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Housing tax on renovated apartment
Hello
When you renovate an old apartment, the control office asks you if it is finished. When you tell them then someone comes round and sees how much housing tax you will have to pay. That is how I understand it from their website.
I think it is rather unfair if you have put a lot of money in renovating an old apartment that you have to pay a much higher property tax then before? All money went into the renovation :-)
Anyway will it go up a lot and what is the best way to prevent the housing tax going through the roof?
Thank you for your advice
What "control office" are you talking about? If you're renovating a property and don't extend or modify it in a way that needs permission from the commune, or don't claim grants, then no one from any "control office" will visit you.
I know that Belgium has a reputation for being bureaucratic, but they don't send around inspectors just because you've repainted your apartment.
On the other hand, I extended and doubled the size of my house back in 2002-3, and the cadastre has only just been reevaluated this year. The tax basically doubled. Ouch!!!!
We bought an apartment in a building which had been in bad repair for a number of years, ie it was not possible to live in it so no housing tax was charged. when the apartment was fully modernised and finished we had to start paying housing tax. no one ever came, they went by the sq metres of the apartment and the area it was in.
We bought an apartment in a building which had been in bad repair for a number of years, ie it was not possible to live in it so no housing tax was charged. when the apartment was fully modernised and finished we had to start paying housing tax. no one ever came, they went by the sq metres of the apartment and the area it was in.
