New Brussels' Regulations
Hey everybody,
The law changed this week in Brussels for us airbnb host. You need to declare yourself and fill in a lot of paper work. I've done some phone calls and research and basically to get more info i recommend this website :
http://www.werk-economie-emploi.irisnet.be/en/hebergement-touristiqueYou will need to see in which category you are: either "homestay accodomation" (meaning that you provide services including breakfast, and you can receive people all year long BUT your revenue will be taxed as professionnal revenue. Or you declare yourself as "tourist residence" (meaning you don't provide any services whatsoever, you can only receive people 4 month a year but your revenue should be taxed as "mobiler and immobilier revenue". I'm not entirely sure of this, but this is the results of my research from now on... Any experts please confirm !
🙂Martin
I would like to, I have printed out the list for all the documents. It is not impossible, but very time consuming and all the certifications won't come cheap. I have paid 400€ to an electrician just for the conformity of electricity in one small apartment... If anybody has time and will to deal with the Belgian authorities it would be a great work opportunity: sort out all the admin and file the registration requests for Airbnb hosts! I am abroad most of the time and this is going to be an hassle to deal with. A "grouping" approach would be great, like the groupes d'achats, as I already proposed. The insolvable problem is the reception present on location during working hours, Mon to Fri, for the Tourism Residences, as I guess most of us offer. No solution for that...
elena
3 days agoHas anybody gone to the meeting that Airbnb organised with some Belgian political figure on May 12? Anything interesting from there?
Martin
2 days agoWhen i phoned the people at
http://www.werk-economie-emploi.irisnet.be/en/hebergement-touristique. They said the "reception" issue doesn't really apply for airbnb hosts and we should not worry about that... While calling them and raising some issues about how things would apply to airbnb hosts, the guy also said several times "yes, that's a good point, i didn't know that".... So :)... It's still a very new issue for the controllers as well i think. I think the most important is to declare the airbnb revenue in your year tax return, the goal of making hosting more official is also to make sure people declare these revenue, which is fair to be honest!
😉 Gianluca
a day agoSo you mean that we don't have to do anything apart from declaring our revenues ?
elena
a day agoI would not say that Gianluca. If you want to keep being an Airbnb host you must follow the procedure and declare yourself, to regularise your status. Therefore keeping the deadline of July 23 and the pack of documents to prepare and present. In principle we were supposed to pay the taxes before this all came out...the big push was from the hotels, B&Bs etc that were seeing us as disloyal competition and put the tax and safety issues as the excuse...because, if we all leave in the spaces that we are offering, what's the need for all those documents and certificates? We do not even need most of them if we want to rent long term! Anyway, I am starting to look at the procedure and the papers, and I will try to get to the July deadline for the regularisation. I will keep you informed.
I must say though that I find very weird two facts:
- we are always, and only, the same VERY FEW people talking about this
- Airbnb is dead silent again.
For the first point I wonder where are the other hosts talking about this...or they are all planning to play dead and pretend that nothing has changed.
The second point seems to indicate that we are quite low on Airbnb list of interests. It is clear that the literal application of the ordonnance would kill Airbnb here. And yet they do not show any special interest. After December already, and definitely after the March attacks I could just buy the cigarettes with the money earned with Airbnb...and I do not smoke!
Martin 14 hours ago
just one question, you mentioned the deadline of 23rd of July. Where did you hear about this deadline?
Thanks!
It is on the site that you mentioned on your first post. This is the link to the relevant page for résidence de tourisme, deadline is the same also for the home stay: http://www.werk-economie-emploi.irisnet.be/fr/web/aee/guide-hebergement-touristique?next=WizHT_Trans...
Hi Elena ,
Wat You say is Indeed the true , like i say i Am a legal host from the begining , so for me No problem .. But wat i wanna say is 80% On airbnb do iT not On the legal way , if they must do That ... Then You Will find after a Year No hosts anymore On airbnb ,
You Will see everything Stays like it is , there comes only a new tax for everybody thats all ... ITS not possible for make controle to everyhost individuel
I feel that the only option is to end it all as it will be impossible to obtain the permission from the other owners in the building.
Plus Airbnb is totally absent here and I feel really isolated. On top on this airbnb is going even to close the groups so the isolation Will be even greater...
