Thousands of Belgians still have to pay inheritance tax on donations: a money expert explains how this is possible

Donations that were not registered and where the donor died within three years subsequently yielded more than 280 million euros in inheritance tax to the Flemish tax authorities in 2024. How did the tax authorities discover the debts? 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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