Economist pleased to see measures he proposed included in B.C. speculation tax

They changed the name of the tax, but UBC economist Tom Davidoff was pleased to see the measure he helped devise largely adopted in the B.C. government’s speculation tax.

Davidoff was one of three lead authors who, in 2016, proposed a a 1.5 per cent surcharge on Lower Mainland homes whose owners don’t pay income tax in the province and called it the B.C. Housing Affordability Fund.

“I was very happy to see that the speculation tax as it was defined in the budget sounded a lot like what