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There is a 5% tax on lodging and 5% tax on hotel room fees. New Brunswick: HST: 10: 15 The HST was increased two points to 10% with an overall tax of 15% on July 1, 2016. [6] Newfoundland and Labrador: HST: 10 15 The HST was increased two points to 10% with an overall tax of 15% on July 1, 2016. [7] Northwest Territories: GST: 0: 5 Nova Scotia ...
In British Columbia the corporate capital tax was eliminated as of April 1, 2010. From 1932 [ 35 ] until 1951, [ 36 ] Canadian companies were able to file consolidated tax returns , but this was repealed with the introduction of the business loss carryover rules. [ 37 ]
This information is primarily used in the calculation of property tax payable to the provincial government or relevant municipality in British Columbia. In 2009, some $6 billion (CAD) was raised in B.C. from property tax levies. In 2009, the total value of assessments in the province were $969 billion. By 2010, that number had grown to $1.04 ...
On 26 August 2011 Elections BC, the independent electoral overseer, announced that British Columbia voters defeated the new tax in the binding referendum conducted in June and July 2011 via a mail-in ballot. It was the first binding referendum on taxation in any state/provincial or national jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Nations. The ...
Equalization is a step in property taxation to bring a uniformity to tax assessment levels across different geographical areas or classes of properties. Equalization is usually in the form of a uniform percentage of increase or decrease to each area or class of property.
The word tax assessment is used in different ways, but often refers to a tax liability owed by a taxpayer. In the case of property, a tax assessment is an evaluation or an estimate of value that is typically performed by a tax assessor. The assessment leads to an "assessed value," which is a base number used in the calculation of the property tax.
A formal system of equalization payments was first introduced in 1957. [7] [ Notes 1]. The original program had the goal of giving each province the same per-capita revenue as the two wealthiest provinces, Ontario and British Columbia, in three tax bases: personal income taxes, corporate income taxes and succession duties (inheritance taxes).
In 1996, three of the four Atlantic provinces—New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia—entered into an agreement with the Government of Canada to implement what was initially termed the "blended sales tax" (renamed to "harmonized sales tax") which would combine the 7% federal GST with the provincial sales taxes of those provinces; as part of this project, the PST portion ...