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05/12/24
05/12/24
Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers legt nieuwe stukken in organisatorische puzzel met NXTGEN-2024

Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers zet een nieuwe stap voor duurzame groei met blijvende focus op de cliënt. Het kantoor verwelkomt immers twee nieuwe vennoten en een counsel, de NXTGEN-2024: …

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19/11/24
19/11/24
Liberius welcomes new EU Competition and Trade Law Partner in Brussels

Liberius is thrilled to announce the arrival of David Henry as a Partner in its Brussels-based EU, Competition & Trade Practice. David, a member of the Brussels Bar and a quali…

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17/11/24
17/11/24
Toestemming voor boekenonderzoek: geen vrijgeleide voor fiscale visitatie

In een arrest van 3 oktober 2024 heeft het Hof van Cassatie de krijtlijnen voor een fiscale visitatie verder afgebakend en daarbij nogmaals het belang van een geldige toestemming b…

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18/12/24
European Commission consultation on the revision of its Stat…

On 11 December 2024, the European Commission launched a public consultation…

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16/12/24
Class 23 insurance: Opportunity for non-resident insurers to…

On 7 November 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) hande…

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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Belgian and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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27/10/23
EU Cybersecurity Month: The looming threat of a single phishing click to your business

The EU Cybersecurity Month (ECSM) is an annual awareness campaign held every October throughout Europe, orchestrated by European and national institut…

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26/10/23
European Commission adopts first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards in relation to the Corpora…

On 31 July 2023, The European Commission (the Commission) adopted a delegated regulation supplementing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directiv…

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25/10/23
Enkel netto-meerwaarde op aandelen belastbaar

Meerwaarden op aandelen zijn belastbaar als divers inkomen als zij niet gerealiseerd worden binnen het normaal beheer van privévermogen. De fiscale we…

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23/10/23
Trade Defense Instruments: What to Expect From the Anti-coercion Instrument?

On October 3, 2023, the European Parliament adopted a report on a new trade defense instrument in the European Union (herein referred to as the “EU” a…

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19/10/23
Uw bedrijfsvastgoed is onvrijwillig improductief: vrijgesteld van onroerende voorheffing?

De onroerende voorheffing (OV) op een bedrijfspand kan stevig doorwegen. Dat geldt des te meer als het onroerend goed door omstandigheden improductief…

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19/10/23
Empowering the European retail investor: unveiling the EU Commission’s new proposal for financial trust and tr…

The EU Commission recently published a draft proposal for a new omnibus directive, aiming at reinforcing and harmonising retail investor protection ac…

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02/10/23
EU General Court confirms unlawful tax State aid scheme on Belgian Excess Profit rulings

On 20 September 2023, the General Court released a series of judgments holding that the Belgian excess profit rulings (“EPRs”) qualified as a State ai…

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17/09/23
How to Meet the New Notification Obligations Under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation

As from October 2023, companies receiving financial contributions from third countries will have to report these to the European Commission when engag…

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14/09/23
Fiscale regularisatie in de laatste rechte lijn: hoog tijd voor actie!

Met ingang van 1 januari 2024 komt een einde aan de wettelijke regeling om fiscale zonden te regulariseren. Tot en met eind december 2023 kunnen fisca…

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29/08/23
De kaaimantaks anno 2023: een kameleon met vele gedaanten

De kaaimantaks werd in 2015 geïntroduceerd en heeft ondertussen heel wat aanpassingen ondergaan. Het blijkt bijzonder complexe wetgeving waarover nog …

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22/08/23
Taxpayer can revoke consent to dawn raid of premises

Until now, there was no unanimity on the necessity for the taxpayer’s consent when the tax authorities want to execute an unannounced dawn raid at the…

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18/08/23
Uitbreng van vastgoed middels ontbinding-vereffening BV: VLABEL aan het woord

In dit artikel gaan we nader in op de uitbreng van vastgoed middels ontbinding-vereffening naar aanleiding van het herwerkte standpunt van VLABEL in d…

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17/08/23
Colour shifting risks: cartel fines for alleged indirect info exchange upheld

Companies should be wary of the novel approach taken by two national competition authorities towards indirect information exchange. A Dutch and a Belg…

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16/08/23
Interest paid to qualifying foreign EEA AIFs may now benefit from the Belgian WHT exemption.

On 26 July, a new Royal Decree amending the Royal Decree implementing the Belgian Income tax code (RD/BITC) was published. The Decree includes various…

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07/08/23
Reforming the Union Customs Code: a proposal from the European Commission towards harmonizing European Union c…

On May 17, 2023, ten years after the EU adopted its Union Customs Code (UCC), the European Commission published a proposal intended to begin the compl…

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03/08/23
Data Privacy Framework (DPF) vs. Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC): At-A-Glance Comparison

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The decision concludes that th…

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26/07/23
New payment services and financial data access package proposed by the European Commission

On 28 June 2023, the European Commission introduced a package of three proposals aimed at improving the functioning of the payment services market and…

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21/07/23
Deposit for returnable containers - part of the selling price or not?

In a recent case, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) had to consider whether the ‘selling price’ under EU consumer protection rules should include …

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20/07/23
EU Considers Adding More Teeth to Sanctions Enforcement with Adoption of Draft Law Criminalizing Sanctions Eva…

On July 6, 2023, members of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (CLC) adopted a draft negotiating mandate that would target those viol…

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18/07/23
EU reaches agreement on Data Act – Comprehensive EU data law is on the way

On 27 June 2023, the European Parliament and Council resolved the remaining open points and reached a political agreement on the EU Data Act, paving t…

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