Jay Winters News Today

The B.C. government announced in its 2024 budget a plan to introduce a tax the Flipping Tax on income earned from the sale of a property within 730 days of acquisition. The Flipping Tax, subject to legislative approval, will be imposed under the Residential Property Short-Term Holding Profit Tax Act scheduled to take effect January 1, 2025.1 The B.C. government estimates that the Flipping Tax will generate $43M of tax revenue in its first year.2

Bitty & Beau’s Coffee celebrated the second anniversary of its Athens location on Sept. 11, 2023, with a competition that both customers and employees participated in.

The 2023 Budget proposes material changes to the alternative minimum tax AMT regime which, as discussed below, could result in significant increases to taxes on capital gains i.e.,5-6 percentage points. Although practitioners have been half-expecting a capital gains inclusion rate increase since 2016 which has not come to be, this is the practical effect of the AMT amendments for larger capital gains.