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Montreal tenant forced to pay his landlord’s taxes offers advice to other renters (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Tenant David Siscoe still owes more than $43,000 after being dunned by CRA for foreign landlord’s failure to pay

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[-] Vector@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

What a wild arrangement. I could be missing something, but from an outsider’s perspective it seems absolutely f***ing bonkers that the person who is making the payment is able to be held responsible for the tax component in any circumstance, rather than the person who is receiving the income.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 6 months ago

The only way this makes sense is as a punitive measure against foreign landlords, where the tenant (as the tax payer) gets some measure of ownership over the property, which doesn't seem to be the case.

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

That would make sense. This current thing is one of the dumbest, most citizen-hostile laws I have ever seen, and I am saying that stuck in the US.

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