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Arizona coalition agreement: Employee tax related measures
Monday, 03 February 2025
The Belgian federal coalition agreement includes multiple tax measures. The overview below summarizes the main announced changes regarding compensation and benefits, wage withholding tax, employee international mobility and pensions.
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Government agreement: expected tax reforms
Monday, 03 February 2025
With the start of the Arizona government, several tax reforms that were already in the pipeline have been clarified. These include, among other things, the introduction of a "solidarity contribution,"…
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FASTER Directive published in Official Journal of the EU
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
On 10 January 2025, the council directive on faster and safer relief of excess withholding taxes (“FASTER”) was published in the official journal of the EU.
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Pillar 2 Newsflash – OECD publications on globe information return
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Today the OECD provided 2 publications with respect to the GloBE Information Return (“GIR”), on the one hand guidance and clarifications on how to complete the GIR, and on the…
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Four New Partners at Tiberghien
Tuesday, 07 January 2025
We are pleased to announce that Quentin Masure, Stein De Maeijer, Gilles Van Namen, and Ahmed El Jilali have been appointed as partners as of January 1, 2025. These internal…
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Luxembourg Tax Update: Vote of new tax measures and clarifications
Monday, 23 December 2024
On December 2024, the Luxembourg Parliament passed the Bill N°8388 (the ‘Bill’) introducing several new tax measures, including: An amendment and simplification of the minimum net wealth tax regime; A…
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VAT and Director fees : opportunities to reclaim undue VAT in Luxembourg
Thursday, 12 December 2024
Almost a year after the ruling of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) in the case C-288/22 “TP”, a Circular has finally been published by the VAT authorities to clarify…
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Update: The New ‘VAT Chain’ – Key Changes Starting 1 January 2025!
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
With the reform of the VAT chain, the legislator is introducing a series of new VAT compliance and procedural measures, which will have a significant impact on VAT taxpayers. The…
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European Court of Justice case opens up WHT reclaim possibilities for insurance companies
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
The European Court of Justice decided on November 7, 2024, that the levying of withholding taxes on dividends received by foreign insurance companies on their investments relating to unit-linked insurance…
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Lexology Index 2024 ranks Tiberghien Lawyers
Friday, 15 November 2024
We are immensely pleased to announce that the Lexology Index (formerly known as Who’s Who Legal) rankings have recognized Gerd D Goyvaerts and Alain Van Geel as Thought Leaders in…
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Luxembourg: upcoming changes regarding filing formalities with the Trade and Companies Register (RCSL)
Thursday, 12 September 2024
As of 12 November 2024, the Luxembourg Business Registers (the “LBR”) will implement a few changes to the filing formalities with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register (Registre de Commerce…
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Pillar 2 prepayment system
Friday, 06 September 2024
The Belgian tax authorities (FPS Finance) announced that from 2 September 2024 multinational enterprises (MNE) and large domestic groups subject to the minimum tax for MNE groups and large domestic…
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First Luxembourg Case Law on the Specific Anti-Abuse Rule of Parent-Subsidiary Directive
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
On 31 July 2024, the Luxembourg Administrative Court applied the specific anti-abuse rule of the Parent-Subsidiary Directive as transposed into the Luxembourg income tax law (PSD SAAR) for the first…
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Clarifications on the Luxembourg tax treatment of a dissolution without liquidation
Thursday, 08 August 2024
Main takeaways: A Circular L.I.R. n°170/1, 170bis/1, I.C.C n°44, I.Fort. n°55 (“the Circular”) has been issued by the Luxembourg tax authorities on 19 July 2024 bringing some clarifications on the tax…
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Tiberghien shortlisted for ITR Tax Law Firm & Indirect Tax Law Firm of the Year
Friday, 26 July 2024
We are proud to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for the 2024 ITR EMEA Tax Awards in two categories! We’re competing for the award of Tax Law Firm of the…
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Tiberghien Lawyers ranked 'Band 1' in Private Wealth Law by Chambers
Thursday, 18 July 2024
We are extremely proud to announce that Tiberghien Lawyers have been awarded a 'Band 1' ranking in Private Wealth Law by Chambers for the ninth time in a row! Alain…
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FASTER initiative – New amendments by the EU Council
Thursday, 27 June 2024
On 14 May 2024, the EU Council reached a political agreement on an amended proposal of the Directive on Faster and Safer Relief of Excess Withholding Taxes (FASTER Directive). The…
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Belgium mandating B2B e-invoicing from 1 January 2026
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Many other European and non-European countries preceded Belgium on the e-invoicing topic. This, together with the EU Commission proposal “VAT in the Digital Age” (click here), pushed Belgium to also introduce…
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Pillar 2 in Belgium - action required before 13 July 2024
Friday, 07 June 2024
The Belgian Pillar 2 transposition law was recently amended, in part to incorporate the most recent additional OECD Commentary. This law also provides that “Pillar 2 groups” will (have to)…
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Luxembourg draft law published 23 May 2024 contains a series of tax measures and clarifications
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Main takeaways: On 23 May 2024, the Minister of Finance submitted a draft law No. 8388 with the Luxembourg Parliament (the “Draft Law”) proposing several new tax measures, mainly: Amendment…