New social security treatment of non-taxable expatriate allowances – confirmation from the social security authorities
As indicated in our HRS headline of 30 November 2012, the Belgian social security authorities have recently changed their position in respect of the amount of tax-free allowances that can be exempted from Belgian social security, in a bid to make Belgium and its special tax regime for foreign executives more attractive. Yesterday, the social
New social security treatment of expatriate’s non taxable allowances retroactively applicable as from 1 January 2012
Context Under certain conditions, foreign executives who are temporarily assigned to work in Belgium can benefit from a special tax status. In this case, they are treated for tax purposes as non-residents of Belgium and taxed on their Belgian-source income only. The special expatriate tax status, the rules of which are laid down in an