Big White, Canada Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place at Big White and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that you've picked one of the friendliest corners of British Columbia to try it in. Big White Ski Resort sits in unincorporated Electoral Area 'E' of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, about an hour's drive up the hill from Kelowna, and the province has written the resort into its short-term rental regulation as exempt land. That one line means the rule that boxes in hosts nearly everywhere else in B.C., the one saying you can only rent out the home you actually live in, doesn't reach you here at all.

There's a catch, though, and it isn't the one most owners expect. You still register every unit with the province each year, and if you don't live there, that costs $450 rather than $100. The regional district asks for nothing on top of that, no business licence and no local permit, which makes the government paperwork lighter here than in almost any BC market worth investing in. Yet the body that can actually stop you is probably in your own building, since Big White is mostly strata-titled condos and townhomes, and a strata can vote to ban nightly rentals whatever the province says.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly in 2026: who governs the mountain, what registering with British Columbia costs and asks of you, the three taxes stacked on every booking, how enforcement works when there's no local bylaw officer to call, and who to contact when your situation doesn't fit the pattern. Every figure below comes from the province's own statutes and pages or from the regional district's, and where I couldn't confirm something, I've said so rather than guessed. Once the rules are clear, run the unit through BNBCalc before you commit to anything.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Big White, British Columbia?

Before any of that paperwork makes sense, you need to know who writes the rules up here, and the honest answer catches most owners off guard. Big White isn't a city or a town, so there's no council, no mayor and no city hall to deal with.

The mountain sits inside Electoral Area 'E' of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary instead, a rural local government headquartered in Trail, roughly 150 kilometres away over the Monashees. You can read that off the zoning bylaw's own first page, since Big White Zoning Bylaw No. 1166 applies to "the defined portion of Electoral Area 'E' (Big White)".

That matters because the district has taken a hands-off position and put it in writing. Its short-term rentals page says a business licence "is not required" to operate a short-term rental in any of its electoral areas, and that it isn't opting in to the provincial principal residence rules. It also says, in as many words, that it "does not distinguish between a short-term rental and long-term rental of a residential unit".

Staff read the zoning bylaws the way they always have, so a home there "can be offered for rent on a nightly, weekly or monthly basis". As far as they're concerned, a nightly booking and a year-long lease are the same thing.

I went through the full text of Bylaw 1166 to check that, and the silence is genuine rather than an oversight in somebody's summary. Across roughly 17,000 words the bylaw never once uses the phrase short-term rental, vacation rental or nightly rental. Not one mention.

What it regulates instead is old-fashioned land use: which buildings go where, how big they can be, how many parking stalls each unit needs. Renting your condo by the night isn't a category it recognises, which is why nobody at the district has a form for you to fill in.

Now, the bigger fact sits one level up, in provincial law. British Columbia's Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation prescribes a list of "exempt land" in Schedule 1, and item 2 of the ski resort table is Big White Ski Resort, tied to a boundary map dated 14 December 2023.

Landing on that list is what switches off the principal residence requirement, because section 14(1) of the Act only bites where the rental sits outside the exempt land. Big White gets there twice over, as it happens, since Schedule 1 exempts regional district electoral areas as a whole class too, naming five exceptions elsewhere in the province and none in Kootenay Boundary.

That exemption is unusually hard to lose, which is the part worth understanding before you buy. A local government can ask the province each year to have the rule applied to its own area. Section 10(1)(a) of the regulation, though, says such a request "may not include a request to remove" any geographic area listed in paragraphs (c) to (h) of Schedule 1, and Big White sits in paragraph (c).

So even if the regional district changed its mind and opted in Electoral Area 'E' tomorrow, the resort itself would stay exempt. Its own page says the same thing: "the regulations do not allow resort/ski areas and assessed farm land to be 'opted-in'".

Three things still limit you, and they're the ones people underestimate:

• Your strata. A strata corporation can pass a bylaw by 3/4 vote of owners that limits or bans short-term rentals in its building, and it can fine an owner up to $1,000 a day for breaking it. Provincial permission doesn't override that, so read the bylaws before you read anything else.
• How the unit was built. Where a dwelling went up without a building permit, or a shed or storage space was converted into one, the regional district requires a permit retroactively before the space can be used as a rental "or for habitation of any kind", and it has to satisfy the zone's density rules too.
• Bed and breakfast use, if that's your plan. Section 311 of Bylaw 1166 caps bed and breakfast or boarding use at four bedrooms or sleeping units inside one building per parcel, which is a real ceiling if you were thinking of running rooms rather than whole units.

