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Tax · 2026-02-02 · 6 minutes

A Belgian heir is not a Flemish assessment

An heir in Belgium, in an estate you administer in the Netherlands, remains a separate line. Note the country. Also note the address as you know it, and leave empty what you do not know. The country on that line is a fact for the handling, not a choice for a tax system. The Dutch indication with the table for 2026 is a worksheet for Dutch inheritance tax. It is not a Belgian assessment. It is not the Flemish tax. Do not paste that indication into the letter to this heir as if the figure were the tax in Flanders. A shared language does not make the levy the same. The country on the line keeps that distinction visible for the next reader.

Belgium can levy tax. That does not follow from the Dutch table and it is not calculated here. This file records no Flemish rate and no exemption from a Belgian scheme. Those figures do not stand here, and you do not take them from the Dutch indication by ignoring the country. With the heir put that the foreign levy is open for as long as no document of that levy lies in the file. A leaflet from a bank or a reminder from the family is not that document. Ask which region and which assessment apply of the person who knows that levy. Until then the field stays empty. An empty field with the country Belgium is more usable than a Dutch figure in a Flemish sentence.

The letter to this heir names facts that belong in the file: the name, the country, and which layers you share. It does not name the Dutch indication as the outcome of the Flemish tax. Also do not promise an exemption because someone is a child or a partner in the Dutch table. You can record that relationship for the Dutch administration, with the source of the family tie. It does not travel along as a Belgian qualification. If the amounts layer is on, then only for figures you can support as Dutch estate inventory items, and with a sentence that this is not the foreign assessment. Better the layer off than a figure the heir reads as an assessment. The internal weighing stays an internal note.

Ervazo can record the country with the heir and show the Dutch figures as an indication on the worksheet. Ervazo records and calculates as a worksheet. That sum is not a Belgian assessment and not a Flemish tax. That is not advice. It files nothing and it pays nothing. The program sends no return to a Belgian authority and it does not convert a Dutch figure into a levy across the border. Whether this heir must pay in Belgium, and whether a return belongs in the Netherlands, lies outside this screen. The worksheet keeps the country and the open question. The qualification is made by the person who knows the documents and the levy, not by the table alone.