Thursday, December 13, 2012

BC: Property Transfer Tax Stats

Taxpayers.com  By: Jordan Bateman  Posted: December 13, 2012

Ever wonder what property classifications bring in the most Property Transfer Tax for the B.C. government? Not surprisingly, it's single family residential, which brought in more than half ($542.1 million) of the $927.1 million collected in PTT last year.
PTT Revenue, by year:
2006/07 - $900.1 million
2007/08 - $1.05 billion
2008/09 - $703 million
2009/10 - $866.8 million
2010/11 - $840.3 million
2011/12 - $927.1 million

The CTF filed a Freedom of Information request with the B.C. government to get a detailed look at PTT paid by property class over the past six years:

As for number of transactions:

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