The Airbnb Tax Nobody Knows About
You put your home on Airbnb.
The bookings are strong. The income is rolling in.
But according to CRA, your home may no longer be a home.
It may now be treated as commercial property – like a hotel.
And when you sell, you could owe $150,000 in unexpected tax.
Here is the breakdown:
🏠 How Airbnb can trigger CRA's "change of use" rules
⚖️ The 2024 court case where CRA successfully applied HST on sale
💰 How one homeowner could owe roughly $150,000 in HST alone
🚫 Why stopping Airbnb does not fix it — every exit triggers the same tax
📋 What you should do right now if you host on Airbnb
These rules were written 30+ years ago for hotels.
Nobody in government has updated them for Airbnb.
And Airbnb is not warning you.
