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The lawyers of Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers ensure that you stay up-to-date on current tax topics by publishing articles on our own expertise platform.

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01 July 2022
Jan Tuerlinckx

Be careful what you measure (Column in Trends 30/06/2022)

Defining a strategy is not an easy task for a company. It must first set a mission, a vision and a goal. Critical success factors, abbreviated as CSFs, are the key elements to achieve that goal. CSFs are closely intertwined with the mission and strategic objectives
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19 May 2022
Jan Tuerlinckx

Cafetaria plans under high pressure

Everything was hunky-dory until the last quarter of 2021. Then, energy prices shot through the roof, with all the ensuing consequences for purchasing power. Everyone's energy bill went up. Or, almost everyone's.
  • Corporate
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14 January 2022

The last dance for tax-free capital gains

Ask a business consultant how he would describe the last quarter of a calendar year. Bet he’ll answer something like “hectic”. Every year, whether the exemption from capital gains on shares will be maintained is a main cause of concern for entrepreneurs and business leaders.
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12 November 2021
Jan Tuerlinckx

The new tax collectors

Come the end of September, days and nights are of equal length for the second time in the year. It’s the equinox. Then darkness sets in earlier and earlier each day. This darkness provides insight into the economy. It tells you which companies are still working late at night: the lights are still on for bookkeepers, accountants and tax consultants who are filing tax returns. Even at weekends, their lights are still burning during that period, although this is less noticeable.
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01 October 2021
Jan Tuerlinckx

Fiscal self-destruction

The withholding tax system keeps the country on course. As long as the proceeds from this tax increase, the Minister of Finance will not lose sleep over the state of affairs at the Federal Public Service Finance.” The comment of a trade union leader about the tax authorities. Withholding tax is the beating heart of our treasury. Every month, it provides the necessary liquidity, straight from the pockets of Belgium’s wage earners. Law philosophers who venture into taxation praise payroll tax – and withholding taxes in general – as an efficient way to collect tax, and rightly so.
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16 August 2021
Jan Tuerlinckx

Drinks for everyone

A panic-stricken aide bursts in, interrupting a government meeting. Gasping for breath, he stammers that a wind of discontent is blowing among the people. There is unrest and, in his opinion, it would not be unwise for their excellencies the ministers to show some token of appreciation for the people. People are suffering under the yoke of the coronavirus pandemic and the limitations and sacrifices that come with it.
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20 May 2021
Jan Tuerlinckx

The right to digital orderliness

This year’s Chief Technology Officer of the Year award does not go to a person, but to the legion of coronaviruses. Acting as a stress test for digitization, Covid-19 has digitally catapulted a number of businesses and organisations a few light years into the future. Yet, the urge for digitization is by no means new: it has been around for almost two decades.
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26 March 2021
Jan Tuerlinckx

The horror of raw data

In a national recruitment campaign to attract new e-audit professionals, the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance noted the following: “Tax fraud is perhaps the crime in which the most creative systems are devised and used. E-auditors have a keen eye for spotting secrets and exposing the fraud hiding between bits and bytes. They are professional, creative and flexible in their job, without neglecting their private life.” These are the special forces under the Revenue’s command: e-audits.
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24 February 2021

Taxation on a human scale

Tax law is a matter of public policy. This is a legal doctrine which means, among other things, that tax law must be applied at all times, that it cannot be deviated from, not even by the court. The competence of everyone and everything related to it is limited to its rigorous implementation. After all, paying taxes is the cornerstone of our society.
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17 February 2021
Jan Tuerlinckx

Taxation on a human scale

Tax law is a matter of public policy. This is a legal doctrine which means, among other things, that tax law must be applied at all times, that it cannot be deviated from, not even by the court. The competence of everyone and everything related to it is limited to its rigorous implementation. After all, paying taxes is the cornerstone of our society.
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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.
  • Criminal
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09 November 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

Racketeering the Dutch

Governments would like us taxpayers to believe that there is only one battle, and that would be the fight against tax fraud. There is at least one other battle, but the authorities would rather not tell us about it. It is an internal struggle that they prefer to keep under wraps.
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28 September 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

Belly up due to VAT

Studies predicted it, and it is now becoming a reality: the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has become a liquidity crisis. For companies trying to shift up a gear, this is a nightmare. While their invoice payments are delayed if paid at all, they nonetheless need to meet their own financial obligations in good time.
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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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29 July 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

The tax administration’s duty of care in question

A Dutch entrepreneur got into trouble with his company during the previous credit crisis. He came up with a creative solution: he asked his insurer for his accrued pension capital and temporarily transferred it to the company, with the intention of replenishing that capital as soon as his equity had recovered.
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12 June 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

Don’t always squeeze every last drop

THESE ARE STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES. New insights and concepts that were simmering below the surface are emerging, even in taxation. In this respect, this manifests itself in a particular form of paternalism, and this time not only in Belgium.
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30 April 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

Tax law, physical presence rules

OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, we’ve all been on lockdown. We’ve been working from home and travelling was totally out of the question. In this context, we’ve had to make do with what we had, trying our best. For some jobs, teleworking is not an option at all, for others more so. Working from home and remotely has replaced working in a workplace.
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29 April 2020

Agreements and clarity are crucial, also with regard to taxation affecting cross-border employees

The coronavirus crisis is presenting us with unprecedented challenges. International taxation is no exception. In Belgium, a blanket entry and exit ban on non-essential travel has been in effect since 18 March 2020. In addition, teleworking is mandatory for all employees whose function allows it.
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26 March 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

From algorithm to tunnel vision

DE DIGITALISERING ZOU het leven makkelijker moeten maken: meer doen met minder inspanningen of met minder arbeidskrachten.
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24 February 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

Everyone is equal before the law

THIS IS ONE OF THE fundamental principles of our society: everyone is equal before the law. As such, it is the pillar of our democratic system. It constitutes the basis of Articles 10 and 11 of the principle of equality enshrined in the Constitution.
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15 January 2020
Jan Tuerlinckx

Accounting errors at Belgium Ltd are no small matter

‘It’s not that simple, you say? That could very well be true, but we are not blind. We can see what kind of cars your top people drive. We can see the luxury enshrined within your offices.’ Jan Tuerlinckx, partner at Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers, addresses the State of Belgium in a letter.
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25 November 2019
Jan Tuerlinckx

Finance is an enterprise in trouble

IT MADE THE NEWS the other day: the Belgian government is only an average performer where it comes to digitisation. And we may even consider ourselves fortunate in having Tax-on-web to boost our reputation.
  • Tax
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18 October 2019
Jan Tuerlinckx

Abuse of confidence

THE VAT RETURN can be quite a challenge for a business, all the more so because it has to be made once every three months or even once a month.
  • Corporate
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18 October 2019
Jan Tuerlinckx

When Big Brother is mistaken

DATA IS FOR the economy what oil used to be. It also becomes more and more important for the fiscal control. New IT applications are supposed to help optimise that control.
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