Expat Tax Regime

Now new rules you need to make 75k+ in order to be qualified , something like this ...

@ievgenfeldmann 75k only salary or is it included other benefits such as car company, insurances etc?

@syieda I will find file from  my Hr will send you

The 75k salary requirement does not include other benefits like car. There are lower limits for people in R&D. The three month period to request it is firm. Also, your company has to be willing to request this for you. Not all do because it provides significant benefits to those that get it vs their local colleagues

@Zaza00

Hello

could you please elaborate on the Exapt Tax Regime? Any link or video?

Hi,

The new expat tax rehime started back in Jan 2022. It is supposed to be easier to administrate than tje previous one (dating back from 1983) which was reqlly hectic.

So in short:

1. The application needs to be done 3 months of beiing employed at the latest. No exceptions now (1 semester 2022 there were some extensions due to lack of readiness). So if the 3 months have lapsed, sorry mate, you missed your chance

2. The beneficiary must have lived at least 150km away from the belgian border, and have been recruited directly from abroad

3. The employer NEEDS to make the application, as this requires different documents to be submitted, and special payroll treatment

For a fact, 30% of salary can be considered tax exempt. Butby no means, the actual taxable salary can be lower than 75k gross annually. This means that someone offered 100k per annum l, they would need to get paid 75k in salary, and 25k as a free tax allowance. The 30% has a limot of 90k per annum.

Hope this helps

Hi!

Has anyone applied to this recently and was approved? I was discussing this with a colleague and found out it is difficult to get approval for this.

Anyone with a recent experience?

3 month rule means employee should not start work in the company less than 3 months of applying to regime? Am I right?

I have applied and obtained it.

What RDV has described looks like the previous one...

If you have a salary of 75k, you can apply but you will get any monetary benefit as, reductions applied to what you get above 75k. For example if you have a total gross salary of 95k, 20k is the amount in which this special tax regimen will apply. You will end up with an increase of your yearly total net income of about 9k.

I hope that helps 

@gafarvictoir

Does it still have to be applied by the employer?