Latest news & developments
Due date for both the belgian corporate income tax return and the local form for assessment year 2022
Extended due date & Accelerated refund Whilst the general due date for filing is the end of the seventh month after year-end closing, an additional term till 17 October 2022 has now been confirmed for Belgian companies, Belgian legal entities and foreign entities with a financial year-end from 31 December 2021 up to 28 February
W&I insurance in M&A transactions
In recent years we have seen an increase in W&I insurance and it is expected that this trend will continue. This does not come as a surprise as W&I insurance can help establishing deal certainty and peace of mind post-closing. We frequently receive questions on what W&I insurance is and how it works in practice.
Update COVID-19 and cross-border employment: agreement with the Netherlands no longer applicable as from 1 July 2022
In our newsflashes of 24 March 2022 and 25 March 2022 we referred to the official extension of the mutual agreement between Belgium and its neighboring countries (i.e. Germany, the Netherlands, France and Luxembourg) until 30 June 2022. The Belgian and the Dutch authorities have now officially confirmed that the application of the mutual COVID-19
Mergers and (partial) demergers in case of negative net equity
Mergers and (partial) demergers in case of negative net equity Although nothing in Belgian company law or tax legislation explicitly indicates that companies with a negative net equity are not allowed to participate in a merger (or demerger or partial demerger), legal doctrine is divided as to whether such a transaction is possible if
New provisions grant judicial police powers to Belgian tax inspectors to combat fraud
The law of 17 March 2022 regarding various fiscal provisions to combat fraud has recently been published and adopted. It includes new tax provisions that remove the existing legal obstacles for officials of the Belgian tax administration to participate in judicial investigations. This law provides for a new legal framework that allows designated tax authority officials to
VAT fixed establishment – Positive decision of the ECJ in the “Berlin Chemie” case
The issue with parent-subsidiary VAT fixed establishment The concept of VAT fixed establishment has recently been the source of litigation in several Member States. In those cases, tax authorities argue that a subsidiary is the VAT fixed establishment of its parent company. In Belgium, we have seen this growing trend whereby the Belgian VAT authorities
Tax reform night- and shift labor wage withholding tax incentive
On March 24, the Belgian parliament voted new legislation introducing a number of changes with respect to the night – and shift labor wage withholding tax incentive (and some changes to the other wage withholding tax incentives). Below we list the most important changes (The amendments will apply to remuneration paid or awarded as from
First call Interreg North-West Europe launched
The first call of the new 2021-2027 programme of Interreg North-West Europe (NWE), was launched on 22 March. The programme can fund 60% of a transnational project with 3 partners of 3 different NWE countries. The deadline for the first step application of this call is the 15th of June 2022. A grand total of
