Processing in Antwerp

In the USA there is very little to do to be gone for a year. That is not the case in Belgium. There is the forwarding of your mail that can be done for only four months at a time and costs €70 for each four months, you must unregister with the commune (city hall), you must tell the tax man that you will be out of the country and change your insurance from one provider to another.

While doing all of this I leaned that my 2008 Belgian taxes were delinquent. What a relief to learn that even being delinquent I may still get a bit of a refund.