Tax

HOW WE CAN ADVISE YOU

Our services include Belgian and international tax advisory in the following fields:

Business transactions and corporate reorganisations

Our Tax team assists clients with the conception and implementation of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings or reorganisations, joint ventures, management buyouts, other public or private transactions and project finance transactions.

Capital markets transactions, financial products and structured finance

Our Tax team assist corporate clients and financial institutions in transactions to raise capital, in developing financial products, and in assessing structured finance operations.

Real Estate transactions

Our Tax team works seamlessly together with our Real Estate practice and assists in complex and challenging real estate transactions. Our Tax team hereby advises on specific real estate developments including investment in REITs, sophisticated real estate financing projects, property leasing and sale and lease-back transactions as well as infrastructure developments.

Employee incentive plans

Our Tax team works as one team with our Labour & Employment practice on advising clients, companies and employers, on all aspects of “remunerations”, including employee and executive incentive plans. We assist with the design and implementation of alternative payment schemes as well as with tax ruling requests. Besides, we also advise pension funds with tax issues that might affect their particular field of operations.

Intellectual Property

Our Tax team provides efficient solutions for developing and exploiting intellectual property rights, relying where needed on the expertise of our IT lawyers, who are amongst the best experts in the field.

Estate planning

Our Tax team advises high profile individuals, high net worth individuals and families on all aspects of wealth and the structuring of their private estate as well as on inheritance planning. In doing so, we assist our private clients in donations before notaries in Belgium or abroad, gifts, the setting up of estate planning vehicles, marital regimes, wills, and alternative wealth and estate planning.

Tax Litigation

Our Tax team has a strong litigation practice, covering both direct and indirect tax matters. We advise our clients on information requests, tax audits and tax dawn raids, and assist our clients in settlement negotiations with the tax authorities and, where necessary, with the Public Prosecutor’s Office. We also assist our clients in any administrative tax controversy with the tax authorities and in tax litigation before the Belgian tribunals and courts of appeal, as well as before the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

OUR CLIENTS

Our clients are Belgian and multinational companies active in a wide range of sectors. We also advise and assist a wide range of small and medium sized enterprises, high profile individuals, high net worth individuals and families, non-profit entities and public entities.

YOUR DEDICATED TEAM

With three Partners and five Associates, our Tax team works seamlessly together with the firm’s other practice groups, providing a multidisciplinary approach to our clients, both in transactional related work as in litigation work.

One of our three Partners is one of the 20 lawyers admitted to the Belgian Supreme Court.

OUR KEY STRENGTHS

Our Tax team works as one team and combines sharp knowledge and broad experience in rendering innovative, business oriented quality tax advice, whether on a tax stand-alone basis for purely tax related matters or as an integral part of a full legal service offered by the firm. In doing so, our Tax team strives to minimize the tax burden and to structure operations in the most efficient way, whilst complying with the ever evolving most complex tax legislation.

Since tax law is not only about tax law, but encompasses various other legal fields, our Tax team works closely together with other practices and provides a multidisciplinary approach which enables clients to benefit from the highest quality advice in a cost effective and efficient manner.

Our Tax team focusses on resolving complex tax disputes and adapts its strategy to our client needs. Where possible, we strive to settle tax disputes without tax litigation, but if so required, we vigorously assist our clients in any administrative tax controversy on in any tax litigation before the tribunals, courts of appeal, the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court, and/or the European Courts.