Showing posts with label tax advisers curacao. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tax advisers curacao. Show all posts

April 07, 2016

Foute adviezen (1)

De meeste belastingadviseurs in Curacao zijn prima opgeleid en weten wat ze doen. Ze kunnen de afweging maken tussen de "cost and benefit" van hun advies en ook technisch valt vaak weinig op aan te merken. Er zijn echter ook een paar zwarte schapen onder ons.

In de serie "Foute adviezen" ga ik een paar adviezen beschrijven die niet goed zijn danwel regelrecht onrechtmatig.


Een vennootschap met forse winstreserves werd bijvoorbeeld door een belastingadviseur voorgehouden om deze winstreserves om te zetten in aandelenkapitaal en om vervolgens het aandelenkapitaal te verminderen en het verminderde deel (onbelast) terug te betalen aan de aandeelhouder. Daarvoor zijn notariele aktes benodigd dus een notaris werkt klaarblijkelijk mee aan deze gang van zaken.

Waarom kan dit niet? Je kunt enkel iets op aandelen storten indien zich dan nog niet in de vennootschap bevindt. Dus indien je winstreserves op aandelen wil storten zul je die winstreservers er eerst uit moeten halen. Bij een aandeelhouder/natuurlijk persoon levert dat "er uit halen" een belastingdruk op van 19,5 procent. Als deze aandeelhouder netjes die 19,5 procent dividend -want dat is het- aangeeft in je aangifte inkomstenbelasting en dan stort op deze aandelen is er niets aan de hand. Maar dat is een zinloze exercitie. De notaris in kwestie is klaarblijkelijk bereid om onder voorbijgaan aan de dividenduitkering de winstreserve onbelast om te zetten in aandelenkapitaal.

De aandeelhouder verzwijgt het dividend in zijn aangifte en maakt zich daardoor schuldig aan een fiscaal delict. Ook strafrechtelijk overigens want dit levert valsheid in geschrifte op en ook het witwasdelict. De betreffende adviseur en de notaris zijn medeplichtig of medepleger in deze en kunnen dus ook voor het bankje van onze rechters belanden.

Indien bovenstaande aan u wordt geadviseerd ren dan hard weg!

December 18, 2013

New Fiscal Export Facility

The Curacao parliament has adpted a new and very broad export facility. This is really exciting news and I cannot wait to find out more about this. Sofar the following has been made public:

Expected profit tax rate roughly 4 percent;

Conditions:

At least 90 percent of the intended activities (income I presume) have come from abroad;

Real substance which means real presence on Curacao;


Following activities to fall under the scope of this new regime:

Export of products and services;

International trade and services;

Repair and maintenance of stuff that will be exported afterwards

Repair and maintenance activities executed abroad;

Financial services among other exting loans

Other services to foreign based clients

Excluded are activities like sadly enough those of your tax advisor. Same goes for e-zone by the way.


This new system appears to be competitive and compliant with international tendencies to have a strong substance in the country of domicile.

It is expected that this new regime will enter into force on January 1st 2014. I have the first client lined up for this so I am really excited to have a go at this.


Keep you posted!


Have a nice X-Mas and a great 2014!

November 27, 2013

Fiscal consequences (for non-residents) of owning private property on Curacao

This article has been edited on November 12, 2019

Below we will briefly stipulate the fiscal consequences of leasing your Curacao real
estate to a third party, according to Curacao tax law. We shall differentiate between
property that is owned by individuals and company owned property like a Ltd./
Co./BV.

1  Individuals who lease a property to lessees.
In the case that you receive lease income with respect to a property on Curacao,
you are automatically liable to pay income tax on Curacao regardless weather you live on
Curacao yourself or not.  If you live abroad there will be “a foreign tax
liability. This means you have to complete an annual tax return
(inkomstenbelasting model B) and file it with the  tax office. On this return
you will have to state 65% of the yearly rental income.  You may deduct
only paid interest on a mortgage related to the purchase or improvement of
the property (if applicable). If the interest supersedes the lease income, you
may deduct the negative income during the following 5 years. (If you live
in the Netherlands you will also have to file your property in ‘BOX 3’ of
your income tax return, but you will be granted a tax exemption according
to the Tax Agreement of the Kingdom.)

2  The property is owned by a Dutch (or other country) company.

The company will have to annually file a complete statement of costs and
assets at the tax office, as if it were a separate company. This has to be
filed first as a preliminary tax return before the April 1st
each year. The final  tax return and payment is to be filed  before the 1st
of July each year. Currently the profit tax rate is 22 percent.
In the Netherlands the company is entitled to an exemption with respect to
this income.

3  VAT / Tourist tax.
If the lease contract of your property is 1 year or longer, no sales tax is applicable
in case the lessee is a formal Curacao resident. However, for short term lease,
you will have to charge 6 percent to the lessee In case the lessee  is a non-resident, you will
have to charge 7 percent sales tax.

(The above text is of an informative nature, no rights may be derived from it). 

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