Principal Residence Exemptions #42
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By Gerry NeelyB.A. LL.B. In the first case, the question was whether or not the sale of 9.3 acres made by the taxpayers under threat of expropriation by a municipality, leaving 7/10ths of an acre upon which the taxpayers’ house was situated, was exempt from taxation as falling within the principal residence exemption. Fourteen years …