To file online, you log in with your electronic id card, a token or via Itsme.
Itsme is a Belgian app that you can use to identify yourself with the tax office and other government services. You download the app from the AppStore or Google Play and you activate it once with your bank card or electronic identity card.
With Itsme, you can login to Tax-on-Web with a 5-digit code on your smartphone. As Itsme is also being pushed by the banks to identify you on your banking apps, it is rapidly becoming a well-known tool.
To log in with your electronic ID-card (the one with a chip), you need a smart card reader, and the PIN code you recorded when you received your id card.
If you lose your PIN-code, the commune can give you another one with your puk code (that you can find on the document that came with the original pin code – if you don’t have that anymore, you will have to ask the commune to reset the pin code).
Setting up the software for the e-card reader may be the trickiest part.
Keep in mind that you may have problems if you do not use one of the traditional browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome).
My identity card doesn’t have a chip
This is usually the case if you live abroad . A token is a card with 24 codes like SOLIPE or WAPERI. When you log on to Tax-on-web, or when you sign in, you will have to asked to identify yourself with e.g. code 13; just type WAPERI and you are in.
How does Tax-on-web work?
When you log in, you open your own Taxbox on Myminfin, and when you click on ‘remplir’ you find something that looks like an actual tax return (it is the document prĂ©paratoire that normally comes with your paper tax return.
You will see that when the tax authorities already have the information, the boxes will already be filled out. That is the case for the identity of your dependent children, the cadastral income of your properties, your salary and the wage withholding tax or your titres services … Check that the information you find is correct and that it corresponds to the tax statements you received from your employer, from the Pensions Office, etc ….
On each page you can click and get online explanation, you can add a comment or attach a PDF-file. The help files don’t offer much more information than the explanatory booklet that the tax authorities give you online.
Calculate the tax
Before you sign and finalise your tax return, you can calculate how much tax you will have to pay. It is a rough estimate because the calculation doesn’t take account of complicated issues like cross border workers, overseas income, etc. That calculation isn’t the tax bill; that will come later.
Don’t forget to sign
This sounds obvious, but every year there are taxpayers who save the tax return without signing it. The tax return is not filed unless you sign with your PIN code (if you have an electronic id card) or with your access code. Spouses and partners who file a joint tax return must log on and sign separately with their PIN code or access code. It is only when both spouses and partners have signed, that the return is filed.
When you have both signed, you receive a confirmation of the date and time of filing. I suggest you print it or save a copy.
If you have recently separated and you do not want to file jointly, you can now file separately and sign separately as well.
You can always check the summary of your tax return in your Taxbox. It isn’t a bad idea to save a copy as well. You don’t need to send a copy of the confirmation or the PDF-summary.
Once the tax return is filed, you can still correct your tax return once online until 15 July. And you both need to sign again. If you need to change anything after that date, you will have to contact your local tax office. You can call them or just send them a letter saying: “in code 1030-10, please replace 1,000 by 1,500”.
Your tax return:
- the Guide
- Tax filing in Corona Times
- Is this your first time?
- Couples and Children
- When do I need to file?
- on Paper or Online?
- Filing Online
- Filing on Paper
- The Taxman sends a Tax Proposal
- Help!?
- Checklist
- Box I – Contact Details and Bank Account
- Box II – Your Family Situation
- Box III – Real Estate
- Box IV – Earnings
- Box V – Pensions
- Cross Border Taxation
- Box VI – Maintenance Received
- Box VII – Investment Income
- Box VIII – Maintenance Paid and Losses from Previous Years
- Box IX – Mortgage Payments
- Box X – Other Tax Deductions
- Box XII – Paying your Taxes in Advance
- Capital Gains
- Box XIII – Overseas Accounts and Insurance Policies
- Box XIII – Trusts
- Stock Exchange Tax
- Tax on Securities Accounts
- Nowhere to hide
- The Tax Bill
- Appealing the Tax Bill
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