HST Assessments on House Flipping: A Growing Cause of Insolvency Author : stevewelker16.04.2026
A pattern I am seeing more and more often looks like this:
Someone buys a house.They renovate it.They sell it for a profit.
They believe the sale is tax-free because they lived there.
They do not charge HST.
Then, years later, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) reasses...