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Moving expenses

Tax risk: 🔥🔥 | Deductibility: 0% - 100%

Written by Maud WAUTHOZ

🏬 Office relocation: 100% deductible

Moving expenses are fully deductible if they relate to a strictly professional move, such as relocating your office or practice.

Make sure to keep all supporting documents: lease agreement, proof of office relocation, invoices / receipts (to be submitted under your expenses).

🚚 Private move motivated by professional reasons

An expense is only deductible if it has a direct link to the professional activity.

Moving your home to reduce your commute is considered a personal decision, and therefore not deductible, as it does not correspond to expenses "necessary for the activity" in the tax sense.

However, if you can prove that the move was explicitly intended to create or relocate a place of professional activity, and not to move into a new home for personal reasons, it may be possible to deduct (at least partially) your moving expenses.

🏠 Private home partially used for your activity

If you use a room in your home as a professional office and the lease or fit-out specifies this, part of the costs could qualify as professional expenses (but not the entire private move). The costs related to your move can then be partially deducted according to the business use percentage (surface area of the office relative to the total surface area, for example).

📊 Summary

Situation

Deductible?

Comment

Office or practice relocation

✅ Fully

Professional expense

Private move to get closer to work

❌ No

Personal expense, no direct link to the activity

Move + setting up a clearly defined professional office

✅ Partially

Documented business use, deduction proportion based on surface area

Mixed use of private home for professional purposes

✅ Partially

Calculated proportion, justification required

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