REGISTRATION DUTIES,ESTATE DUTY AND FISCAL UPDATE
 
Lectured in 3rd year Bachelor in business studies - Main Subject: Accountancy-Tax Law
Theory [A] 25.0
Exercises [B] 0.0
Training and projects [C] 0.0
Studytime [D] 75
Studypoints [E] 3
Level specialized
Language of instruction Dutch
Lecturer Nog niet bepaald
Reference RCBMGA03A00007
 
Key words
Registration and Estate Duties, IWETO-code: S141 Tax Law, S192 Bookkeeping Sciences

Objectives
Getting students acquainted with the existing legislation on registration and estate duties.
Also indicate the importance of these laws.
Emphasis is put on the manner of application in compliance with the legislation used by the Flemish District.

Topics
Registration duties:
  • Introduction: definition, formalities, proportional and fixed rights, …
  • Arrangements, rates and conditions with transfers of immovable commodities
  • Divisions
  • Auctions of movable goods (short)
  • Leases
  • Loans of mortgage, alterations in business, establish privilege of agriculture (short)
  • Acts of companies
  • Judgements and arrests (short)
  • Donations:
            - Movable goods
            - Earnest money
Estate duties:
  • Principles legal law of inheritance
  • Levying inheritance tax
  • Definition of the assets
  • Definition of the liabilities
  • Declaration of estate
  • Filling in the declaration
  • Calculation of the inheritance taxes
  • Payment of the inheritance taxes
  • Restoration
  • Prescription
Fiscal update:
The subjects that are dealt with depend on the situation on the moment of lecturing.

Prerequisites
Basic principles of the hereditary succession from the Civil Code.

Final Objectives
Knowledge
Job-related (specific):
  • Knowledge of the registration- and heritance taxes
  • Knowledge of the sources that contain legal data
  • Knowledge of the professional fiscal literature
Skills
Job-related (general):
  • Ability to analyse documents
Job-related (specific):
  • Ability to trace, outline and collect in an efficient and effective way all possible sources that contain tax law data
Attitudes
Job-related (general):
  • Eagerness to learn continuously


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Assessment
  • First exam session: 100% written exam
  • Second exam session: 100% written exam
Students only enrolled for taking the exams:
  • First exam session: 100% written exam
  • Second exam session: 100% written exam


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