Authors: Bart Van den Bussche and Bart Lombaerts (PwC)Publication date: 24/02/2021 In our newsflash dated 6 May 2020, we informed you about the extended say on pay of shareholders introduced by the Revised Shareholders’ Rights Directive (SRD II) and implemented into Belgian law for Belgian quoted companies. Remuneration report: extended transparency on individual
Author: Pieter Deré (PwC)Publication date: 28/01/2021 The Belgian Tax Authorities just published an update regarding the DAC6 reporting deadlines for arrangements to be reported in January and February 2021. Due to communication difficulties linked to COVID-19 Pandemic, the Belgian tax administration will apply an administrative tolerance for all arrangements that
Author: Nancy De Beule (PwC)Publication date: 07/01/2021 As foreseen, on 1 January 2021, the transition period during which the UK was still considered a Member State of the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) has ended. Among a variety of topics, this is also relevant for Belgian tax purposes, and
Author: Michael Vangenechten (PwC) Publication date: 17/11/2020 On 26 February 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgments in the so-called “Danish cases”. The underlying question of these cases was whether dividend and interest payments could be exempt from withholding tax under the EU Parent
Auteur: Sandrine Schaumont (PwC) Publicatiedatum: 04/11/2020 Introduction The program law regarding the budget statement of 2021 has recently been issued by the Belgian Vivaldi government. Again an opportunity for the PwC tax reform news room to highlight the most important tax measures that have been introduced from a personal, corporate
Author: Pieter Deré (PwC) Publication date: 30/09/2020 Today, 7 political parties reached an agreement on the formation of a new Belgian government (the so-called Vivaldi government). While the last edits are being made to the agreement, the broad outline is becoming clear. The agreement mentions the intention for a relance
Author: Philippe Vyncke (PwC) Publication date: 16/07/2020 The shareholders’ register is an important cornerstone for every company. A shareholders’ register provides an overview of who the shareholders are, when they became shareholders and which shares a company has. Paper shareholders’ registers involve multiple risks. They can get lost, entries can
Author: Maarten Temmerman (PwC) Publication date: 20/05/2020 On 16 May 2020, after the first wave of supportive measures to mitigate the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, the Council of Ministers adopted a draft law including new tax recovery measures. These provisions have as main aim to avoid a series of
Auteur:Philip Maertens (PwC) Publicatiedatum: 13/03/2020 The outbreak and spreading of the coronavirus (COVID-19) leaves almost no one unaffected. It has become a worldwide phenomenon impacting personal and family life, governments, businesses and the economies across the globe. Depending on the location and anticipated impact of the virus, certain (sometimes extreme)
Author: Evi Geerts (PwC) Publication date: 14/11/2019 On 8 November, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretariat published a Public consultation document: the Global Anti-Base Erosion Proposal (‘GloBE’) (Pillar II) which seeks stakeholders’ views on the introduction of common global minimum tax rules across the more than 130 countries participating in the