There will be a new month and so a number of new measures. On april 1, the digital instrument in place, the doctors are more for the management of the global medical file, you have less to pay vat for the purchase of plants in a garden, and the staff of Ryanair in our country under the Belgian labour law. Digital act
The paper birth or marriage makes way for the digital certificate, stored in a central database. The registrar will act in the future, only electronic sign . That change is officially on Sunday the 31st of march, but in practice it will do so from Monday 1 april to be applied.
It will take some getting used to for the officials at the town hall. At a birth, change of name or marriage, there will be no ball-point pen to take. With their electronic identity card signed by officials of the civil registry electronic the act. Citizens should no longer own their signatures, that of the official is sufficient.
The mandatory digitization eliminates the inconvenience and discomfort of the millions of paper documents in the city halls and the courts are kept. They can no longer beschimmelen and should no longer be printed. That saves paper, space and storage costs.
in addition, the national register automatically updated when a record is changed. The government will on request now also acts to pass on to other services. The extracts are in the same uniform way and delivered and can only be digitally formatted, or modified by employees who have the appropriate access rights.
The municipalities, courts and foreign consulates have for months prepared for the arrival of the central database (DABS) . Old deeds from the local registers were transferred to the new database. There are a total of 589 municipal registers and 102 consular posts abroad integrated in the database.
Lower vat rate for plants
Who flowers and plants purchased at a garden contractor, will be from april 1, but 6 percent vat to pay, compared to 21 percent now. The measure must be unfair competition and the risk on black circuits to eliminate.
Who trees, shrubs, plants or flowers for the garden buy at a sierteler, pay then 6 percent vat. But a garden a garden plant and also trees or plants provides, had for the same plant until now a vat-rate of 21 per cent of charge. By that difference were garden owners are encouraged to invest in their own plants directly from the growers to go and buy, what black circuits in hand-worked.
From april 1, the distinction is eliminated. The flowers, trees, shrubs and plants of the garden contractors will therefore also be under the lower vat rate of 6 percent fall.
A garden contractor will invoice for the construction of a garden so have split it, because the rest of the price remains subject to the vat rate of 21 percent.
