Vacation is time is a perfect time to write a blog post. This time we discuss Tax Liberation Day or Tax Freedom Day and why you should take your financial future in your own hands. 1. Tax Freedom Day Tax Freedom Day is very controversy concept that leaves no room for discussion. Tax Freedom Day® […]
On Saturday 5th of May, VFB organized his second event of Financial planning. Last year we did attend this event as well and wrote this blog post about our key learnings. VFB event – Financial Planning : what did we learn ? Last year around 100 people attended this event and this year even more […]
On 19th July the news came out that the Belgian government considers a tax on investment accounts. When I read this news, I thought I was going to choke…and have a heart attack. “Do politicians have no common sense or brains about investing at all ?” was my first thought. Hereby I write a reflection […]
At the 4th of July, I read an interesting blog post of PIERRE HUYLENBROECK with the title “Become incredible RICH” on the Beleggersgids website. Pierre Huylenbroeck is the author of “Everyone investor’ and the publisher of Mister Market Magazine. (URL : www.mistermarket.be) He also wrote 4 books ‘De Reuzen van de Beurs’ (2000), ’40 Meesterwerken uit de Financiële […]
On Saturday we buy always the financial newspaper De Tijd in a local newspaper shop. Here we reflect on two articles that we read in the newspaper of the 11th of February. I think nobody does see the connection between the two articles and that’s why we reflect here on those two articles. Article 1: […]
During the past weekend End of January we have been focused on reading some new tax regulations that were kicked off by the Belgian government since the 1st January 2017. The first important change was the cancellation of the most stupid speculation tax on shares. You could read my key learnings from this experience in […]
Reflection on Belgian TAX stupidity In 2015, the Belgian government under Prime Minister Michel invented a speculation tax of 33% on capital gains of shares and options if they were sold within 6 months. The losses could not be deducted (as in other countries) so this tax led to a behavioral change amongst the little […]
As a dividend investor in Belgium, reaching financial independence is a real challenge. The main problem is that the politicians leading this country and inventing new taxes, have little or no financial knowledge. At the start of 2016, the “little investor” tax became effective taxing all stock gains at 33% for the little investor. Losses […]