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More than 2,000 residential properties went undeclared, have been deemed unoccupied and will be taxed under Vancouver’s empty homes tax.

Assuming that each property is worth about $1 million — many of them are condos — that would raise about $21 million in tax revenue for the city.

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The city had extended its declaration deadline to March 5, to allow homeowners extra time to declare whether their property was occupied or unoccupied during 2017.

According to the results provided on Wednesday, a total of 183,911 property status declarations were submitted, representing more than 98 per cent of the city’s homeowners.

Of those, a total of 177,562 were occupied either by an owner or a tenant. A total of 6,349 were either declared vacant by the owner or claimed an exemption — and many of them could also end up being taxed. The city did not indicate how many of those would end up being subject to the tax and did not offer a breakdown of the two categories.