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GST Guide for Social Housing Providers

The GST Guide for Social Housing Providers fits in the financial management section of the Housing Provider Kit. BC Housing produced this guide to help non-profit, co-operative and charitable housing providers understand how the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) applies to subsidized housing developments.


Click here to download the GST Guide for Social Housing Providers as a single PDF file. Please note that some PDF documents can take a few minutes to open.

The GST Guide for Social Housing Providers contains:

In this section, you’ll find forms and worksheets to help you obtain a business number, report GST, apply for GST input tax credits and rebates, and calculate GST owing on new buildings. Click here to go to the GST forms.

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