Magazines. She also writes a quarterly series for a Canadian design publication.
A shake-up is on the table at this week’s Toronto City Council deliberations when it comes to how the Vacant Home Tax will be rolled out in the years to come.Although it’s only in its second year of effect, Toronto’s Vacant Home Tax has fully spiralled into chaos, and the City has had to back-track on over 100,000 charges that were mistakenly issued for the 2023 tax year.
In any case, Toronto City Council will take a good hard took at how the tax is executed this week — as mentioned earlier — more than one councillor is suggesting axing the tax completely. “Some people claimed they never received a notice letter requesting their declaration, did not receive adequate communication from the City alerting them of the annual registration requirement and deadline, or knew the program existed at all. The process of rectifying the wrongful tax bill coupled with a late penalty fee has also been unnecessarily difficult.
That was not the first time Myers has questioned the effectiveness of the filing process. “Isn't there a way to collect the information by targeting homes that we suspect are vacant rather than asking everyone in the city to fill out these forms?” Myers asked at. “It seems terribly inefficient how we do this, asking people to declare their homes vacant when most people are just going to not do that, rather than just targeting the homes that we suspect are vacant.
Other Councillors argue that the City just needs to be better when it comes to communication. Councillor Alejandra Bravo said in aa few weeks ago that it was “not well-communicated and made clear” to homeowners that they would have declare the occupancy status of their properties more than once. The petition to the Supreme Court was filed last week by the West Coast Association for Property Rights, also known as the Property Rights Association of BC .CREA’s New ‘Duty Of Cooperation’ Policy Raises Questions Over Enforcement, Penalties
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