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.
“He Promised Me the House”: Why Ontario Won’t Let You Sue on a Handshake Deal for Land — and the Part-Performance Exception That Sometimes Does
A spoken promise of a house meets section 4 of Ontario’s Statute of Frauds. See how the “unequivocally referable” test sorts errands, a house built on the land, and decades running a farm — and why a one-page signed note beats all three.
A Handwritten Will, a Kitchen-Table Signing, a Beneficiary Who Witnessed It: Which Ontario Wills Still Pass the House
Making your will now? An Ontario court will later ask four questions of it: is it in writing, was it signed and witnessed properly, did a witness or their spouse get a gift, and can it be rescued if not. What the Succession Law Reform Act says on each, and one step to take today for each.
Getting Married No Longer Cancels Your Will in Ontario — What That Means for the House in Your Parent’s Old Will
Your parent remarried and the old will leaves you the house. Since January 1, 2022, marriage no longer revokes an Ontario will — but the new spouse’s Family Law Act election still reaches the home. How it plays out if the house was the couple’s home, a rental, or held with you as joint tenants.
Leaving Canada but Keeping the House: What Happens to Your Principal Residence Exemption When You Sell Later
Moving abroad but keeping your Canadian home? Whether it sits empty, gets rented, or stays home to family, ITA s.40(2)(b) only counts years you were a Canadian resident toward the exemption. How s.54, s.45(2), the 4-year limit and departure rules fit together.
The Tree on the Property Line: Who Owns It in Ontario, and How Far Can You Trim Your Neighbour’s Branches?
A tree whose trunk grows on the boundary is common property under Ontario’s Forestry Act. What the Act and Toronto’s Chapter 813 say about planting, pruning and removing it, the fines involved, and where the statutes leave you to ask a lawyer.
Relocating for a New Job? A Stage-by-Stage Map of Which Home-Sale and Purchase Costs Count as Moving Expenses in Canada
Moving because of a new job or full-time studies, with your new home at least 40 km closer to the new work location? Follow one relocation from offer to tax return: which costs of selling the old home, carrying it while vacant, and buying the new one the Income Tax Act lets you deduct on line 21900, which it excludes, and what paperwork to keep at each stage.
Before You Dig in an Ontario Backyard: Who Each Party Is in the Locate System, and the One Set of Lines No One Has to Mark
Before you dig in an Ontario backyard — a fence post, a tree, a garden bed — the law casts you as the “excavator” and Ontario One Call as the corporation that relays your free locate request to the members who own the buried lines. Here is who each party is, what each one must do and by when, the preconditions in s.10 before a shovel goes in, and the one set of lines — your own private wiring — that the statute does not require anyone to mark.
Signing an Ontario Purchase Agreement with DocuSign: What the Law Says at Each Step
Can you sign an Ontario Agreement of Purchase and Sale with DocuSign? Follow one document through a deal and see which parts of Ontario’s Electronic Commerce Act, 2000 do the work: the electronic signature (s.11(1)), the writing requirement (s.5), expressing offer and acceptance on screen (s.19(1)), the default rules for when a document is sent and received (s.22), each party’s consent (s.3), and the short list of documents the Act still leaves out (s.31).
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