Two out of three investors want to adjust investment strategy to avoid capital gains tax
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Two in three investors who think that the capital gains tax will apply to them, plan their investment strategy to avoid the capital gains tax. This is evident on Wednesday from ING’s investor barometer.
Source: Belga
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The barometer has to take a big step back in March. He plummets to 93 points, the lowest level since October 2023. This allows the barometer for the first time in seventeen months below its neutral level of 100 points, which, according to ING, points out that the Belgian investor is previously looking towards the financial-economic developments. The economics expectations weaken, which in combination with the American trade measures affects stock market confidence.
Three out of four Belgian investors are concerned about the condition of Belgian public finances. In the search for higher income, the saver and the investor also come into view. However, 63 percent of investors find the current level of taxes on saving and investing on the high side. Barely 10 percent do not agree.
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If they still have to choose between a load on the value of the securities portfolio or a tax on the return on the effect portfolio, then almost six in ten investors opt for a return tax, a fifth opt for a value tax and the rest does not know.
Around 62 percent of investors are convinced that very rich people will avoid the capital gains tax. But when it is asked whether they will adjust their own investment strategy in order not to have to pay a capital gains tax, two thirds of the investors who think they are eligible for eligible affirmative. With 77 percent, this percentage is highest with the younger investors.
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« The answers from the investors show that the introduction of a capital gain tax in addition to the existing securities tax, withholding tax and stock market taxes, can give rise to avoidance behavior, while taxes would prefer to be as neutral as possible in the choice of investment instruments or other asset activa, concludes Peter Vanden Houte, HoofdeweCoEOK.
