New reporting obligation for tenants to declare certain rent payments: risk of non-deductibility in case of non-compliance!
Who is in scope? This new reporting obligation applies in principle to all legal entities and natural persons who are required to file an income tax return in Belgium. It does not matter whether this concerns personal income tax, corporate income tax, legal entity tax or non-resident tax. However, the reporting obligation is only applicable
Draft law implementing the zero-emission company car as the new standard
As indicated in our newsflashes of 21 April 2021 and of 18 May 2021, it was agreed in the government declaration to adapt the tax and social legislation around mobility to stimulate the green agenda. On 14 September the draft law specifying the fiscal and social treatment of company cars was submitted to The Chamber.
Payments to Cyprus and Luxembourg: subject to new reporting obligation, screen your existing structures
Payments by Belgian companies of over EUR 100K (in total) to recipients in Luxembourg and Cyprus must now be reported individually in a specific form to the tax authorities. If not, they risk being non-deductible for tax purposes. Besides the additional reporting effort that this entails, it also sheds light on those payments which are