One more piece of provincial law closes an escape route that used to exist. Under section 36 of the Act, the usual protection for a legal non-conforming use no longer applies to short-term rentals anywhere in B.C. Grandfathering is gone.

So if a local government ever does regulate up here, an existing operation gets no shelter from having started first.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirement in Big White

Since the regional district issues no licence at all, the only permission you have to hold is the provincial one, and that's the piece hosts most often get wrong at an exempt-land resort. Being outside the principal residence rule isn't being outside the registry.

Section 6(1) of the Act requires that a short-term rental offer "must be registered", full stop, and section 13 requires the valid registration number to appear on the offer itself, alongside a business licence number where the local government asks for one. At Big White there's no business licence to show, so the provincial number is the whole of it. One number, one listing.

Being exempt is also what makes registering expensive, though, and the gap between the two tiers is wider than owners expect. As of July 2026, section 4.6(1) of the regulation prescribes $100 where the rental is in the property host's own principal residence and $450 where it isn't, and the province's host registration page adds a $1.50 service fee to each.

A ski condo you visit for three weeks a year isn't your principal residence, so most owners here land in the $450 band, which the province describes as covering "secondary properties in areas without principal residence requirements". The exemption that lets you operate is the same fact that prices you into the higher tier, and the difference is $350 every year.

What you register	Annual fee	Applies at Big White to
A rental in the home you live in	$100 plus $1.50	An owner living on the mountain renting a spare room or the whole place while away
A rental in a property you don't live in	$450 plus $1.50	Almost every investor-owned condo, townhome and chalet
A strata hotel unit listed on a third-party platform	$450 plus $1.50	Condo-hotel units advertised on Airbnb or Vrbo rather than only through the building's own booking system

Each unit registers separately, and a registration runs for a year. The renewal window opens 40 days before expiry, so make sure you diarise that date rather than trusting a reminder email to reach whatever address you signed up with.

What the province asks for is paperwork rather than proof of anything hard: the property's parcel identifier, the number of bedrooms, the ownership type, and the host's name, contact details, social insurance number and date of birth, plus your co-host or property manager if you use one.

A handful of properties on the hill escape registration entirely, and it's worth knowing which, because guessing wrong is expensive. Bookings longer than 90 days aren't short-term rentals under the scheme at all. Strata corporation guest suites are out, as is seasonal accommodation "not equipped or suitable for residence year-round".

The trickiest carve-out is section 3.1, which says a unit in a strata-titled hotel or motel needs no registration where the offer is made only on that hotel's own platform. List the same unit on Airbnb or Vrbo, though, and the requirement snaps straight back on. Plenty of Big White inventory sits in exactly that grey zone, moving between the resort's booking system and the big platforms, so do check which side of the line your listing is on before a season starts.

Big White Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get registered and are able to start taking bookings, there's still tax to sort out, and three layers stack on a single Big White night. Two are provincial, one is federal, and in the ordinary case where you book through a major platform, none of them arrives as a bill you pay yourself.

None of that makes the tax somebody else's problem, mind you, because the liability stays with you where a platform is working from bad information you gave it.

Charge	Rate	Who collects it
Provincial sales tax on accommodation	8%	Airbnb, Vrbo and other registered marketplace facilitators, or you on direct bookings
Municipal and Regional District Tax	3%	The same facilitators, and it funds Tourism Big White Society
Goods and Services Tax	5%	The platform where you aren't GST registered, otherwise you

Provincial Sales Tax (PST)

The province's accommodation tax page sets PST at 8% "on sales of short-term accommodation provided in B.C., unless a specific exemption applies". It then puts the collecting job on online marketplace facilitators, which have to register and hand over both the PST and the MRDT on anything sold through their platform.

