De Wever I – Federal government agreement – Main considerations from a corporate income tax perspective
On 31 January 2025 a new Belgian federal government agreement was reached by the so-called ‘Arizona’ coalition. This federal government agreement contains – amongst others – various new tax measures and related changes to the existing legislation with a focus to reduce the tax burden on labour, to increase Belgium’s competitiveness and to try to
Significant changes expected to the Belgian investment deduction regime
As previously announced (see also our newsflash of 10 October 2023), the Belgian Federal Government reached an agreement on the federal budget in the first half of October 2023. One of the important tax measures resulting from this budget agreement relates to specific changes to the Belgian investment deduction regime, a measure to support the
The Belgian Minister of Finance proposes long awaited tax reform.
Finance Minister Vincent Van Peteghem launched his proposal for a first phase in the Belgian tax reform. This proposal was already announced several months ago and is now being put formally on the table. What we are looking at today is still a proposal that will now go into the legislative process. The aim is
