> Vorig jaar dienden meer dan 72.000 Belgen een bezwaarschrift in, een stijging met ruim 20 procent in twee jaar tijd. Bovendien kregen in bijna 45 procent van de gevallen de klagers ook volledig of deels gelijk.
Warme oproep aan iedereen om steeds je gegevens te controleren en niet blindelings te vertrouwen op het voorstel van vereenvoudigde aangifte dat je toegestuurd krijgt! Bovendien, als je niet akkoord bent met de zienswijze van de fiscus, tonen de cijfers aan dat een fiscalist ter bijstand contacteren wel degelijk loont.
De belastingen zijn al hoog genoeg. Niet meer betalen dan wat je werkelijk verschuldigd bent is dus de boodschap.
Kind of makes sense though. They’re rolling out prefilled tax forms more and more. Those are not always complete, due to lacking information or just errors in the system. I could see how people don’t properly check those forms, and only notice it when they get their final calculation. At which point they file a complaint.
But this is going to open the door for abuse, especially since
>De fiscus, die zijn personeelsbestand de voorbije tien jaar met zo’n 14.000 ambtenaren zag slinken, ontkent niet dat de werkdruk is gestegen
will result in them picking their fights about which complaints to fight. They’ll just put their effort in low hanging fruit or cases about high amounts.
To summarize the most common items to check
1. Loan for your house: make sure to check you get the max out of it, if its depleted have a look at insurances to replace it
2. Pension savings (although i don’t recommend them) – check if filled
3. Children – do you have any – then make sure A. they are declared in the form. B. you actually calculate the daycare/sportcamps/etc.. into detail
4. Inheritance: certainly when there is real estate involved, double check everything and if unsure ask advice from an expert (can sometimes be obtained for free at your bank)
5. Service cheques: you have cleaning lady? make sure to declare cheques spent
6. Do you have an SO (married, legally living together,…) – check how you distribute some deductions to optimize your return
7. Work cost- go forfait or declare your actual expenses? Do a proper calculation to see what is most beneficial
8. Bike allowance at work, make sure its declared properly
9. Driving a motorbike: clothes can be deducted
10. AirBnB or other real estate: again check properly
11. Investment/crypto/etc: consult r/BEFire
Bottomline: for a first time check with an expert – and do this also when something significant changes in your life (an extra kid is easy, extra real estate or investment might be good to consult an expert)
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As stated by u/Mzxth : don’t just handover money when its legally yours to keep
As a single person I used to get +/-1300 refund every year. Then it stopped, so i started checking in more detail. Couldn’t understand it at all. I have someone ‘ten laste’, then the next year i didn’t. Then there was a big deduction, then not anymore. Then started to check the tax percentages and it’s ridiculous. I had years with ‘afzonderlijke beroepsinkomsten’, then they stopped.
Then ‘gewestelijke belastingen’ en ‘gemeente belasting’. Waarvoor is dit eigenlijk?
And I’m a single guy, without a pay raise in the last years, i don’t have a loan. All i doe is pensioensparen.
Should be like a basic case.
Reading some comments here, there seems to be quite abit of misconceptions about basic fiscal stuff.
Maybe the reddit accountants should do an AMA or something…
Only basic stuff ofc.
Or organize “zit dagen” in a pub. “Buy me a beer, get some answers”.
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> Vorig jaar dienden meer dan 72.000 Belgen een bezwaarschrift in, een stijging met ruim 20 procent in twee jaar tijd. Bovendien kregen in bijna 45 procent van de gevallen de klagers ook volledig of deels gelijk.
Warme oproep aan iedereen om steeds je gegevens te controleren en niet blindelings te vertrouwen op het voorstel van vereenvoudigde aangifte dat je toegestuurd krijgt! Bovendien, als je niet akkoord bent met de zienswijze van de fiscus, tonen de cijfers aan dat een fiscalist ter bijstand contacteren wel degelijk loont.
De belastingen zijn al hoog genoeg. Niet meer betalen dan wat je werkelijk verschuldigd bent is dus de boodschap.
Kind of makes sense though. They’re rolling out prefilled tax forms more and more. Those are not always complete, due to lacking information or just errors in the system. I could see how people don’t properly check those forms, and only notice it when they get their final calculation. At which point they file a complaint.
But this is going to open the door for abuse, especially since
>De fiscus, die zijn personeelsbestand de voorbije tien jaar met zo’n 14.000 ambtenaren zag slinken, ontkent niet dat de werkdruk is gestegen
will result in them picking their fights about which complaints to fight. They’ll just put their effort in low hanging fruit or cases about high amounts.
To summarize the most common items to check
1. Loan for your house: make sure to check you get the max out of it, if its depleted have a look at insurances to replace it
2. Pension savings (although i don’t recommend them) – check if filled
3. Children – do you have any – then make sure A. they are declared in the form. B. you actually calculate the daycare/sportcamps/etc.. into detail
4. Inheritance: certainly when there is real estate involved, double check everything and if unsure ask advice from an expert (can sometimes be obtained for free at your bank)
5. Service cheques: you have cleaning lady? make sure to declare cheques spent
6. Do you have an SO (married, legally living together,…) – check how you distribute some deductions to optimize your return
7. Work cost- go forfait or declare your actual expenses? Do a proper calculation to see what is most beneficial
8. Bike allowance at work, make sure its declared properly
9. Driving a motorbike: clothes can be deducted
10. AirBnB or other real estate: again check properly
11. Investment/crypto/etc: consult r/BEFire
Bottomline: for a first time check with an expert – and do this also when something significant changes in your life (an extra kid is easy, extra real estate or investment might be good to consult an expert)
​
As stated by u/Mzxth : don’t just handover money when its legally yours to keep
As a single person I used to get +/-1300 refund every year. Then it stopped, so i started checking in more detail. Couldn’t understand it at all. I have someone ‘ten laste’, then the next year i didn’t. Then there was a big deduction, then not anymore. Then started to check the tax percentages and it’s ridiculous. I had years with ‘afzonderlijke beroepsinkomsten’, then they stopped.
Then ‘gewestelijke belastingen’ en ‘gemeente belasting’. Waarvoor is dit eigenlijk?
And I’m a single guy, without a pay raise in the last years, i don’t have a loan. All i doe is pensioensparen.
Should be like a basic case.
Reading some comments here, there seems to be quite abit of misconceptions about basic fiscal stuff.
Maybe the reddit accountants should do an AMA or something…
Only basic stuff ofc.
Or organize “zit dagen” in a pub. “Buy me a beer, get some answers”.
Proof that taxation is theft.