A little nestlier placed in a tax haven? Go for this time. As part of the single release declaration, you can repatriate it for a small fine. And if you later consider that your money was getting better in the sun, rest assured: this is the fifth time that the Belgian government warns that it is the last time.
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Imagine … you had a small chest to place and, at the time of the transfer, your finger unfortunately slipped and you encoded “Ba” instead of “Be”. And PAF, this is the Magot who left for the Bahamas rather than on the account of a Belgian bank duly approved by the Belgian taxman. An accident has arrived so quickly. But, since then, your conscience has tickled you …
Because tax fraud is not for you. No, you do not want to be one of those who feed this vicious nasty circle: the money sent to tax havens escapes from the state funds, which obliges it to reduce its missions and degrades the quality of its public services, which ends up serving as a pretext for those who denounce the incompetence of the State since it can no longer do its work.
Fiscal fraud vs social fraud
Rest assured, the government has decided to help you relieve your conscience. From July 1, fraudsters will be able to repatriate their funds for payment of a fine (there is a question of 30 to 45 % of the amount concerned). Without judicial reprisals. And do not stop on the name of this device: single release declaration. Unique, it has only the name, since it is already the fifth time that a Belgian government has recourse to it.
In 2004, the government had allowed taxpayers who omitted to declare amounts of repatriating their money to their Belgian account within the framework of this particular regime. The first “fiscal amnesty”, managed by Didier Reynders (MR), Minister of Finance pushing professional conscience until it was suspected of addiction to gaming games, had allowed Belgium to recover 496 million euros, as a penalty recovered from the 5 billion returnees and regularized. Since then, three other official tax and criminal amnesty procedures have entered into force in 2005, 2013 and 2016.
Note however that, in some cases, this procedure offers the advantage, for heirs who have benefited from successions abroad – and who therefore had no malicious intention – to be able to repatriate these funds. But there is something to wonder if this almost permanent state of amnesty will not empty the concept of tax fraud in the end. But that it is not said that Belgium slips towards immorality. If it lets go of the ballast on the billions of tax fraud, the millions diverted by social fraudsters will be well, the subject of a ruthless hunt at all times.
