{"id":1701,"date":"2024-06-07T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypotheekenbuitenland.nl\/belgium\/rental-properties-belgium\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:33:47","slug":"rental-properties-belgium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hypotheekenbuitenland.nl\/en\/belgium\/rental-properties-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental properties Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rental properties Belgium<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Seasonal rental of a Belgian vacation home is quite common and mortgage lending Belgian banks are basically fine with it. Owning a vacation home is taxed for tax purposes in Belgium, as is renting it out. As a result of the Belgian – Dutch tax treaty, Belgium may levy taxes on the (notional) income from the vacation home (withholding tax and personal income tax) and the rental income (personal income tax). <\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Tax on ownership of Belgian (vacation) property<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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A (vacation) home in Belgium is taxed through the so-called real estate withholding tax; this is a tax on the (notional) income from real estate based on the indexed Cadastral Income (Cadastral Income (KI) is the average normal net income (net rental value) that the property would yield during one year. It is a measure used in Belgium in the same way as the WOZ value in the Netherlands). You could compare the property tax to the owner-occupied home tax in the Netherlands. The amount of this tax varies from region to region. The current levy rates are as follows:<\/p>\n