Three exemptions are worth carrying in your head. A stay of 27 continuous days or more by the same person drops out. So does a unit charging $30 or less per day, which no ski condo is going to hit. Then there's the small-host exemption, for gross accommodation revenue under $2,500 across both the previous and the coming twelve months, though that one won't help you where the listing sits on a marketplace, since the facilitator collects regardless.

Municipal and Regional District Tax (MRDT)

The MRDT rate is the number most guidance about Big White gets wrong, so it's worth being precise. The Designated Accommodation Area Tax Regulation, in the consolidation current to 11 August 2026, sets the rate for the Big White Ski Resort controlled recreation area at 3%, with Tourism Big White Society as the designated recipient and a repeal date of 1 July 2028.

The surrounding area is a separate designation at 2%, covering Kootenay Boundary Electoral Areas C, D and E along with Grand Forks, Greenwood and Midway, except that the regulation defines that area to exclude "the Big White Ski Resort" by name. Two adjacent entries, two different rates. That's how 2% ends up attached to the resort in guidance that never opened the regulation itself.

The money is meant to fund tourism marketing where the booking happened, and getting it to the right place has been a running headache on this mountain. Big White has no postal code at all, because Canada Post told the resort it would need an actual post office to qualify for one and there's no commercially viable space for it up there.

Castanet reported in July 2023 that Airbnb listings are therefore often shown as Beaverdell, nearly an hour down Highway 33, and that the resort clawed back "just over $300,000" after catching one platform sending Big White's MRDT somewhere else. Senior vice president Michael J Ballingall summed the wider problem up: "If you can't do it on your iPhone, in my world of tourism, it doesn't get done."

Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Federal GST runs at 5% in British Columbia. The CRA's platform-based accommodation guidance then hands the collecting to the platform wherever the host isn't registered, because an operator facilitating supplies "made by suppliers who are not registered for the GST/HST" has to charge and collect the tax itself. Register yourself, though, and that duty comes straight back to you, including on the bookings a platform handled.

Whether you have to register at all turns on the small supplier test, which the CRA's threshold page sets at revenues exceeding $30,000 over any 12-month period. A couple of well-booked units will cross that, and because the test rolls rather than resetting each January, keep an eye on the running total instead of checking once a year.

Income Tax

Rental income is ordinary income, reported to the Canada Revenue Agency like any other. What changed in 2024, and what turns registration from a chore into the whole ballgame, is section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act.

It denies deductions for what it calls a "non-compliant short-term rental". The definition covers a rental in any province or municipality that either doesn't allow it at all, or that "requires registration, a licence or a permit to operate the short-term rental" where the rental doesn't hold one. British Columbia requires registration. So every unregistered Big White host sits inside that definition, whatever the local rules say.

The denial isn't all-or-nothing either, and the arithmetic is worth walking through once. Take your otherwise-deductible expenses, multiply by the days the property was non-compliant, then divide by the days it was a short-term rental at all. Rent for 120 nights, spend 40 of them without a valid registration, and a third of that year's deductions on the property disappears.

Keep in mind that the Act's definition here is anything "rented or offered for rent for a period of less than 90 consecutive days", which is wider than the provincial scheme and catches offers as well as bookings.

Possible Deductions and Write-Offs

Assuming you stay registered, the ordinary deductions still apply, and at Big White they add up faster than they do in most markets. Strata fees, insurance, utilities, property management or co-hosting fees, cleaning between guests, repairs, platform commission, mortgage interest and the annual $450 registration fee are all costs of earning the income.

Capital cost allowance on furnishings and appliances is available too. Claiming it on the building itself, though, is a decision to take with an accountant rather than a spreadsheet, because of what it does to you when you sell.

Splitting personal use from rental use is where ski-condo owners trip. Most owners ski the place themselves for part of the season, and personal nights aren't deductible, so the habit worth building is a night-by-night calendar separating guest nights, owner nights and vacant-but-available nights.

Don't forget that section 67.7 sits on top of every line of that. Registration isn't only about staying on Airbnb, since it's also the thing deciding whether the whole deduction column survives a review.

British Columbia Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Those tax rules are federal and provincial, and since the same is true of nearly everything else governing you here, the provincial framework deserves a look in its own right. The Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act arrived in the autumn of 2023 and, by the province's own account in an April 2026 news release, "has been fully implemented since June 2025".

