Have you received a property withholding tax assessment notice? If so, it is worthwhile not only to check the calculation, but also to verify whether you are entitled to a proportional reduction due to unproductiveness.

The digitalisation of VAT obligations in Europe is accelerating. With VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA), the European Union is taking a step towards a system in which invoice data will in future be shared with the tax authorities almost in real time. Belgium is also preparing for this. At first glance, many businesses may see this as simply “even more e-invoicing”. In reality, however, the impact goes much further: it affects not only your invoicing, but also your data, processes, systems and tax risks.

In recent years, we have seen a striking trend: popular brands that were once impossible to imagine missing from store shelves are running into financial difficulties and being taken over by investment companies. Examples include brands such as Aéropostale, Champion, Forever 21, Lee, Reebok and Spyder.

In a previous article, we already discussed the impact of your marital property regime on the shares of your business. If you are married under the statutory regime, it is often the case that the shares (or at least the patrimonial value of those shares) form part of the joint estate. In that case, upon divorce, half of the value of those shares belongs to one spouse and the other half belongs to the other spouse.

A great deal has already been published about the European directive on pay transparency. The five core obligations, the reporting thresholds and the pay range in job vacancies: those rules are now widely known. What is missing from most articles is the legal change with the greatest practical impact: the reversal of the burden of proof. And contrary to what is often assumed, that burden of proof applies from the very first employee, not only from one hundred employees onwards. The reporting obligation applies only to larger companies, but the burden of proof, the right to information and the adjustments to vacancies and contracts apply to every employer.