# Advanced withdrawal from vested benefits account to purchase property in the EU **URL:** \ **Category:** Investing / Others\ **Created:** [August 5, 2024, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/advanced-withdrawal-from-vested-benefits-account-to-purchase-property-in-the-eu/13553 "2024-08-05T16:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![portugalfire](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@portugalfire](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/portugalfire)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/advanced-withdrawal-from-vested-benefits-account-to-purchase-property-in-the-eu/13553/3 "2024-08-09T09:11:30Z")
I recently had a very similar discussion on this post: [Withdrawing 3a pillar when leaving Switzerland - #27 by Patirou](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/withdrawing-3a-pillar-when-leaving-switzerland/6860/27) My tax advisor told me the same thing: we have to pay withdrawal taxes in Switzerland, which are low and optimized for Finpension, and then we’d only be doing a money transfer from Switzerland to Belgium and therefore there would be no tax applied to such a transfer. It’s just a transfer, it’s not a taxable event. But same as you, I still find it hard to believe 🙂 Anyways, I’d be very interested in getting your feedback from that experience! I myself am planning to not work for 3 months after leaving Switzerland so that I can withdraw the entire pillar 2. Nevertheless, if I can’t for some reason, I will do the same as you: move it to a vested account and use it as possible. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/advanced-withdrawal-from-vested-benefits-account-to-purchase-property-in-the-eu/13553)._