Three pillars carry it: a principal residence requirement in more than 60 communities with populations over 10,000, a provincial registry that every host and platform must join, and the end of legal non-conforming use protection.

Only the registry reaches Big White, and it reached hard. Hosts had to register and display a valid number by 1 May 2025, after which enforcement moved onto the platforms themselves.

A provincial bulletin from 30 April 2025 set the dates, and they came in two steps. From 2 June 2025, a platform showing a listing without a valid registration number "must stop advertising the listing and prevent new bookings", and then from 23 June 2025 it had to cancel all future bookings from hosts without one. By that point more than 20,000 listings had registered, against an estimated 28,000 across the province when the legislation was introduced.

Whether the principal residence requirement lands on you comes down entirely to the address, and the province's list of communities is current as of 1 June 2026. Mountain resorts and regional district electoral areas are exempt categories, which is why Big White appears nowhere on it.

Elsewhere in the interior and the Fraser Valley the picture splits sharply, and that split is the single biggest driver of what a unit is worth as a rental:

• Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Maple Ridge sit outside the exempt land in Schedule 1 and are named as large municipalities in Schedule 2, so the principal residence rule applies and you can't run a whole unit you don't live in. If you're comparing the valley against the hill, Chilliwack's short-term rental rules and Maple Ridge's short-term rental rules show what that constraint looks like in practice.
• Merritt and Hope are named in Schedule 1(a) of the same regulation, so they're exempt from the principal residence rule as Big White is. They're municipalities, though, which means a local business licence and local bylaws on top of the provincial layer. Merritt's short-term rental rules set out what that extra municipal tier involves.

The opt-in and opt-out machinery moved in 2026 as well, and it tells you which way the province is leaning. A community with a rental vacancy rate of 3% or more for two consecutive years can ask to have the requirement lifted. From 2027 that request shifts from a 31 March deadline and a 1 November effective date to 28 February and 1 June, which lets a town free up inventory before the summer rather than after it.

Kelowna got that timeline a year early, by special one-time regulation, and dropped the principal residence requirement from 1 June 2026 for tourism-zoned buildings in its downtown core. Big White's nearest city loosening up is worth watching. It changes what a Kelowna weekend costs, and therefore what the hill is competing against.

Does Big White Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Enforcement follows from that structure, and it works nothing like a city's. There's no local licence to pull, no bylaw officer driving the village looking for lockboxes, and no complaint line at a city hall, for the plain reason that no city hall exists.

What replaced all that runs at the listing and at the payment instead, which is both quieter and much harder to ignore. No inspector is coming.

The Compliance and Enforcement Unit, inside the Short-Term Rental Branch at the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs, runs it with six tools: education, investigations, compliance orders, administrative monetary penalties, injunctions and published compliance decisions. The penalty maximums sit in Schedule 4 of the regulation and escalate on repeat, which is the design worth noticing:

• Failing to register a short-term rental offer: $5,000, then $7,500, then $10,000.
• Contravening the principal residence requirement, where it applies: $5,000, then $7,500, then $10,000.
• Leaving a valid registration number off a listing: $500, then $750, then $1,000.
• Providing false or misleading information in relation to registration: $5,000, then $7,500, then $10,000.
• For a platform, failing to confirm the validity of a registration number: $10,000, then $15,000, then $20,000.

Read that last line against the others and the mechanism gets clear. The province aimed its largest single penalty at the platform rather than the host, which is why Airbnb and Vrbo now check your number instead of taking your word for it. An unregistered Big White listing doesn't get a warning letter and a chance to argue. It goes dark, and its future bookings get cancelled.

Two other enforcers sit outside that system entirely. Your strata can fine up to $1,000 a day for breaking a short-term rental bylaw, which over a Christmas fortnight outruns most provincial penalties, and it needs nobody's permission to start.

The Canada Revenue Agency is the quiet one. Section 67.7 turns a lapsed registration into a lost deduction, and unlike a fine, that lands long after the season is over, in a reassessment.

The regional district's own bylaw does carry a penalty, for completeness. Section 204 of Bylaw 1166 makes any violation liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than $2,000 plus costs, with each day treated as a separate offence.

