{"id":1038,"date":"2021-01-20T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/het-box-3-vermogen-vermogen-van-minderjarige-kinderen-telt-mee\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:33:58","slug":"the-box-3-assets-of-minor-children-are-taken-into-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/het-box-3-vermogen-vermogen-van-minderjarige-kinderen-telt-mee\/","title":{"rendered":"Box 3 assets: assets held by minor children are taken into account!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8741\" src=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/20210115Spaarvarken.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children cost money, even if they have money of their own. When completing the income tax return, the savings of minor children must be included in the parents\u2019 Box 3.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Minor children<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Assets such as savings, investments and a second home all qualify as Box 3 assets. These assets must be declared in the income tax return. Parents of minor children must also include their children\u2019s savings accounts in their income tax return. If, in addition to savings, the child also has other assets, such as investments, these must also be included in the parent\u2019s income tax return.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The ruling<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>As recently as <a href=\"http:\/\/deeplink.rechtspraak.nl\/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2021:29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> litigation was brought on this matter. In this case, the taxpayer had argued that it was unjust that his children\u2019s assets should be included in the calculation of the Box 3 tax he owed. The Court of Appeal concluded that attributing the assets of minor children to the parent exercising parental authority over them did not constitute unlawful discrimination. The Supreme Court declared the taxpayer\u2019s appeal in cassation unfounded without giving further reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal\u2019s ruling concerns the appeal in the case of a <a href=\"http:\/\/deeplink.rechtspraak.nl\/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:RBZWB:2017:7737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a> from the Zeeland West Brabant District Court. In this case, the court ruled that the legislature\u2019s decision to tax the passive income of minor children through their parents is not entirely without reason. Read more about the ruling and about active and passive income in our article here <a href=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/nieuws\/savings-and-investments-of-minor-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Savings and investments of minor children<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>The Box 3 levy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>No income tax is payable on actual income from capital, such as interest on savings, dividends on shares or rental income. In Box 3, it is not the actual income that is taxed, but a flat-rate calculated income. The tax due on this income is levied on a progressive basis. If you would like to know more about Box 3 income and taxation, please click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/nieuws\/progress-in-box-3-as-well\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Progress in Box 3 as well<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the judgment of 8 January 2021, the taxpayer also argued that the capital gains tax under Box 3 was contrary to European law. According to the Court, there was no question of an individual and excessive burden. We have written about this excessive burden on several occasions; see here: <a href=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/nieuws\/supreme-court-overturns-flat-rate-return-under-box-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court rejects flat-rate return under Box 3<\/a> . For example, the Supreme Court ruled that taxpayers faced an excessive burden in 2013 and 2014. The Supreme Court is not intervening but is leaving it to the legislature to amend the law on this point.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Tax-free allowance for 2020 and 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The 2020 income tax return will need to be completed shortly. The tax-free allowance is \u20ac30,846 if you do not have a tax partner, and \u20ac61,692 if you do. For 2021, these amounts are \u20ac50,000 and \u20ac100,000.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinderen kosten geld, zelfs als zij geld hebben. Voor de aangifte inkomstenbelasting dient het spaargeld van de minderjarige kinderen meegenomen te worden in box 3 van de ouders. Minderjarige kinderen Bezittingen, zoals spaargeld, beleggingen en een tweede woning, kwalificeren allemaal als box 3 vermogen. In de aangifte inkomstenbelasting dient dit vermogen opgegeven te worden. Ouders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}