At the "Belgian Legal Awards 2012" ceremony, the AFSCHRIFT law firm was designated "Tax Law Firm of the Year." The AFSCHRIFT Law firm gets this prestigious award for the second time. It is the o...

Thierry Afschrift will participate as a speaker at the " Rencontres au Sommet de Deauville  ", organized by Challenger organization.  ...

The English Journal" Corporate INTL" has granted the award of the best " Corporate Tax Law Firm of the Year " for Belgium to the AFSCHRIFT Law firm.  ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which is the name given to the U.S. tax authorities, announced on January 9 the reopening of the "Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program" (www.irs.gov). This is a vo...

The English Journal" Corporate INTL  " have recognized the Afschrift Law Firm as a leading expert for Business Crime Law advice in Switzerland. One could find enclosed the article published for t...

Income from patrimony is clearly those that are affected the most by the new budget measures.  Based on our general experience and knowledge of the government's intentions at this time (the bills a...

Until now, when companies or self-employed persons realized a capital gain on business assets, they could only benefit of the "spread taxation" of this capital gains with respect of several conditio...

An association for the defense of taxpayers has recently brought a claim before the Belgian Constitutional Court for the annulment of some of the provisions of the Act of April 14, 2011.  Under thos...

As we know, a law of July 2006 established a system of joint and several liability of company's managers (responsible for the daily management), in case of failure to meet the duty to pay to the T...

“Larcier Formation” is organizing a symposium on the Banking Secrecy in Luxembourg on December 6, 2011    ...

The "semaine fiscale ", a weekly "paper" Journal created by Fiscalnet, is organizing a symposium on notional interest : simulation and abusive schemes. Speakers will be Roland ROSOUX, Axel Haelterman ...

 The next 20th of October,  KLUWER FORMATIONS organizes a symposium on " Regulatory issues for compliance and risks officers in banking and insurance ". ...

An aspect of the lifting of the Belgian banking secrecy remained unnoticed until now: the cost of the announced measures.

This study is probably not the first of its kind, but it is the first in which Belgium got the sad top place of the most taxed country in the world. The ranking is related to the taxation of profess...

Initially, the legal settlement Act provided - expressly – that the Tax Authority had a preferred creditor status.

The European Society for Banking and Financal law is organizing a symposium on "the Lifting of Banking Secrecy”, in the framework of its sequence of seminars "les 4 saisons - De Vier Jaargetijde...

From now on, the law allows, under certain conditions, the prosecution to deal with the defendants, whether they are corporate or individual. On condition that a sum of money is paid, those deals put ...

The British magazine "Intercontinental Finance" announced in its issue of June 2011 that the Association Afschrift was named "Top Tax Law Specialist Law Firm" for Belgium. One can find enclosed the ...

New judgment from the Court of first Instance of Mons gives a ruling on a case in which a defect in administrative proceeding was raised. (Civ.Mons, 5janvier2011)

A bill putting an end to the bank secrecy, even tough bank secrecy is already very limited in Belgium, was adopted by the Belgian “Commison de la Chambre”. This will deny again the essenti...

The “Fédération Royal du Notariat Belge ( FRNB)” recently announce the electronic   Belgian ID will allow, by 2012, citizens to consult all deeds that he/her signed....

Unions of civil servants demonstrate and strike once again. Unions claim there is no enough of them to do tax investigations that they consider necessary.

The prestigious English journal “World Finance” designated the AFSCHRIFT Law Firm as the “Best Tax Law Firm” for Belgium in 2011. This honor is in addition to the profession...

To denounce others to Authorities is unfortunately a frequent behavior that responds to the basest instincts of human beings: the desire for revenge, jealousy, collaboration with the ruling power.

The press had conveyed the annual report of the “Inspection Special de impôts” (the taxes' special inspection) in a very favourable way. In that report, the latter boasts about undertaki...

The Court of Appeal of Liege has just handed down a decision favourable to the taxpayer's right to remain silent in a tax case.

In the outgoing Leterme II government, nobody knew for sure which countries were to appear in the new tax haven list. Some States, dissatisfied to appear on the list, had threatened to put an end to...

The financial crisis and the high taxation States' reaction turned the tax lawyers' habits up side down. The war against tax haven and the threats on some form of bank secrecy will make obsolete cer...

In a decision of 29 April 2010, the Court of Appeal of Brussels has set the record straight about presumptions and the conclusive force of official reports of the VAT administration.