With 4,000 inheritances, tax had to be paid on donations in 2024: how do you avoid such a surprise?

Donations that were not registered and where the donor died within three years subsequently yielded inheritance tax of 280 million euros to the Flemish tax authorities in 2024. How did the tax authorities discover that and what now that the ‘suspicious period’ went from three to five years at the beginning of this year? HLN money expert Isabelle Verhulst explains what is going on and what you can do to avoid something like this.

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