Gros Van de Mensen Heeft Geen Nood Aan Successieplanning (How Most People Shouldn't Need Any Estate Planning)

Verbeke, Alain-Laurent

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Gros Van de Mensen Heeft Geen Nood Aan Successieplanning (How Most People Shouldn't Need Any Estate Planning)

Alain-Laurent Verbeke

University of Leuven, Faculty of Law, Department of Private Law; Harvard Law School; University of Leuven, Faculty of Psychology; Tilburg Law School Department of Private Law and TISCO; Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) - Católica Global School of Law; University of Brussels (VUB/ULB) ; Greenille (Attorneys, Notaries and Tax Advisors; Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam)

November 25, 2008

De Tijd, November 2008

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In this Op Ed I argue that the trend of pushing common people into estate planning, forcing them to donate assets inter vivos at low rates as 3% in order to avoid the higher inheritance taxes of 27 % makes no sense.

Better would be to abolish inheritance taxes between spouses and children up to a cap of eg 1 million Euro. If some simple adaptations would be made to marital property law and succession law, this would leave 99% of the Belgians without any need of estate planning at all, bringing them an enormous peace of mind to enjoy their money and house for the rest of their lives.

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Keywords: Estate Planning, Marital Property Law, Succession Law, Inheritance Tax

JEL Classification: K11, K12

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Date posted: April 3, 2011

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Verbeke, Alain-Laurent P.G., Gros Van de Mensen Heeft Geen Nood Aan Successieplanning (How Most People Shouldn't Need Any Estate Planning) (November 25, 2008). De Tijd, November 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1801303

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Alain-Laurent P.G. Verbeke (Contact Author) University of Leuven, Faculty of Law, Department of Private Law ( email ) Tiensestraat 41 Leuven, 3000 Belgium 003216325203 (Phone) 003216325296 (Fax) HOME PAGE: http://www.law.kuleuven.be/fvr
Harvard Law School ( email ) Cambridge, MA United States HOME PAGE: http://www.pon.harvard.edu/
University of Leuven, Faculty of Psychology Van Evenstraat 2B B-3000 Leuven, 3000 Belgium HOME PAGE: http://ppw.kuleuven.be/english/wopp/leuven-center-for-collaborative-management
Tilburg Law School Department of Private Law and TISCO ( email ) Tilburg, 5000 LE Netherlands HOME PAGE: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/tisco/
Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) - Católica Global School of Law Lisboa Portugal HOME PAGE: http://www.fd.lisboa.ucp.pt/site/custom/template/ucptplfac.asp?sspageID=3293&lang=2
University of Brussels (VUB/ULB) Laarbeeklaan 103 Brussels, Brabant 1090 Belgium HOME PAGE: http://www.vub.ac.be/iPAVUB/Postgraduaten/pg_estate.html
Greenille (Attorneys, Notaries and Tax Advisors; Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam) ( email ) Boulevard de la Woluwe 2 1150 Brussels Belgium 003227380650 (Phone) 003227380660 (Fax) HOME PAGE: http://www.greenille.eu

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Gros Van de Mensen Heeft Geen Nood Aan Successieplanning (How Most People Shouldn't Need Any Estate Planning)

Alain-Laurent Verbeke

Date posted: April 3, 2011

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Alain-Laurent P.G. Verbeke (Contact Author)