Iranian refugee who bought $6.6M home in West Vancouver fails to convince judge foreign buyers' tax is unconstitutional
bc.ctvnews.ca
An Iranian refugee who has lived in British Columbia since 1995 but did not receive permanent resident status until last year has had his challenge to the constitutionality of the province's foreign buyers' tax rejected by the B.C. Supreme Court.
  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    He didn’t even purchase it as himself but rather

    Bakhtiari made the purchase through his company, Technocorp Venture Capital Inc., of which he is the sole shareholder

    So it also sounds like an active attempt to dodge taxes