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Hi all, I was a first time independent last year. I was a bit niavie and used an employment agency that got me an accountant etc to do VAT. The accountant however turned out to be very stupid and I feel I'll owe a lot more taxes than he told me and that I budgeted for. We have a meeting with an account whom we trust through our family to go over everything next week, but worst case scenario - How do the Belgian work out tax payment plans? I think we'll owe about 10.000 more than we budgeted for according to the last accountant. We don't have that much in savings and can't sell anything of that value. I moved back to permanent employment this month so we both make modest incomes now. We can't afford to take a loan out or pay much a month... Its a bad scenario and we're looking to sell a car, but would take a loss as its newer, can't sell the house , furniture isn't worth that much. We don't want to cheat them, but are afraid they won't accept modest payments; Anyone have experience?

Torj

Hi, I don't have any personal experience with the Belgian system, but I looked around and it seems like the Belgian office of debt collection has a rough outline of how to deal with it:

http://www.fiscus.fgov.be/interfainvfr/Questions/Paiement.htm

As far as I understand you will have to apply for a payment facility, specifying your income, how you plan on repaying the taxes and at what rate.

Sorry if this isn't of much help, but best of luck with your new accountant and getting it all sorted.

Sep 1, 2012 09:34