Tax form (pension sheet 281.11)

For questions concerning taxes, please contact the Federal Public Service FinanceOpens in a new window directly.

Not everyone still receives the tax form on paper.
You will only receive a tax form on paper if you fall within one of the following categories:

• you live abroad and you are not a digital client with a confirmed email address on mypension.be,
• you are the administrator of a person who receives a pension,
• you are the widow, widower or heir of a person who received a pension,
• you live in Belgium and you submit your tax return on paper.

You do not belong to one of the categories mentioned above? In that case, you will not receive a tax form on paper. Your tax form can be found in your online pension file on mypension.beOpens in a new window.

A tax form may also not have been drawn up for one of the following reasons:

• We did not pay you in 2025.
• We only paid you non-taxable amounts in 2025 (for example industrial accidents interests, war pension, ...).
• The paid amounts were returned to us (for example due to a closed account, expired cheques, ...) and could not be paid anew in 2026.

In these cases, it is perfectly normal that you did not receive a tax form. Do not worry, everything is in order and you do not have to do anything.

The non-taxable income you receive is not mentioned in your tax form. This concerns the following benefits:

• industrial accidents interests,
• war pension,
• particular compensations to disabled persons,
• heating benefit,
• pension bonus.

When you reach the statutory retirement age, your retirement pension is split between the sections 211 and 228, depending on the month in which you were born.

For example: if you turned the statutory retirement age on 15 May 2025, you will find this year:

• in section 211: the monthly amounts from January up to and including May 2025
• In section 228: the monthly amounts from June up to and including December 2025

Certain benefits, such as the Guaranteed Income for Elderly Persons, are always mentioned in section 211, even after your statutory retirement age.

Your holiday allowance is already mentioned in the correct section in your tax form 281.11. The section in which it is mentioned depends on the type of pension or benefit you receive or on your age.

You holiday allowance is mentioned:

• in section 211 if you are younger than the statutory retirement age, for all taxable rights, with the exception of a survivor's pension or transitional allowance;
• in section 228 if you have reached the statutory retirement age, for all taxable rights, with the exception of a survivor's pension or transitional allowance;
• in section 229 if you receive a survivor's pension or transitional allowance.
  
  

You had an outstanding pension debt relating to previous income years. You received a certificate 281.25 for this debt.

Certificate 281.25, also known as a negative certificate, is used to deduct an amount from the income year to which it relates.

The Federal Public Service Finance uses this certificate to revise your tax assessment and to recalculate it on the basis of the reduced income resulting from your pension debt. This may possibly result in a refund of overpaid taxes.

If you have not received any news from the Federal Public Service Finance after 6 months, please contact them yourself. You can find the contact details of your tax office on your tax demand or on the website www.finances.belgium.be/en/individuals/contactOpens in a new window .

This certificate only concerns the debts you have with the Federal Pensions Service, and not any maintenance allowances or debts with other creditors.

The Federal Pensions Service does not automatically split the revenues for the portion of the year in which you lived in Belgium and the portion of the year in which you lived abroad.

We therefore advise you to contact us through our contact form.

Inform us of the two periods of the income year the FPS Finance wants to split: the period that will be taxed in Belgium and the period that will be taxed abroad.

Every year, we automatically send the certificates for the maintenance allowances that were deducted in the previous year. If you want to receive the certificate earlier or did not automatically receive it, you can request it through our contact form.

For questions concerning taxes, please contact the Federal Public Service FinanceOpens in a new window directly.

For questions concerning taxes, please contact the Federal Public Service FinanceOpens in a new window directly.

For questions concerning taxes, please contact the Federal Public Service FinanceOpens in a new window directly.

You are receiving a household rate pension (in the scheme for employees and/or for self-employed persons) because this is more advantageous than two pensions as a single person? In this case, we split the amount for tax purposes in proportion to the duration of your careers. In this way, both you and your spouse can benefit from the tax reduction.

This is why you receive two separate tax forms.

Please note:

• This splitting only happens when your spouse is over the statutory retirement age.
• The pension is only split for tax purposes. This does not alter the amount of the household rate pension.