隐藏的税费
住房税费不断不可持续地增长，为贪婪的政府官僚机构提供了资金，管理队伍不断膨胀，增加了更多的规章制度和费用，从而抑制了住房建设的努力。
看看不列颠哥伦比亚省四级政府对典型租赁和公寓征收的税费吧。这些图表可是几年前的！从那时起，费用就一直在上涨，导致住房项目的建造、购买或租赁成本过高。
除此之外，还有层出不穷的新规，这些新规又增加了成本！东温的一位房屋建筑商阿维（Avi）在一条爆红的推文中说，市政府工作人员要求他进行“简单”的浴室翻新，并向市政府提交一份昂贵的树木专家报告。
这位卑诗省纳奈莫市居民撰文谈到他所在城市决定将开发费翻倍，这对首次购房者的影响尤为严重。“市议会应该采取正确行动，取消所有惩罚性开发费，省政府也应该降低经济适用房的土地转让税。然后，就等着看经济适用房的蓬勃发展吧。”
-图表来自房地产税专家Paul Sullivan 、 Ryan ULC。
除此之外，还有层出不穷的新规，这些新规又增加了成本！东温的一位房屋建筑商阿维（Avi）在一条爆红的推文中说，市政府工作人员要求他进行“简单”的浴室翻新，并向市政府提交一份昂贵的树木专家报告。
这位卑诗省纳奈莫市居民撰文谈到他所在城市决定将开发费翻倍，这对首次购房者的影响尤为严重。“市议会应该采取正确行动，取消所有惩罚性开发费，省政府也应该降低经济适用房的土地转让税。然后，就等着看经济适用房的蓬勃发展吧。”
-图表来自房地产税专家Paul Sullivan 、 Ryan ULC。
除此之外，还有层出不穷的新规，这些新规又增加了成本！东温的一位房屋建筑商阿维（Avi）在一条爆红的推文中说，市政府工作人员要求他进行“简单”的浴室翻新，并向市政府提交一份昂贵的树木专家报告。
这位卑诗省纳奈莫市居民撰文谈到他所在城市决定将开发费翻倍，这对首次购房者的影响尤为严重。“市议会应该采取正确行动，取消所有惩罚性开发费，省政府也应该降低经济适用房的土地转让税。然后，就等着看经济适用房的蓬勃发展吧。”
-图表来自房地产税专家Paul Sullivan 、 Ryan ULC。
除此之外，还有层出不穷的新规，这些新规又增加了成本！东温的一位房屋建筑商阿维（Avi）在一条爆红的推文中说，市政府工作人员要求他进行“简单”的浴室翻新，并向市政府提交一份昂贵的树木专家报告。
这位卑诗省纳奈莫市居民撰文谈到他所在城市决定将开发费翻倍，这对首次购房者的影响尤为严重。“市议会应该采取正确行动，取消所有惩罚性开发费，省政府也应该降低经济适用房的土地转让税。然后，就等着看经济适用房的蓬勃发展吧。”
-图表来自房地产税专家Paul Sullivan 、 Ryan ULC。
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The regional government sewage fee (Development Cost Charge) for a new apartment in Vancouver was $6,249 last year. From $13,392 this year, it's being hiked to $17,873 in 2026 and $20,906 in 2027. That’s a 235 per cent fee increase on builders, passed on to buyers and renters.
“We’re taxing new homes at the same rate, relatively, as we do cigarettes,” said Kevin Layden, president and CEO of Wesbild Holdings Ltd. in BIV News.
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“开发费增加了每个人的住房成本。这其实就是一种住房税。在住房危机期间，我们认为不应该提高住房税，”住房部长肖恩·弗雷泽在谈到渥太华市政府5月份决定将开发费提高至多13%时表示。
2024年，在房屋建造和销售放缓的情况下，多伦多两次提高每套房屋（单元）的开发费用，共计上涨了40％。
这张图表显示了各市政府大幅提高收费对住房市场的阻碍。这还不包括其他各级政府征收的各种税费，这些税费最终都包含在购房或租房成本中。
2024年，在房屋建造和销售放缓的情况下，多伦多两次提高每套房屋（单元）的开发费用，共计上涨了40％。
安大略省隐藏的费用
This is the first time CMHC has collected this development charge data on new homes, validated by CMHC analysts.
Focused on 30 municipalities in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec, all source data is here.
Interesting that the city of Vancouver (with enormous fees) was not included.
But are they too high a cost on top of all the other levels of government fees and regulatory costs? And where is all that money going? And are these funds being well-managed? Taxpayers aren't seeing many new daycares, hospitals or schools for the billions being taken from homebuilders.
