Purchasing this asset in a self-directed IRA or 401k could allow you to shelter the income from taxation and you could avoid the UBIT tax on a "flip" by holding the property as a rental before selling and realizing the appreciation.

Talk about taxation without representation.

Big gov-mint realizes they can just keep spending money and can use dollar devaluation as a failsafe if they can’t confiscate the money from income or any other form of taxation.

You have been extremely helpful on other post gathering a ton of info for which I thank you ( thank you Mike).Now it's time to go there and see and visit a few locations and developments, compare and hopefully decide.Now, I haven't been able to find reliable information about taxation on rentals for non residents or alternative channels for the investments.Alm I read is that , as a a non resident individual, rental incomes are taxes at 25% with no possible deduction. 

However financing, regulation and taxation are sufficiently different that the present tools cannot provide you an accurate modelling of Canadian properties.

Heavier taxation on passive income than earned income?

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This principle of land valuation tied to its improvement using a simple formula (as the basis), that is the ratio of the dollar depreciation per square footage as one indicator to determine what is speculative and what is not, can then be used for property taxation basis.

I know quite a bit about cross border taxation, but not enough to call myself a specialist in it (yet).  

If one decides to reside in one of the units for 2 years prior to selling will the $500k exclusion take place and gains taxation would only be imposed on a selling price of $600k or higher?