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How and When to File Your Belgian Personal Income Tax Return for Tax Year 2025

Legal Filing Deadlines

General Rule:

  • Paper return: Must be filed by June 30, 2025 (Art. 308 § 1 para. 1 WIB 92).
  • Via MyMinfin (Tax-on-web): Deadline is July 15, 2025 for both individuals and authorized representatives (Art. 308 § 1 para. 1 WIB 92).

Complex Tax Return

A complex tax return is one that includes one or more of the following specific types of income, or for the first time declares any of the following:

  • Profits and/or income from self-employment
  • Remuneration for company directors
  • Remuneration for assisting spouses (legally cohabiting)
  • Foreign professional income (including pensions, annuities, equivalent allowances, and replacement income)
  • Ownership of real estate abroad
  • Alimony received from or paid to a person abroad
  • Loans taken out abroad
  • Legal constructions
  • Application of the special tax regime for inbound taxpayers and researchers

📅 Deadline for complex return:
Taxpayers whose return qualifies as complex and who normally have a deadline of July 15, 2025, may request an extension until October 16, 2025 by selecting the new checkbox in the online return:
“I believe I may file my return until 16/10/2025 because…”
→ followed by the selection of the reason for the extension.

  • Paper return: June 30, 2025
  • Tax-on-web: October 16, 2025 (for both individuals and authorized representatives)
    (Art. 308/1, § 1, first and second paragraph WIB 92)

Flat-rate Tax Base

Taxpayers taxed on a flat-rate basis must file their tax return for assessment year 2025 no later than January 15, 2026 (Art. 308/1, § 1, para. 3 WIB 92).

Filing deadlines will be visible in the MyMinfin platform.


Deadlines for Modifying the Pre-completed Simplified Return

If the pre-completed simplified return needs to be modified by adding:

  • Profits and/or income from self-employment
  • and/or remuneration for company directors
  • and/or remuneration for assisting spouses (legally cohabiting)
  • and/or foreign professional income

→ the taxpayer or representative must request an extension by July 15, 2025.

The modified return can then be submitted no later than October 16, 2025 via MyMinfin (Tax-on-web).

  • Via paper reply form: June 30, 2025
  • Via MyMinfin (Tax-on-web): July 15, 2025 (for both individuals and authorized representatives)