WILLEMSTAD - In September, the tax authorities will make major catching up with the imposition and processing of income tax arrears. There is a backlog in imposing the tax assessments for 2019 and 2020. This is reported by the Ministry of Finance.
The pile of returns in July was around 18,000 and almost 15,000 returns have already been submitted for the 2021 tax year. The vast majority of the current tax returns must be eliminated before 1 December.
Catching up is done with the help of data analysis and so-called scripting software. This is software with which actions that are normally carried out manually can take place quickly and in large numbers in a fully automated manner.
Objections
However, the consequence of the imposition of (overdue) assessments in large numbers and especially in combination with a stricter collection approach is that there has also been a sharp increase in the objections submitted, according to the Ministry of Finance.
SBAB has been supporting the Tax Authorities for some time with the processing of objections and since the end of June, an accelerated processing of objections with a relatively small financial interest has taken place.
Due to the high influx of new objections, the reduction of the total stock is limited to 5,207, which is a reduction of more than twelve percent compared to the end of June.
The tax authorities are currently putting a lot of effort into preventing new notices of objection. For example, the Crib file (tax number) will be cleaned up considerably in September by removing inactive business owners and thus limiting the imposition of new (usually appraised) assessments.
The tax authorities are also in consultation with the Land Registry for an update of the property tax administration. By aligning the property tax records of the Tax and Customs Administration with the registrations in the Land Registry, it is possible to prevent assessments from being wrongly imposed on the former owner of an immovable property.
Representatives of Domain Management also participate in the consultation with the Land Registry, because they face the same problems with the administration of ground leases. In this way, a joint solution can be reached for both services.