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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.

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By-law Officer, Fire Inspector or MPAC Assessor at Your Door: When an Ontario Homeowner Can Say No Depends on What They’re Holding

Can an Ontario homeowner refuse entry to a by-law officer, building inspector, fire inspector or MPAC assessor? It depends on what they carry: ID only, a written notice, a court order or warrant, or an emergency. Section by section under the Municipal Act, City of Toronto Act, Building Code Act, Fire Protection and Prevention Act and Assessment Act.

	      Oct 12, 2026	    

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Front-Yard Parking and Driveway Widening in Toronto: Three Strips of Land, Three Sets of Rules

Walk from your front wall to the road and the approvals change at every line: a Chapter 918 front yard parking licence on private land in the former City of Toronto, a Chapter 743 permit for any driveway work across the City-owned boulevard, and a City-installed curb ramp paid for by the owner. What each needs and what happens if you pave first.

	      Oct 12, 2026	    

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Selling a Home Abroad While Living in Canada: Capital Gains, Foreign Tax Credits and the Principal Residence Question

Own a home outside Canada and now live here? How the Income Tax Act treats the sale depends on how the home was used after you moved: empty and visited, rented out, lived in by parents, or lived in by you. Principal residence designation, T1135, foreign tax credit and exchange rate rules, explained scenario by scenario.

	      Oct 12, 2026	    

	      Tax, Legal & TRESA	    

Buying Rural Land in Ontario: Do You Own the Mining Rights Under It?

Surface rights vs. mining rights on Ontario rural land and cottages, explained as a three-question test: who holds the mining rights, which side of the French River, Lake Nipissing and Mattawa River line the land sits on, and whether a claim was already in place when protection began. Based on the Mining Act.

	      Oct 11, 2026	    

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Your Agent’s Mistake Cost You Money in Ontario: A Timeline From the Day You Find Out to the 15-Year Backstop

Lost money because of a real estate agent’s error in Ontario? A stage-by-stage timeline: when the two-year limitation clock starts, what to gather in the first weeks, how E&O insurance and RECO fit in, the $50,000 Small Claims line, and the 15-year ultimate deadline.

	      Oct 10, 2026	    

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Missing Owner, Ontario House: How the Absentees Act and the Declarations of Death Act Handle the Bills, a Lease, a Sale and a Return

An Ontario homeowner has disappeared. Decision by decision (carrying costs, renting, selling, the owner coming back), what the Absentees Act and the Declarations of Death Act, 2002 each allow, read from the statute text.

	      Oct 9, 2026	    

	      Tax, Legal & TRESA	    

Your Employer Is Relocating You and Covering the Loss on Your House: A Line-by-Line Tax Reading of the Relocation Package

Reading an employer relocation package? Go line by line: house-hunting trips, commission and legal fees, carrying costs on an unsold home, and the loss-on-sale top-up. Which rule governs each, the $15,000 and 40 km tests in the Income Tax Act, and what lands on your T4.

	      Oct 9, 2026	    

	      Tax, Legal & TRESA	    

Renting a Home to Your Parents or Adult Children Below Market: The Rent, the Loss and the Principal Residence Question, From Move-In to Sale

Letting your parents or adult kids live in a property you own for less than market rent? Follow the arrangement through time: what happens the day they move in, what CRA’s T4036 guide says about the rent and any rental loss each tax year, and whose occupancy counts toward the principal residence exemption when you sell.

	      Oct 9, 2026	    