DC Passes Tax for Co-ops
Yesterday, the DC City Council passed the measure to tax co-ops that we wrote about earlier this week. The “economic interest tax” will apply a transaction fee for both parties (buyer and seller) in the sale of a co-op unit. For sales under $400,000, that fee will be 1.1 percent and 1.45 percent for any property above $400,000.
The measure was part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Support Act of 2009. It will go into effect next year. As we noted in our earlier post, co-ops are attractive options to prospective buyers in DC specifically because these types of taxes were not imposed. (This is because the sale of a co-op unit is not a transfer in title like most properties, but rather a transfer of an “economic interest.”)
We will update this post as we receive more information about the new tax.
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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/dc_passes_tax_for_co-ops/984.
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