Capital gains when selling property to family + MORE Mar 18th

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Do I have to pay income tax if I inherited a property jointly with my sister and she bought me out for less than half the appraised value of the property?
—Johanna
Capital gains and transferring property between family
Asset sales between family members can be tricky to facilitate at a family level, let alone from a tax perspective. There are tax implications to be aware of here, Johanna.
First, a primer on how capital gains tax works. For real estate, it’s based on the sale price, minus the selling costs, capital improvements made to the property, and your adjusted cost base (ACB) or acquisition cost.
Also, it’s important to know that 50% of a capital gain is taxable and is added to your other sources of income for the tax year. A large capital gain—for example, on a piece of real estate—can easily push you into a higher tax bracket.
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What qualifies as a principal residence and other exemptions
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Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.

The Fed moves, just a scooch  

On Wednesday of this week, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Power made the move on rates. The Federal Open Market Committee raised U.S. overnight interest rates by 0.25% to 0.50%, its first rate hike since December 2018.  

Source: S&P Global 

Central bankers embarked on what may turn out to be a lengthy and difficult challenge to wrestle inflation to the ground. Earlier this month, the Bank of Canada also increased the overnight rate from 0.25% to 0.5%. 

Financial analysts expect both central banks to raise borrowing costs several times this year and next. The Fed board is predicting six rate hikes in the U.S. in 2022. If each rate hike is 0.25% that would put the overnight rate at 2.25%. There is the possibility of a 0.5% rate hike thrown into the mix. 

Here is the “everything you need to know” about rate hikes history…