The new sewage treatment plant being managed by the Metro Vancouver regional government in North Vancouver is billions over budget while an independent audit has been shelved. Are all these various fees and charges levied on homebuilders simply building more bureaucracy...?
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Transparency is needed in real estate sales and rental contracts for buyers and renters.
Ken Grafton, a Quebec writer for the Hamilton Spectator and The Chicago Tribune and
Marc Denhez , an author, lawyer, and Canadian Institute of Planners award winner wrote about this recently.
"We can blame the housing crunch instead on foreign investors or on owners who leave their property vacant or who convert housing to B&B, but the reality is that public sector policies contribute directly to the high cost of housing in Canada.
In Canada, sales taxes on ... food and clothing — when applicable at all — are transparently listed on the consumer’s bill of sale; but most of the buffet of taxes and charges on housing, ... never make their way to the consumer’s Agreement of Purchase & Sale. They are buried in the “supply chain” never to be seen again, except in the inflated total figure at the bottom of the page."
- Storeys, Jan. 9, 2024 Cash Cow: Government taxes and fees on new housing
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Metro Vancouver Regional Government Development Cost Charges levied on homebuilders have seen a 10x INCREASE by 2027, says community planning expert Michael Mortensen on Linkedin, terming this "insane".
"Over the last 20 years, the cost to develop an apartment in Vancouver has increased >3X; government taxes, fees and levies grew >7.5X; while local household incomes have risen only 1.7X."
New West City Councillor Daniel Fontaine levied his own criticism squarely at the regional government for its bloated bureaucracy and unaccountable spending: "Metro Vancouver has evolved from a basic regional utility into something much larger: a sprawling bureaucracy that now dabbles in housing, economic development, and park operations. It’s an empire with Crown-sized budgets but little of the oversight or media scrutiny that provincial Crown corporations face. That needs to change.
Residents deserve a say in whether they want to continue with a structure where local appointees make billion-dollar decisions with minimal transparency, or move toward a directly elected body that answers to the public.
Metro Vancouver’s mandate should also be narrowed back to its core utilities – water, liquid waste, and solid waste. These are the essential services families rely on every day. Straying into broader initiatives risks diluting focus and driving up costs. Residents expect reliable services, not empire building."
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A recent analysis of home building costs before and after the recent Metro Vancouver Regional Government fee hikes confirms many construction projects are no longer financial viable, profiled in Storeys.
This means they don't get built.
Polygon Homes Executive Vice President Robert Bruno advises: "I've been [at Polygon] for 22 years and I've never seen a cost environment like we have today.
Our costs are the highest that we've ever seen and we don't forecast them coming down in the near-term."
An independent firm, Coriolis projected the profit margins of the projects under the new fees, concluding many projects in cities across the lower mainland were not financially feasible.
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Perhaps of no surprise is that BC and Ontario, where housing affordability remain the worst in Canada, also levy some of the highest, harmful fees.
They score a Failing (F) grade on the "anti-harmful" housing policies provincial report card by Michael Moffatt, a Canadian economist, Founding Director of the University of Ottawa's Missing Middle Initiative, and a professor of Business, Economics, and Public Policy at Ivey Business School.
"Overall, New Brunswick is Canada’s top (housing) performer by our index, with Prince Edward Island finishing a close second.
Ontario finished last, well behind 9th-place British Columbia."
In the Coast Reporter, Moffatt's study concluded:
"provinces in Atlantic Canada tend to "get the basics right. A lot of it is just not getting in your own way," he said, noting that development charges and land transfer taxes tend to be low in those provinces, while approval speeds are high."
Moffatt also spoke about the taxes levied on his first home purchase. "Taxes on new homes have priced the middle class out of the market. In 2004, I bought a new home in London, Ontario, for $168,000. Development charges, PST, and GST totalled under $16,000 after rebates. Today, those same charges exceed $110,000, a 600% increase. Add other fees, land transfer taxes, and interest on development charges, and the tax bill approaches the cost of my entire house at the time. In the GTA, it can top $300,000."
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Hanif Bayat, PhD, CEO & founder of WOWA.ca, a Canadian personal finance platform analyzed for the Globe and Mail housing affordability in major cities across the USA and Canada. He compared typical Benchmark Home Prices, Median Incomes, Population and calculated the Affordability Ratio (Home Price divided by Income).
Vancouver and Toronto were at 1st and 3rd place in the top three most unaffordable cities, much of that driven of course by governments, fees, taxes and regulatory costs. These costs have only increased over the last decade as governments merely "talk" about addressing housing affordability issues as a hundred thousand jobs were lost in construction and real estate over the past year 2025. New housing isn't being built because the costs of construction are too high. Blame governments at all levels.
