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PM Mark Carney Announces Elimination of GST on New Homes (www.cpac.ca)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by merc@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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First time home buyers will not be charged GST (5%) when buying a home, as long as the place they're buying costs less than $1M. This means that people buying a home for the first time will save up to $50k on their purchase.

Edit: Note, GST is mostly only charged when buying newly built homes, so this won't have any effect for people buying used homes.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Sure, I get what you're saying. But, from a practical point of view, older people vote, so the government isn't likely to want to piss them off.

I just think this is realistically going to take decades to fix. We need to get back to thinking of housing as a boring expense, not a huge investment. That's going to take a long time to unwind.