What if you and your assets are threatened under criminal law? First, it is important to understand which technical offence is invoked as the basis for the criminal law claim.

 In a criminal defence without prior fiscal and technical analysis, we, as a tax-litigation firm, believe that it is the unmistakable and necessary added value for the taxpayer under criminal investigation.

If you are investigated under criminal law, no effort should be spared.

Anti-money laundering legislation

Worldwide, efforts are being deployed to achieve financial transparency. Banking secrecy has been brought to its knees. Nowadays, the government will require justification for every asset we own.

The office assists professionals who need to apply the ‘know-your-client’ or the preventive anti-money laundering legislation.

Criminal tax law

Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers defends taxpayers and their advisors in cases of criminal tax law.

If a client is at risk of becoming the subject of a criminal investigation into tax fraud or money laundering, Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers defends the interests of the client concerned at a criminal and tax law level.

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03 October 2023
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Column Jan Tuerlinckx in Trends: Things can change in the judiciary (28/09/2023)

There once was an entrepreneur. No, this is not the start of a fairy tale, but of my career thirty years ago. That entrepreneur was being swindled by one of his employees, but he didn't take it lying down. He ingeniously set up a system of checks to catch the thief and prove the theft. This did not happen overnight, however
03 February 2023
Jan Tuerlinckx

Tax liability, tax penalty

Suppose – purely hypothetically – that you drove much too fast. And to make matters worse, you also got caught on a speed camera. Then, you will of course face a criminal penalty. However, if you do not agree with the amicable settlement offered to you, you will continue to enjoy the presumption of innocence, until a judge convicts you definitively of that offence. It is important for a sentence to only be enforceable once the judiciary has made its final ruling. In other words, after you have defended yourself in all objectivity before an independent and impartial court.
22 December 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

Anti-money laundering regulations have gone too far

There was an avalanche of Belgian top tax experts’ comments on Twitter a few weeks ago, following the Supreme Court ruling of 13 October 2020. The stumbling block was the burden of proof in money laundering cases.
24 August 2020
Dave van Moppes

Transposition of the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive: preliminary draft law

The transposition of the 5th EU anti-money laundering directive (AML) into Belgian law is currently the subject of a preliminary draft law containing various provisions to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing (Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism - AML/CTF) and to restrict the use of cash.
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