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West Vancouver wants the ability to impose an empty homes tax:

West Vancouver has a large number of foreign homeowners and while these owners are subject to the province's speculation tax, the city's mayor wants the municipality to have the power to tax them further.

Mayor Mary-Ann Booth says the city would like to receive direct revenue from the provincial speculation vacancy tax, as well as have the right to impose an additional vacancy tax on top of the provincial one to create more affordable housing.

"This is a real problem," Booth said in a phone interview with CBC's The Early Edition, adding West Vancouver has 1,700 empty homes, which is equivalent to 10 per cent of its total housing stock...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...-tax-1.5285087