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Officials in Toronto say that enforcing a tax on vacant homes may be difficult and another solution may be better.

Ontario plans to help cool a hot housing market by bringing in a 15-per-cent foreign buyer tax, expanding rent control, allowing Toronto to impose a tax on vacant homes and ... More

Toronto Mayor John Tory says he is open to following Vancouver’s lead by imposing a tax on vacant homes to crack down on speculators, as pressure mounts on governments of ... More

The talk of an empty homes tax in Vancouver is to become a reality. The city council says that it will be introduced by January 1, 2017.