Tax ultimatum for second home owners

Rather than benefit the working majority, a mansion tax could, in fact, do the opposite, says Tony Hennessey... Imagine for a moment that it is June 2015.

Owners to sacrifice the money they unfairly paid on their mortgages to bailout the country's ailing banks

The British Columbia Government in Canada has rubber-stamped a 15% levy on foreign buyers of Vancouver property, in a bid to thwart spiralling house prices - but it's given the industry just eight days'…