06-26-2015, 11:51 AM | #781 |
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*flops down in a lounge chair* Please, someone get me a strong tea. >_<
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06-26-2015, 03:52 PM | #782 | |
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Heh, you're telling that to a Belgian. What nation didn't defeat us and lorded over us for a while in, oh, lets say the last 10 centuries? I can name at least five just from the top of my head.
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06-26-2015, 10:23 PM | #783 |
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That actually is pretty funny lol
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06-28-2015, 06:46 AM | #784 |
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*drags herself out of the chair to pour herself and Earn a cuppa*
I still had a tax man to do it for me this year (came with the mortgage advise), but next year I'm supposed to have all the fun myself. The play I was in had its final show last Friday. Thankfully. It was a sort of fun, yet it was not. Very exhausting.
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06-28-2015, 06:57 AM | #785 |
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Is it tax season in Belgium?
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06-28-2015, 07:20 PM | #786 | ||
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Heh, just imagine if I was far enough gone to try and fill up a cow with water and put it on a hot stove... I doubt it would have appreciated that, though...
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Do yours get more complicated every year too? When you get certain politicians on TV proudly declaring it's a good thing that people can't make head or tails of the tax return papers because they'll either make mistakes and thus can be fined, or will declare more just to be on the safe side and either way means more money for the state, it's little wonder one's tax system is a mess. Quote:
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06-28-2015, 10:15 PM | #787 | ||
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06-29-2015, 12:42 AM | #789 |
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I have never heard about that until now. As I don't have any overseas accounts, no... I can barely keep up with the checking and savings accounts I have. This is also why I pay someone else to file my taxes. I'm really not smart enough to do them myself
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06-29-2015, 03:12 AM | #790 | ||
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06-29-2015, 06:31 AM | #791 | |
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We aim to please.
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By the looks of it, I'm pretty sure I would only fall under FATCA if I was a US citizen, or possibly if I had an income from the USA. My Belgian tax form does require information about foreign accounts and property, and were any of them in the USA, I'm pretty sure the Belgian tax services would happily pass on that information to the USA, as per agreement, after taking their cut, naturally. The part on information of foreign assets has been a sticky point for years here. They've been fiddling with the phrasing for years and some times that has led to your own tax form being possibly erronous when it demands to know information about other people's assets that you simply might not know. Yeah, sure, let me go and ask all family members whether they have foreign accounts and if they'd be so kind to give me the account number and financial entity so I can put all that on MY tax file so I can be in order? Can you imagine getting a phone from the tax office demanding why you haven't put your dad's foreign account on your own tax file? (It didn't come that far in reality since the politicians quickly engaged in backpaddling. But that's what you get when officials are so eager to know where people keep their money that they don't think their phrasing through.) But there is a (reasonably) good side since the complexity of our tax system also comes from a good deal of tax reduction opportunities and their regulations. Still, Belgium is one of the most heavily taxed countries in Europe. |
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06-29-2015, 09:47 AM | #792 |
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In Norway we get a pre-filled form saying, 'This is what we know about you: Your employer reported that you earned this much, your bank reported that your account contains this much and that your mortgage is so much, we know that your property is worth this much, so this amount is what we're planning to tax you. If you're fine with that, you needn't do anything. If there are any changes you want to make, fill them in.'
People are advised to check this carefully. If there are mistakes in your disfavor, you lose out - and if some taxable income is missing, you could be in trouble. Edit: Most of the tax reduction items you have to fill in yourself, they wouldn't necessarily know about those.
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06-29-2015, 12:17 PM | #793 |
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We have a similar system to Norway with pre-filled out online forms. It's gotten less complex the last couple of years. It's really only the trick of figuring out what they mean with some sentences. Tax-reducible items have become fewer in return though.
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06-30-2015, 06:04 AM | #796 | |
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But the basic health insurance here is essentially free due to our social security system and I vaguely recall that if you don't take steps to get any health inssurance yourself, you get automatically transferred to one provider. So I don't think anyone is actually fined or penalised in practise. Only in the way that you end up with a very basic health insurance that doesn't cover all that much and that in the long run you might have better off with one you had picked yourself based on your needs. |
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07-01-2015, 11:12 AM | #798 |
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We're having a heat wave now, so all rain is welcome. Last week of school. The week of hardest work every year. *sigh*
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07-01-2015, 03:29 PM | #799 |
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<_< >_> Is the tax-talk over already? You scared me away with it I got new glasses, The Greatest Show On Earth physical edition, surprisingly little allergy and Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition
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07-02-2015, 09:27 PM | #800 |
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Hi, all. Just got back from the grocery store to get the Fixin's for out Independence Day blowout. Attalus is getting his smoker set up to smoke the ribs.
Susie
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