Archive for the 'Personal Tax' Category
Monday, January 15th, 2007
1. Introduction
On June 19th 2006, the Belgian Minister of Finance Reynders and Ho Hau Wah, Chief Executive of Macao signed a double taxation agreement (DTA) between Belgium and Macao. The Agreement, which is based on the OECD Model Convention with respect to taxes on income and on capital, is the third of its kind concluded […]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Opinion of Advocate General, 3 October 2006, Case C-522/04, Commission of the European Communities v. Kingdom of Belgium
In his opinion of today, Advocate General STIX-HACKL has concluded that a number of Belgian tax provisions relating to life insurance contracts are contrary to EC law. The Belgian tax provisions include:
Article 59 of the BITC (Belgian Income […]
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
The European Commission has recently sent four (4!) formal requests to the Belgian government in order to end various kinds of discriminatory tax treatment.
Flemish Registration Duties
The first request relates to Article 61/3 of the Flemish Registration Duties Code, according to which a certain amount of the registration duties paid previously on the purchase of a […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
The Belgian tax authorities have issued a new administrative circular letter regarding lump-sum allowances for business expenses incurred abroad. This circular letter of 11 May 2006 adresses the scope of application of such allowances and is applicable with immediate effect.
Allowances given by an employer to his employee to cover foreign business travel expenses are costs […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
In its circular of 11 May 2006 the Belgian tax administration issued new guidelines regarding the exemption from income taxes with respect to foreign source income.
These guidelines introduce more formal requirements to obtain the exemption for foreign earned income. Except for income from real estate, the mere reporting of the foreign earned income on the […]
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
De overheid heeft een erg duidelijke site waar iedereen die wat meer wil weten over de Belgische belastingen zijn hartje kan ophalen.
Zeker in deze tijden van examens een nuttig hulpmiddel bij het instuderen van een vak “Fiscaal recht”.
http://internet-observatory.be/enterprises/vademecum/TocIb_nl.htm
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
In Het Nieuwsblad van donderdag 1 juni verscheen een artikel waarin op eenvoudige wijze 10 tips worden gegeven bij het invullen van de aangifte in de personenbelasting waardoor u minder belastingen zou betalen. Klik op de volgende link om dit overzicht te bekijken:
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/GT/Index.aspx?genericID=143&articleID=GGRSVH32
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
A reference for a preliminary ruling to the ECJ by the Hasselt Court of First Instance concerning the Flemish exemption from succession duties for family-owned businesses has recently been published (Geurts and Vogten case, O.J., C-74/3, Case C-464/05). Article 60bis, §5 of the Flemish Code for Succession Duties provides for […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
Last year, on July 1, 2005, the EC Savings Directive entered into force.
It regulates tax on interest payments.
“The ultimate aim of the directive is to ensure savings income in the form of interest payments made by a financial institution of one EU Member State to a beneficiary living in another state is subject to taxation in […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Recently, on December 16, 2005, the Belgian Parliament has adopted the Bill in execution of the Generation Pact.
Its aim is to discourage early retirement, encourage employment of young people and stimulate innovation. One of the obvious means to do this (among others), is to change some of the rules applicable to the taxation of pensions for instance.
Please […]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Een circulaire van 8 maart 2006 over de indexering van de kadastrale inkomens (cf. artikel 518 W.I.B. ‘92) brengt een interessant hulpmiddel aan bij de berekening van de kadastrale inkomens en de toepassingen hierop.
In een eerste bijlage bij deze Circulaire wordt het indexcijfer meegedeeld, die van toepassing zijn voor artikel 255 W.I.B. ‘92 voor aanslagjaar 2006 […]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Dit jaar is de einddatum voor het indienen van de aangifte in de personenbelasting niet 30 juni 2006, maar wel 19 juli 2006.
Volmachtdragers (bv. fiscalisten die in naam van een klant aangifte indienen) krijgen zelfs de tijd tot 31 oktober 2006 om hun aangifte in te dienen as ze gebruik maken van de elektronische aangifte tax-on-web.
Het aangifteformulier zou […]
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
Onlangs verscheen in De Standaard van 18 april 2006 een erg interessant artikel over hoe de fiscus als sponsor van een vastgoedinvestering kan dienen.
Tegenwoordig is het niet eenvoudig om nog een goede belegging te vinden voor de vaak zuur verdiende spaarcentjes. Velen overwegen dan ook om in vastgoed te investeren.
In dit artikel kan u lezen […]
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Op 14 april 2006 is er een nieuwe circulaire verschenen over de fiscale behandeling van het voordeel dat voortspruit uit een collectieve verzekering voor geneeskundige verzorging die betrekking hebben op de terugbetaling van de kosten van ambulante zorgen.
Het voordeel dat ontstaat voor werknemers en bedrijfsleiders door werkgeversbijdragen of bijdragen van de onderneming voor zulke verzekering, […]
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Inkomsten kunnen een professioneel karakter hebben of niet. Het onderscheid tussen beiden geeft aanleiding tot heel wat rechtspraak.
Onlangs heeft het Hof van Beroep van Bergen weer een arrest geveld waarin een dergelijke beoordeling gemaakt moest worden.
Een persoon had over de jaren heen 33 onroerende goederen verzameld. Hij kocht bouwvallige panden op, knapte ze op en […]
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
The ECJ has delivered its judgment in case C-152/03 Ritter Coulais, concluding that German tax legislation may not hinder taxpayers who are subject to unlimited tax liability in Germany from taking into account rental losses realized abroad.
The case deals with a German couple who earned income in Germany from employment as school teachers but lived […]
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Vragen over BNI/Personenbelasting, /Vennootschappen, /Rechtspersonen? Hier kan je je licht al eens opsteken.
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Friday, December 30th, 2005
The royal decree of 10 November 2005 contains a measure that increases the maximum contribution amount that can be invested in order to qualify from the tax reduction for pension-saving from 500 EUR to 635 EUR (non-indexed amounts). The new limit is applicable as from tax year 2006 which means that this year already you […]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2005
The Belgian treasury had the intention as of 1 January 2006 to levy a tax of 9.25% on the contributions for the health insurance in the Netherlands, paid by Belgian frontrier workers. After severe criticism by multiple organisations, the Belgian treasury recognised that this health insurance was a legally compulsory insurance and not a private […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
The European Commission refers Sweden to the European Court of Justice for the reason that under Swedish law, capital gains from home sales can only benefit a tax relief if the sold home is located in Sweden and if the sales profits are reinvested in a replacement residence in Sweden. The commission believes this constitutes […]
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