"TAILOR-MADE TAX ADVICE..."

Our specialized team of tax lawyers can provide general tax advisory services in a multitude of areas of taxation, by offering ongoing or transaction-based assistance, preparing written opinions or providing updated information on specific tax issues.
Our general advisory services are structured along the following lines of expertise:

Advisory and planning in direct taxation:

• Corporate income tax - both from a domestic and from an international perspective;
• Individual taxation, including stock option plans and foreign executives schemes;
• Investment incentives and profit repatriation;
• Withholding taxes and local taxes;
• International tax law and European Union tax legislation
• Assisting and advising foreign clients in establishing a business in Belgium.

Advisory and planning in indirect taxation:

• Value Added Tax - domestic VAT law as well as European VAT law;
• Customs & Excise duties;
• Transfer taxes.

We focus on tax structuring and tax due diligence, with a view to providing our clients with the most efficient tax strategy aimed at not only diminishing acquisition tax costs, but also at optimizing the future tax position of both the acquisition company and the target company.

We have accumulated significant experience in advising clients on a wide variety of transactions including corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, real estate acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, developing group taxation, cross-border mergers, etc.

We offer the complete range of tax due diligence, tax structuring both in the pre-acquisition phase and in the post-acquisition phase. We assist clients with due diligence tax services, drafting of tax clauses in acquisition agreements, etc.

Our specialized real estate tax team can assist you in the course of the investment, development, operational and exit phases, providing you with useful guidelines for conducting your real estate business in Belgium. We work together with our colleagues in Taxand to assist you in the implementation of international tax structures designed to maximize net profits during the holding period or at the exit from such investments.

Our clients in the real estate area include investment companies, real estate developers, construction companies, banks, leasing companies, as well as real estate and professional service providers considering real estate as their core business.

In this respect, we offer the entire range of direct and indirect income taxes, as well as transfer taxes, which are relevant in structuring the acquisition and ownership of Belgian real estate.

As lawyers, we defend our clients' interests. We assist them in the negotiation phase and in the requesting of advanced rulings, an area of practice in which we have gained extensive experience. We also take care of tax disputes, both on an administrative and on a judicial level. We have experience both in domestic and in international disputes, including in the application of tax treaty provisions, EU law, case law, etc ...