A country retreat by the sea, an extra house to rent out or a building for your studying child? Smart buyers do not pay the full pot of 12 percent registration fees for their second home, but the benefit rate of 2 percent. The Flemish Minister for Finance Ben Weyts (N-VA) wants to stop this and will close some back gates on January 1. Fiscalist Ive Rosseel (ACV): “This will soon make the domicile trick a lot more difficult.”
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Done with ‘back gates’ to buy a lowered registration rate: those who want to buy a house at 2%, can no longer use this ‘trick’ from January
Bytaketonews
Oct 7, 2025