Since that bylaw says nothing about how long a stay lasts, the clause still bites on building without a permit or using land outside its zone, and never on listing your condo. It's the retroactive-permit problem it would catch, so be aware of it where any part of your unit got finished without an inspection.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Big White

Given how much of that enforcement runs through documents rather than inspectors, the order you do things in matters more than it looks. Two of the steps below can end the plan outright, and both are cheap to check. Do them first.

1. Read the strata bylaws before you make an offer. Ask the seller or the strata manager for the registered bylaws, not a summary, and look for a rental or occupancy restriction and the fine attached to it. This is the one true veto at Big White, and it varies building by building along the same street.
2. Confirm the unit is legal as built. Any converted space, lock-off suite or added bedroom needs to have been permitted. Where it wasn't, the regional district requires the permit retroactively before the unit can be rented or lived in, and that can mean opening walls.
3. Work out which registration tier you're in. A property you don't live in costs $450 a year plus the $1.50 fee, while owner-occupied is $100. Budget for the higher one unless the mountain is genuinely your home.
4. Gather what the registry asks for. Parcel identifier, bedroom count, ownership type, your social insurance number and date of birth, plus your co-host or property manager's details. Registration is per unit, so two condos means two applications.
5. Register with the province and put the number on every listing. Section 13 requires it on the offer itself, and platforms validate it. A listing without a valid number gets pulled and its forward bookings cancelled.
6. Check how tax will actually be collected on your bookings. Marketplace facilitators handle the 8% PST and 3% MRDT, and GST too where you aren't registered. Remember to read an actual payout statement in your first month rather than assuming, especially if you also take direct bookings, because those are yours to collect and pay over yourself.
7. Set up the books before the first guest, not in April. Separate guest nights from owner nights on a calendar, keep every invoice, and watch the $30,000 rolling figure that pulls you into GST registration.
8. Put the renewal in your calendar. The window opens 40 days before expiry, and the cost of missing it is the listing going dark mid-season plus a pro-rated hit to your deductions under section 67.7.

Who to Contact in Big White about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Working through those steps, you'll hit questions no webpage answers, and knowing which office owns which one saves a genuinely irritating amount of time on hold. Three bodies split the work between them, and not one of them sits on the mountain.

Zoning, building permits and bylaw questions

The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary handles land use, building inspection and bylaw enforcement for Big White out of its Trail office. Planning is the department to call about whether a unit is legal as built or how a zone treats a proposed change.

• Address: 202-843 Rossland Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 4S8
• Planning and Development: 250.368.0241, or [email protected], which is the desk that answers zoning and land-use questions
• Building Inspection: 250.368.0222 in Trail, or 250.442.2708 at the Grand Forks office
• General enquiries: 250.368.9148, toll free 1.800.355.7352, [email protected]
• Bylaw enforcement sits inside Planning and Development and answers on the same number

The regional district publishes phone, fax and email by department but posts no opening hours anywhere I could find, so I won't invent any. Its planning department also invites written comments on short-term rental policy at that same address, which is the channel that matters if you'd rather shape the next zoning review than react to it.

Provincial registration, renewals and enforcement

Registration, renewal, exemption questions and anything to do with the Compliance and Enforcement Unit run through ServiceBC on behalf of the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs.

• Phone: 1-833-828-2240, toll free, with help available in 140 languages
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 5:00 pm
• Register or renew: through the provincial short-term rental registry

Provincial sales tax and MRDT

PST and MRDT questions, including whether you need to register to collect on direct bookings, belong to the Ministry of Finance rather than to the housing ministry.

• Phone: 1-877-388-4440 toll free, or 1-250-410-0373
• Email: [email protected]
• Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, per the province's PST pages

For emergencies rather than paperwork, the Big White Fire Department is a district service based on the mountain itself, at 7555 Porcupine Road, and the number listed for it is 250.765.3090. Worth having in your guest welcome book alongside the strata's after-hours number.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Big White on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those offices answer procedural questions well enough. The harder one, whether any of this is stable, is something owners argue about rather than look up, and the evidence deserves a caveat before anything else. Reddit blocks automated access, and repeated searching turned up no Big White thread on BiggerPockets I could open and read.

