Not exact matches
Last year's budget included a
proposal to provide an income
tax exemption
on capital gains of donated private corporation shares or real estate, beginning in 2017.
The federal budget
on March 21 included a
proposal to put an end to investment funds that «seek to reduce
tax by converting, through the use of derivative contracts, the returns
on an investment that would have the character of ordinary income to
capital gains.»
Criticism of Ottawa's small business
tax changes died down after the government eliminated its
proposal to
tax capital gains at a higher rate, and introduced a $ 50,000 threshold
on passive investments.
NAR will focus
on capital gains tax proposals and legislation expanding homeownership, including a first - time homebuyer incentive using individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and a revision of the current law rollover and $ 125,000
capital gains exclusion rules for existing homeowners.
REALTORS ® in Washington state had a recent success with defeating
proposals that would have created a 7 percent
capital gains tax on investment property and hiked the state business and occupancy
tax by 20 percent.
Under our
proposal, this would be achieved by allowing property investors to defer the
capital gains tax and the
capital cost allowance recovery
on the sale of an investment property when the funds are reinvested into another within a specified time period,» says the statement.