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Toronto has the highest land transfer tax rates in Canada as it levies an additional land transfer tax equal in value to the Ontario land transfer tax. Alberta and Saskatchewan do not charge land transfer tax. To provide relief for the high costs of land transfer tax, some provinces provide rebates for first-time home buyers:
The GST applies nationally. The HST includes the provincial portion of the sales tax but is administered by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and is applied under the same legislation as the GST. The HST is in effect in Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Canadian property law, or property law in Canada, is the body of law concerning the rights of individuals over land, objects, and expression within Canada.It encompasses personal property, real property, and intellectual property.
The Office of the Mining and Lands Commissioner will have been in existence, as of May 2006, in one form or another, for one hundred years. The legislation that deals with the vast mineral resources in Ontario dates back to 1864. [2] The Mining Convention of 1905 followed on the heels of an exciting silver discovery in Cobalt, Ontario in 1903.
In a narrow legal sense, a transfer tax is essentially a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property from one entity to another. This kind of tax is typically imposed where there is a legal requirement for registration of the transfer, such as transfers of real estate , shares , or bond .
Until the 2009–2010 fiscal year, Ontario was the only province to have never received equalization payments; in 2009-2010 Ontario received 347 million dollars, [7] while Newfoundland, which has received payments since the program's creation, is now a so-called "have" province, and is now a net contributor and does not receive payments.
The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) was an independent administrative board, operated as an adjudicative tribunal, [1] in the province of Ontario, Canada. It heard applications and appeals on municipal and planning disputes, [ 2 ] as well as other matters specified in provincial legislation.
The timescale for the return of the search result depends on which local authority carries out the search. The majority of local authorities return search results in under five working days. [ 1 ] It is also possible to undertake a personal search of the local land charges register.