{"type":"document","data":{"id":"cf350db6-8b7c-4b49-96d6-67cc98efcc32","localeString":"en-GB","publishDate":"2025-12-23T09:16:25.617+01:00","contentType":"onecms:categoryPage","hasMacro":false,"flexPageMetadata":{"afmBanner":false,"robotInstruction":{"noIndex":false,"noFollow":false},"description":"The greater your wealth, the more complex it is to manage, and the more far reaching the legal and tax consequences of certain choices."},"mainHeaderZone":{"componentType":"categoryHeader","coreHeader":{"title":"Estate Planning","subtitle":"Tax and legal experts support you — in collaboration with your Private Banker — in the structuring, management, and transfer of your wealth. They integrate financial, legal, tax, personal, and professional elements into a single, comprehensive plan."}},"flexZone":{"flexComponents":[{"componentType":"paragraph","alignedImage":{"position":"top","transformBaseUrl":"https://assets.ing.com/transform/ddc495ea-e381-4816-a730-be6ecd05ae45/PB-SUCCESSION-1612x800","original":"https://assets.ing.com/m/5943f0479f7ca56f/original/PB-SUCCESSION-1612x800.jpg","extension":"jpg"}},{"componentType":"accordion","accordionList":[{"title":"Developing a Financial Plan","richBody":{"value":"<p>Creating a financial plan involves analyzing and optimizing the building, management, protection, and transfer of your wealth.<br />We can provide a comprehensive assessment of your known current assets to forecast future income, asset value, withdrawal plans, and more. This gives you a clear overview of your financial situation — both personally and professionally.<br />You will receive financial scenarios that help you stay ahead in life and business.<br />Good financial planning allows you to maintain your standard of living — today and tomorrow — and helps you achieve your dreams and ambitions.</p>"}},{"title":"Estate planning","richBody":{"value":"<p>Would you like to know who will inherit what and what inheritance taxes will be due? We can provide you with a clear overview and, through an inheritance calculation tool, we verify the amount of inheritance tax.<br />We then advise you on developing an optimized financial plan — both fiscally and legally — for structuring and transferring your wealth.</p>"},"textLinks":[{"url":"/en/private-banking/estate-planning/legal-tax-advice-wealth","text":"Read more"}]},{"title":"Gifts","richBody":{"value":"<p>When making a gift, you transfer part of your wealth during your lifetime. The smaller your estate at the time of death, the lower the inheritance taxes.<br />We guide you — possibly in collaboration with your notary — in preparing the donation(s) you wish to make as part of your estate planning.</p>"},"textLinks":[{"url":"/en/private-banking/estate-planning/wap-gifts","text":"Read more"}]},{"title":"The civil law partnerships","richBody":{"value":"<p>Civil law partnerships allows you to maintain control and secure the necessary income when transferring your wealth (for example, your securities account or shares in your family business) to the next generation.<br />We tailor the articles of association to your personal situation. Even after the partnetship is established, our tax and legal experts assist you in the day-to-day management of your company.</p>"},"textLinks":[{"url":"/en/private-banking/estate-planning/civil-law-partnership","text":"Read more"}]}]},{"componentType":"sectionTitle","title":"Wealth transfer without worries: how to tackle family and tax challenges?"},{"componentType":"paragraph","title":"Wealth planning is a topical issue.","richBody":{"value":"<p>In the studio of Kanaal Z/Canal Z - Trends Z, Jeroen Bruls, Head of Wealth Engineering and Nadia Maes <span lang=\"NL-BE\" dir=\"ltr\"><span><span><span>Tax &amp; Legal Expert</span></span></span></span>, both at ING Private Banking &amp; Wealth Management, explain how we approach this concretely and put it into practice.</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://assets.ing.com/asset/8b313e91-1de4-45d5-8f7d-938707bd00ac/mp4/z-extra_private_banking_a_la_carte_Nadia_Maes.mp4\">Watch the video in French</a></li><li><a href=\"https://assets.ing.com/asset/ad8728e1-09a9-40c9-a587-285424bafb7a/mp4/z-extra_private_banking_a_la_carte_Jeroen_Bruls.mp4\">Watch the video in Dutch</a></li></ul>"}},{"componentType":"testimonial","testimonialList":[{"authorInfo":{"authorName":"Peter Adams","jobTitle":"CEO ING Belgium","image":{"transformBaseUrl":"https://assets.ing.com/transform/53c4f1c7-1ba4-45bc-aa74-9c3460283f6f/Peter-Adams","type":"image","width":1298,"altTextNL":"Peter Adams","original":"https://assets.ing.com/m/3bf4d5d54f8d2352/original/Peter-Adams.PNG","extension":"png"}},"testimonialText":{"body":"At ING Private Banking & Wealth Management, we give you specialised legal and tax advice on creating, managing and passing on your assets. What you have built up so well yourself, you naturally want to pass on in the best possible way. We are always available to listen to your needs. If your needs, your situation or the regulations change, we make immediate adjustments."}}]},{"componentType":"sectionTitle","title":"Interested in our approach ?"},{"componentType":"cards","cards":[{"componentType":"serviceCard","cardType":"service","cardSize":"small","title":"Already an ING Private Banking client?","intro":"Contact your Private Banker via the ING Banking app!","image":{"transformBaseUrl":"https://assets.ing.com/transform/4c8f79aa-f653-430e-bd15-7a94e7640b59/Fingerprint-phone-hand-spot","type":"image","width":615,"original":"https://assets.ing.com/m/6e6f3de4c512a23f/original/Fingerprint-phone-hand-spot.png","extension":"png"},"link":{"url":"/en/private-banking/contact/contact-us-private-banking"}},{"componentType":"serviceCard","cardType":"service","cardSize":"small","title":"Want to find out more about Private Banking?","intro":"Leave us your details and we will get back to you!","image":{"transformBaseUrl":"https://assets.ing.com/transform/67010ed0-a27d-4c66-b37c-a6bfb9a308c2/icon-Video-call-woman-spot","type":"image","width":847,"original":"https://assets.ing.com/m/7e02e75f5d5f534d/original/icon-Video-call-woman-spot.png","extension":"png"},"link":{"url":"https://www.ing.be/en/individuals/services/contact-us-appointment?journey=invper&flow-step=call-me-back"}}]}]},"complementaryZone":{"flexComponents":[{"componentType":"sectionTitle","title":"Also interesting !"},{"componentType":"cards","cards":[{"componentType":"productCard","cardType":"product","cardSize":"small","title":"Entrepreneurs","intro":"As strategic partner, we strive to help you think ahead","image":{"transformBaseUrl":"https://assets.ing.com/transform/f439c502-941c-46a6-aa02-d61a25d6c643/Private-Banking-FAMILY-1612x800","type":"image","width":1612,"original":"https://assets.ing.com/m/6c1faa44ff293b24/original/Private-Banking-FAMILY-1612x800.jpg","extension":"jpg"},"link":{}}]}]}}}