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How can I reduce taxes when selling my Saskatoon home?

For a genuine principal residence, the Canada Revenue Agency's principal residence exemption already removes the gain from tax, so there is nothing further to reduce on that sale beyond making sure the designation and the reporting on your return are done correctly, and the exemption applies regardless of where your Saskatoon home sits against the current $444,700 city benchmark.

If the property was ever a rental, a second home or only partly your principal residence, keeping records of capital improvements, a new roof, a permitted secondary suite, a rebuilt foundation, matters, because those costs raise your adjusted cost base and lower the taxable gain on the portion that isn't exempt.

Timing the sale across a tax year, or discussing the disposition with an accountant before you list rather than after an offer is accepted, gives you more options than trying to manage the number after the fact.

The City of Saskatoon's property assessment and any prorated tax adjustment at closing are separate from this question entirely and don't reduce a capital gain either way. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.

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