Moving to Belgium - safest tax solutions

[StirlingBlues]

Hi everybody, first time posting here so sorry if I'm missing something obvious and putting this in the wrong place.

My wife has been offered a job in Belgium with the company she currently works with, it's a promotion for her so a no brainer as a permanent employee but I contract in the UK and not sure how to go about setting up in Belgium.

The project I'm working on at the moment is due to finish Dec 2020 and they're happy for me to work from Belgium instead of UK as they're a global company. My intention is to see out this project and use that year to polish up my French before looking for permanent jobs in Belgium.

I've no idea how to go about setting up my tax status in Belgium for a contract, google and my agency pointed me to Access Financial but a search on here makes them seem quite questionable. Is there a local equivalent to an umbrella who will just take the contract and pay me through PAYE?

I know from the tax rates that my retention will be quite low, but I don't want to fall for the promises of high retention and end up with a big bill years down the line for dodgy taxes.

[David71]

If yoy can stay contracted via the UK arm of the company then I'd not worry about changing anything if it's only for a short term until your contract ends. For 18 monyhs I just invoiced the (non-UK) agency in euros, they paid into my UK bank account.
I tried to register in the local commune etc. but they didn't want to have me once I said I was going back to the UK every two weeks.

[cojak]

Read the last 5 pages of this thread https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...-security.html

And this one https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...ief-guide.html