ESMA issues new enforcement priorities for 2014
The European Securities and Markets Authority (the ESMA) has published its European Common Enforcement Priorities (the Priorities) for 2014. These Priorities identify topics that the ESMA, together with European national enforcers, see as a key focus of their examinations of listed entities’ IFRS financial statements. The aim of the common enforcement priorities is to achieve a high
VAT : incorporated company directors and liquidators subject to normal VAT rules
Services rendered by incorporated company directors and liquidators will be subject to VAT as from 1 January 2015. This stems from the fact that the former tolerance to opt for non-taxation will be cancelled as per 1 January 2015. This may have consequences for entities without a full VAT deduction right and for which services
New FSMA guidelines on the approval process for independent financial planners
On 4 November 2014, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (‘FSMA’) published a Memorandum dated 1st November 2014 on its website on the access to the legal status of independent financial planner and related approval process with the FSMA (the ‘Memorandum’). The Belgian Act of 25 April 2014 on the legal status and supervision of
Belgian reporting obligation for payments to tax havens
Belgian requirements for payments to ‘tax havens’ As from 1 January 2010, companies subject to Belgian corporate income tax or Belgian non-resident corporate income tax are obliged to declare direct or indirect payments exceeding EUR 100,000 to recipients established in so-called ‘tax havens’. The reporting obligation applies to both cash payments and payments in kind.
OECD publishes PE discussion draft (artificial avoidance)
The OECD has published its discussion draft on the Preventing of Artificial Avoidance of permanent establishment (PE) Status. This publication follows the BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) timeline. A fundamental change to the existing PE rules, with a potentially wide impact on many structures currently in use by MNCs, are proposed in the OECD
