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If you rent it out so someone can live in it, then it isn't vacant any more, that's the whole point of the tax.
by Finnucane 6y ago
If you rent it out so someone can live in it, then it isn't vacant any more, that's the whole point of the tax.
- gamblor956 6y agoYes, that's generally how you get around a vacancy tax without spending more time and money on convoluted solutions to get around the tax, like buying furniture and setting up utilities and paying someone to periodically turn on the lights and run the water and pretend that they live there without actually living there. (This is actually a thing that people used to do when Vancouver introduced its vacancy tax.)
- Finnucane 6y agoYou're not really 'getting around the tax' when the intention of the tax is to give owners an incentive to rent or sell to an occupant. You're doing what the tax is trying to get you to do.