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Individual or legal entity You should not necessarily be a high-earning multinational executive operating in different countries before triggering a cross-border tax issue. When you are the sole owner and

Several clients who drive a company car, have recently been fined for about 509 EUR because they forgot to disclose the identity of the driver when paying an earlier traffic

When your tax bill arrives, you normally have two months’ time in Belgium to make a payment. This applies to both Personal and Corporate Income Tax, for both Resident (R)

Every Belgian taxpayer is required to file a tax return each year. This report is then used by the authorities to determine whether there is an additional amount due or

With the new expat status in place since early 2022, the conditions to be eligible have become much stricter. In other words, less people qualify for it. Those who benefit

Are you planning to acquire a new office space or warehouse, but are doubting to proceed due to rising mortgage rates? Are you convinced that crypto mining is still worth

If you live abroad, but you earned income from a Belgian source in 2021 (e.g. employee salary, statutory pension, rental income, etc.), the tax authorities might (spontaneously) send you a

If you make a living from selling your words to websites and publishers, the Belgian tax authorities will qualify those earnings as business income. This type of self-employment income is

On 26 February 2021, the Tax on Securities Accounts (TSA) was reintroduced after the previous version was abolished, as it was considered in violation of the Belgian Constitution. The new

We highlighted before that since 2020 Belgium had specific agreements in place with the Netherlands, Germany, France and Luxembourg that introduced so-called ‘COVID working days’. These agreements considered ‘forced home

As the cryptocurrency world went into full meltdown last week with the price of Bitcoin plunging to its lowest point since 2020, it is a given fact that more and

If you lived in Belgium in 2021 or you arrived in the country last year, you have probably received an online notification by now from the Belgian authorities that your

Grey area of tax law In Belgium, capital gains realized by a private individual are not taxable if they are realized within the ‘normal management of their privately held assets’

As announced before, from income year 2021 (tax year 2022) onwards, Belgian tax residents who own real estate abroad are required to provide detailed information to the authorities about their

Due to the pandemic these past two years, most employees were not allowed to cross the border and were forced to work from home. Employees could no longer work in

In 2017, the income tax benefit for the home mortgage loan (‘housing bonus’) in the Brussels-Capital Region was abolished and replaced by an increased transfer tax exemption. When you buy

The AIJA Tax Law Commission is excited to welcome lawyers and in-house counsel to the Annual Tax Conference in the beautiful city of Cascais (Portugal), on 10, 11 and 12 March 2022.

Investors looking to secure some of their long-term crypto gains might experience difficulties when transferring their earnings to a Belgian bank account. According to recent media reports, tax advisors and