Economic Instruments - Charges and taxes

Tax on Packages of Inks, Glues and Solvents for Professional Use - Brief Summary (Belgium)

Introduced

1993 as part of the Ecobani Law


Design

These packages are taxable where:

  • the products they contain are printing inks referred to by NACE-REV 1 Code 24:30;
  • glues referred to by NACE-Rev 1 Code 24.62;
  • and certain solvents
  • AND their capacity exceeds 5 litres for industrial solvents, 10 litres for industrial glues and 2.5 litres for industrial inks.

Rates

Rates for the packaging are:

  • Solvents - 0.6197 per 5litres
  • Glues - 0.6197 per 10 litres
  • Inks - 0.6197 per 2.5 litres

The tax cannot exceed 12.3947 per package.

Exemptions

The containers are exempt if they are collected through a product-linked deposit-refund system, return premuim system, packaging-credit system or collection system.


References

FPS Finance (Federal Public Service Finance), 2005. Environmental Taxes and teh Packaging Charge, Indirect Taxation. The Tax Survey Part II, Chapter 8, Belgium. http://docufin.fgov.be/websedsdd/intersalgen/thema/publicaties/memento/memento.htm

Posted by admin on 13/06/08

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