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.
  • PizzasDontWearCapes
    101·
    1 year ago

    He applied twice (1997 and 2015) and was denied before being accepted in 2020.

    The article doesn’t explain why he was denied

    • phx@lemmy.ca
      16·
      1 year 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