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Foreign landlord fails to pay taxes on rent for 6 years, the CRA and courts rule the tenant must pay 6 years of tax for them plus penalties and interest (www.theglobeandmail.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/canada@hexbear.net
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Absolutely insane ruling but unsurprising that the government would fuck over renters in yet another way. They say it's the tenants responsibility to know if their landlord resides in another country and to plan for that. This is just going to incentivize foreign landlords to not pay taxes and pushing all the responsibilities onto the tenant.

Real back to colonial absentee landowners vibes

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[39] To summarize the Appellant’s reasoning, since David Siscoe did not know, and had no reason to believe, that Sebastiana Trimarchi was a non-resident, section 215 should not apply to the Appellant.

[40] Counsel for the Respondent argued that liability under subsection 215(6) is not dependent on the taxpayer’s knowledge that payments were made to a non-resident.

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