So nothing below is a survey. It's my read of the public record instead, which on this mountain is unusually well documented for a place with no local government of its own.

The loudest recurring theme isn't regulation at all. It's plumbing, in the administrative sense. The postal code problem Castanet documented in 2023 shapes a hosting week more than any bylaw does: listings that geo-tag to Beaverdell, couriers that won't deliver, guests who drive to the wrong valley, and tourism tax landing in the wrong community until somebody checked.

Ballingall also told the outlet that short-term rental listings at Big White had doubled in three years, as owners moved off central reservations and onto the platforms themselves, which is roughly when that misdirected tax surfaced. That's the texture of hosting up here, where the rules are permissive but the infrastructure around them is thin.

Then there's the friction with the regional district, which is the second theme and is equally well documented. The district moved the Big White transfer station from 24/7 self-serve to staffed hours with limited opening, and Chamber of Commerce president Richard Berrie told Castanet in February 2024 that the change would be "crippling" for accommodation-based businesses.

He added that residents and businesses were "actively coming together to look at the option of changing to a different regional district", which is about as strong as a chamber of commerce gets in print. Turnover housekeeping makes a lot of garbage. A resort with hundreds of rental units and no municipal collection notices a change in dump hours the same week.

The third theme is the one I'd want a buyer to hear loudest, and it barely gets discussed as regulation because it isn't regulation. Owners talk about the province, and the province has already exempted them. Meanwhile the decision that settles whether a given condo can be rented at all sits with a strata council of neighbours, some of whom bought to ski rather than to run a business.

That vote can move in a way the regulation cannot. Watch out for a building where the rental-friendly majority looks thin, because a 3/4 vote is a smaller mountain to climb than it sounds once a few units change hands.

Put those three together and Big White reads as a permissive market carrying concentrated local risk, which is a different animal from a restrictive market with predictable rules. The usual screening question, is it legal here, has already been answered yes, so the real work moves to the building, the strata and the season. For the demand side of that picture, Canada's short-term rental markets show how a resort like this one prices against the cities.

There's a general lesson in that, and it travels well beyond one mountain. Wherever a government steps back, somebody smaller steps in, and the rules that end up governing your money are the ones written by the people closest to your front door.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Big White in 2026?

Yes. British Columbia's Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation names Big White Ski Resort as exempt land, so the province's principal residence requirement doesn't apply and you can rent out a unit you don't live in. The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary requires no business licence and its zoning bylaw is silent on rental duration. You do need a valid provincial registration number displayed on every listing, and your strata bylaws can still prohibit nightly rentals.

How much does it cost to register a short-term rental at Big White?

The provincial registration fee is $100 a year plus a $1.50 service fee where the rental is in your own principal residence, and $450 a year plus $1.50 where it isn't. Most Big White units fall in the $450 band, because they're secondary properties in an area without a principal residence requirement. Each unit registers separately, registration lasts one year, and the renewal window opens 40 days before expiry.

What taxes apply to a Big White short-term rental?

Three. Provincial sales tax at 8% on accommodation, a Municipal and Regional District Tax at 3% whose designated recipient is Tourism Big White Society, and federal GST at 5%. Registered online marketplace facilitators such as Airbnb collect the PST and MRDT, and collect GST for hosts who aren't GST registered. Stays of 27 continuous days or more are exempt from PST and MRDT. Direct bookings are yours to handle yourself.

Does British Columbia's principal residence requirement apply at Big White?

No. Big White Ski Resort is listed in Schedule 1(c) of the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation as a regional or destination ski resort, and regional district electoral areas are exempt as a class as well. The exemption is also unusually secure, because section 10(1)(a) of that regulation prevents a local government from requesting the removal of a Schedule 1(c) ski resort from the exempt land.

What happens if you rent at Big White without registering?

Platforms must stop advertising a listing without a valid registration number and cancel its future bookings, so the practical penalty is losing your distribution mid-season. The province can also impose an administrative penalty of up to $5,000 for a first failure to register, rising to $7,500 and then $10,000. On top of that, section 67.7 of the Income Tax Act denies a proportional share of your rental deductions for every day the property was non-compliant.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.