{"id":21797,"date":"2016-08-03T06:25:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-columbia-slaps-property-tax-on-foreign-buyers\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T06:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:49:01","slug":"british-columbia-slaps-property-tax-on-foreign-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-columbia-slaps-property-tax-on-foreign-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia slaps property tax on foreign buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nForeign nationals buying Vancouver real estate will pay an additional property transfer tax of 15 per cent as part of an effort to address high real estate prices and low vacancy rates.The tax which took effect yesterday will apply&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : nzherald.co.nz\/Property&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/property\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=8&amp;objectid=11686422&amp;ref=rss\" target=\"_blank\">British Columbia slaps property tax on foreign buyers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Foreign nationals buying Vancouver real estate will pay an additional property transfer tax of 15&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-5Fz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21049,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/repercussions-from-new-real-estate-tax-in-canada-feared\/","url_meta":{"origin":21797,"position":0},"title":"Repercussions from new real estate tax in Canada feared","date":"July 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Real estate professionals in Canadaare decrying the unfairness of the British\u00a0Columbia\u00a0government springing a 15 per cent\u00a0tax on foreign buyers of homes with no notice.\r \r Source : South China Morning Post\r Read more...Repercussions from new real estate tax in Canada feared","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42739,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/vancouver-makes-about-face-on-taxing-foreign-home-buyers\/","url_meta":{"origin":21797,"position":1},"title":"Vancouver makes about-face on taxing foreign home buyers","date":"February 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Are there still any foreign buyers left though? 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