特鲁多“自住房增征税50%的秘密计划”
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自于多伦多Spadina-Fort York选区自由党国会议员Adam Vaughan于去年11月提交给安省自由党党团的一份“政策建议”报告。
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报告中针对高房价为2019年大选政纲征求意见。Vaughan提到一项打击炒房和投机客的建议，即对出售自住房的增值获利部分征税：如果自住房在持有一年后出售，税率为50%；
两年后出售，税率为25%；
三年后出售，税率为15%；
四年后出售，税率为10%；
五年后出售，税率为5%。
而目前，加拿大人自住房出售后的资本增值，无需缴税。
Vaughan曾参与全国各地的市政厅市民公开咨询，并称这一建议是来自公开咨询会。
“自住房增征税50%的秘密计划”被认为是“特鲁多的秘密议程”，目的是为了支付他的“巨额赤字”。
Another idea that emerges from the housing town hall...
这就是个idea，离platform差得远呢
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The claim: Justin Trudeau has a "secret plan to implement a tax on up to 50% of the profits on the sale of your home."
-- The Conservatives repeat a claim they have been making for weeks, via a new attack website, hiddenhometax.ca
The facts: In late August, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer sent party supporters a "Dear friend" missive on his official House of Commons letterhead, making the claim that the Liberals intend to introduce a capital gains tax on the sale of primary residences.
As it stands, Canada is one of a handful of Western nations, along with Denmark, France, Finland, the U.K. and Portugal, that exempts profits made on the sale of a principal residence from capital gains levies. In contrast, the United States partially taxes such gains, offering an exclusion of $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for married couples who file a joint return, then taxing the remainder at a rate of 20 per cent.
Scheer's letter — which is now being circulated at the riding level on Conservative Party letterhead as campaign literature — warns of "an alarming proposal that has leaked from inside Justin Trudeau's government," saying that its source was Toronto MP Adam Vaughan, the Liberal's special advisor on housing and urban affairs. It details a "sliding scale" of capital gains tax on home sales — 50 per cent after one year of ownership, 25 per cent after two years, 15 per cent after 3 years, 10 per cent after 4 years, and 5 per cent after five.
Internal document cited
To back up their claim, the Conservatives have been sharing an internal Liberal party policy proposal on housing, prepared in the fall of 2018. It does indeed mention the capital gains tax, saying it is an "idea that has emerged from housing town halls."
When the Tories launched their attack website on Wednesday, they initially posted an edited version of the document, which appeared to suggest that it was Vaughan's own proposal, rather than a submission from the entire Ontario caucus. After complaints from the Liberals, and enquiries from the media, the Conservatives replaced the altered image with a picture that shows the actual attribution.
The Liberal Ontario caucus document that the Conservatives have been circulating on social media and a new website cut off and condensed the original document, and obscured the footer information that showed it to be an Ontario caucus submission. (Conservative website)
The Conservatives later altered the document on their hiddenhometax website so the footer information, including the words "ON Caucus Submission" were no longer obscured. (Conservative website)
Still, the attack site only shares the first page of the Liberal policy proposal, which was made as the party began the process of drafting its election platform. A copy obtained by CBC News's Katie Simpson provides more context. It shows that the capital gains tax was being proposed as part of a broader suite of possible measures aimed at making housing more affordable, including tax-free down payment savings accounts, replacing national stress test and mortgage rules with regional ones, and no-interest loans for 'green' renovations. And that all of the ideas were positioned simply as "areas to explore," rather than written-in-stone recommendations.
Overall, the Ontario caucus rated housing affordability as its second-most important issue, behind only national pharmacare. A levy on sugar-sweetened beverages was ranked 18th, while a proposal to help create a network of environmentally sustainable trails through Toronto's ravines, came last at 19th.
So, what evidence is there of such a plan?
No evidence
In a word, none.
The proposal isn't part of the Liberal platform, although the party is promising additional steps to help with housing by enhancing the existing first time home-buyer incentive and by levying a new, one per cent anti-speculation tax on real estate owned by non-resident foreigners.
Nor is there any mention of changes to capital gains in the Liberals' costing. Some Conservative partisans have suggested that the measure is buried in a line about "new tax expenditure and government spending review," which promises an additional $2 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2020-21, growing to $3 billion by 2023-24. But the platform details six changes under that heading, including an enhanced whistle-blower program, closing corporate tax loopholes, and a 10 per cent luxury tax on cars, boats and aircraft, again giving no hint of any planned changes to home sales.
Then there's the fact that the Liberals, from Trudeau on down, flatly deny that they have any intention of changing the tax rules on primary residences.
"To be perfectly clear. Again. It's not in our platform," Adam Vaughan posted this week on his website. "We've never considered it. It's not something the party has endorsed. It's not something the party will endorse. It won't happen after we're re-elected. Period."
Of course, it's possible that the Liberals really do have a "secret" agenda when it comes to capital gains. But if so, firmly and repeatedly denying it seems like a stupid-verging-on-suicidal political strategy. Not only would the measure be unpopular with a large segment of Canadian voters, many of whom are counting on the value of their home to finance their retirement. The bait-and-switch would certainly shred the party's credibility heading into the next election, and possibly beyond.
The verdict: False. The Conservatives are continuing to advance their capital gains claim without evidence and in the face of firm denials. And the policy proposal they are citing was clearly aimed at speculators who flip properties after owning them for less than five years.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/th...-about-a-secret-liberal-housing-tax-1.5312873
