Stay ahead in 2025 – Compliance timeline
With regulatory expectations growing stronger, ensuring timely compliance has never been more crucial. Companies are increasingly under pressure to meet deadlines and avoid costly penalties, a challenge that continues to affect many businesses. To help you stay on top of the deadlines, we’re pleased to provide a (non exhaustive) compliance timeline for 2025. Designed to
Investment Deduction: Royal Decree lists published. Consider applying this incentive!
In order to encourage investments in the green transition, the Belgian Government has revamped the existing investment deduction system, effective for investments made as from 1 January 2025 (see also our newsflash of 31 May 2024 and 2 April 2024). As a recap, the new regime is organised around three ‘tracks’: The general investment deduction
EU Launches Consultation Phase on CBAM Implementing Regulation for Authorized Declarants
The definitive phase of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) begins in January 2026, and the European Commission has unveiled the draft Implementing Regulation outlining the criteria and procedures to obtain the status of an Authorized CBAM Declarant (1). Starting from January 2026, all operators importing goods under the CBAM scope — such as cement,
How key interest rate cuts and stabilising inflation might impact your transfer pricing policy
The past few years the financial markets have been characterised by a significant increase in interest rates battling the surge in inflation throughout the world. Since the arm’s length principle requires intercompany transactions to appropriately reflect current market conditions, these exogenous elements have led companies to update their financing policies and more specifically their transfer
Statutory financial statements filing deadline has passed: time for action
Belgian companies having a 31 December year-end should have deposited their statutory financial statements with the National Bank of Belgium (“NBB”) by 31 July 2024 at the very latest. Late filing results in a number of negative consequences from a financial, director’s liability and corporate income tax perspective (see below). If your company’s statutory financial
Pillar 2 notification: Administrative tolerance until 16 September
On 29 May 2024, the Royal Decree was published requiring Belgian entities of a Multinational Group to register with the Crossroads Bank of Enterprises (KBO or BCE) in order to comply with the Pillar 2 compliance formalities within 30 days after the first day of the first year in scope of Pillar 2 (or before
Is your company ready for the upcoming compliance deadline?
Statutory financial statements As you probably are aware, Belgian companies should annually deposit their statutory financial statements with the National Bank of Belgium. Filing should be done within 30 days after the financial accounts have been approved by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders and no later than 7 months after the end of the
Tax Bites Podcast – What’s going on at the UN? The draft Terms of Reference for negotiating a Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
In this episode, we share our first impressions on the ‘Zero Draft’ Terms of Reference (ToR) for a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation released by the United Nations (UN) on 7 June 2024. Furthermore, we provide a brief overview of other important international and European tax developments. Tune in to get our first take on
