Tax, Legal & TRESA
税法与监管：HST、土地转让税、律师费、BRA、TRESA、RECO。 HST, Land Transfer Tax, lawyer fees, BRA, TRESA reform, RECO rules.
Toronto’s Mandatory Downspout Disconnection: Which Homes Must Comply and When an Exemption Applies
Working backwards from the exemption: what Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 681 means by hazardous or not technically feasible, what the City reviews, which owners must disconnect, where the water may go afterwards, and how the City enforces it.
Ontario’s Cosmetic Pesticide Ban at Home: What You or Your Lawn Company Can Still Use, and When the Exceptions Apply
A homeowner’s reading of Ontario’s cosmetic pesticide ban under Pesticides Act s.7.1 and O. Reg. 63/09: the Allowable List (Version 5, effective November 28, 2022) and the “solely contain” label test, the structural-pest, stinging-insect and poison ivy exceptions and their conditions, why municipal pesticide by-laws are inoperative, and what to ask a lawn-care company before it sprays.
When the Lawn Next Door Turns Into a Meadow: What Ontario’s Weed Control Act and Toronto’s Turfgrass By-law Each Regulate
A step-by-step walk through Toronto’s long-grass and prohibited-plant process, from the City’s advisory letter to an officer’s order, City-done work and the cost on the property tax bill, alongside the separate provincial Weed Control Act track run by weed inspectors: the 20 cm turfgrass rule in Chapter 489, the 10-plant Schedule A, the 25 noxious weeds in Reg. 1096, the s.22 farmland limit, and the 7-day and 15-day deadlines.
Survey Bars and Boundary Markers in Ontario: Can a Fence Crew Pull Them, and What Happens Next
A homeowner’s project-timeline guide to survey bars in Ontario: how to locate them from your survey plan before work starts, what to write into the contractor’s instructions, who may lawfully take one up (Criminal Code s.442, s.443), why the Surveys Act treats the boundary on a plan of subdivision as unalterable (s.54, s.55), and why resetting one is licensed cadastral surveying under the Surveyors Act s.11.
The Estimate, the Change Order, the Final Bill: How Ontario’s 10% Rule Reads Your Renovation Paperwork
Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act, 2002 bars a supplier from charging more than 10% over an estimate, and lets you require the work at the estimated price if it does. Here is what the estimate, the change order and the final invoice each do under the Act, and what goes wrong when one is missing.
Marriage Contracts and Cohabitation Agreements: What They Can and Can’t Do for Your Home in Ontario
Owning a home before the wedding, signing after you marry, living together with no plan to marry, or marrying after a cohabitation agreement: what Ontario’s Family Law Act lets a domestic contract settle about the house in each case, and what it will not enforce.
Joint Owner Died? Why the Survivor Still Needs a Survivorship Application in Ontario
When an Ontario co-owner dies, survivorship may already have moved the home, but the land register does not update itself. Five title scenarios — spouses as joint tenants, a married owner on title with someone else (Family Law Act s.26(1)), tenants in common, “No Survivorship” entries and the last surviving owner — and what each one needs.
Working From Home as an Employee: What Renters and Homeowners Can Deduct With a T2200
A work-from-home employee’s claim depends on two facts: how you are paid and whether you rent or own. Walk through four household profiles (salaried renter, salaried owner, commission-paid owner, and a couple sharing one home) to see what the CRA allows, what it refuses, the T2200 and 50% tests, and what happens when expenses exceed your pay.
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