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4 Countries disappear from OECD list of tax havens
The OECD list of tax havens has recently been updated again. Four countries were removed from the list. Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda and Dominica have recently been dropped from the so-called OECD list in the field of taxation.
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Submission of the transfer pricing notification form will be simpler!
Companies required to submit an annual CbC (Country-by-Country) notification form now only have to do that when a change is made.
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Checklist: Is your company already GDPR compliant? Take the test!
On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation, commonly known as GDPR, was launched. With this handy checklist, you can quickly find out whether your company is already GDPR-compliant at the moment or not..
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Pay attention to withholding tax on contracts with a foreign company
If you receive compensation from a foreign company for the sale of licences or even for the provision of a service, like consultancy, some foreign companies will withhold tax from this fee. The reasoning behind this withholding tax is that the compensation qualifies as a royalty or technical fee in the double taxation treaty.
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1 year of GDPR: this is what did and didn't happen
On the 25th of May it will be one year to the day since the dreaded GDPR legislation took effect. The panic that took hold last year is nowhere to be seen today. So has nothing actually happened over the past year?
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Is your business prepared for transfer pricing audits?
The number of transfer pricing checks has therefore increased dramatically since the beginning of 2019. And yet the concept of ‘transfer pricing’ still seems to be a distant concern for a great many companies. Should these companies be concerned?
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Employee stock option plan in Belgium: reporting of taxable benefits and withholding tax on wages also required in an international context
Are you looking to reward your employees individually and bind them to the company to some extent? Then a stock option plan, offering discounted or free shares can offer a solution here.
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The new Belgian Company Code voted and approved!
It has been a daunting task, but on 28 February 2019 the new Belgian Company Code was nonetheless approved. This new Belgian Company Code will take effect in stages as from 1 May 2019. The new Code entails quite a few substantial changes; the legislator had stipulated that the new Code must be simplified and be more flexible. Below is a brief outline of a few key points:
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Our bank details have changed...
Or maybe not? This could have been in an email from finance@vlt.be (instead of finance@vdl.be). And if you had not paid attention, all your payments to us would have gone to the bank account of a fraudster.
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EORI Number and E.T. 14.000 permit: Two Essentials for the Movement of Goods Outside the EU
The European internal market has allowed many SMEs and large companies to flourish and grow. After some time, a company often wants to enter other markets and do business in and with countries outside the European Union.
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Guideline on the refund of historic VAT for optional leasing with VAT
Further to the recent legislative amendment, as of 1 January 2019, under certain conditions there is an option to apply VAT to lease agreements relating to (new) buildings. Not only does this optional levy open up the right to deduct the VAT incurred after 1 January 2019, but also the historic VAT. On 10 January 2019, on its website the Tax Authorities published a guideline concerning the refund of this historic VAT.
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Developments in the Law of Evidentiary Requirements – Threshold Amounts and Digitisation
The law of evidentiary requirements laid down in our Civil Code needs to be changed. On 31 October 2018, the government submitted a bill on the law of evidence. Minister of Justice Koen Geens aims to make the Belgian Civil Code more in touch with people and contemporary society and is also addressing the issue of the law on evidentiary requirements.
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New single permit procedure implemented on 1 January 2019
In a previous article we told you that the Regions and the Federal State were working on the introduction of the single permit. This single permit is the combined permit which allows a national of a non-EU country to live and work in Belgium. The procedure has now been developed in full and has been in force in Belgium since 1 January 2019. This procedure means that Belgium has finally transposed Directive 2011/98/EU.
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Brexit deal has been rejected: what’s next?
Almost 3 years after the British people voted to exit the European Union, last night, British parliament rejected by a large majority Prime Minister Theresa May’s and the European Union’s Brexit deal. A no-deal scenario is more than ever likely and it is highly recommended that companies are prepared for what comes next.
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