Global Daily Tax News, Belgium Confirms VAT Payment Processing Issue, (Feb 13, 2025)

The Belgian tax agency has issued a statement acknowledging an issue with the processing of quarterly value-added tax payments.

Value-added tax law amendments that became effective from January 1, 2025, introduced new quarterly filing and payment deadlines for taxable persons. Due a technical issue, the tax agency was unable to process payments made between January 24-27, 2025. In these cases, late payment interest was wrongly levied on taxpayers' accounts.

The tax agency said: "The correction is of course in progress and will be carried out as soon as possible, without any intervention being necessary on the part of the taxable person or his representative."

The tax agency said taxpayers who settled the full amount of VAT before January 27, 2025, will have interest waived in full. Interest payable will be recalculated for taxpayers who partially paid the VAT due.

Overpaid interest amounts will be refunded in taxpayers' next returns, the tax agency said.