Anyone who has ever gone through one knows that a relationship breakdown is misery. Also aware of this situation, the legislator introduced the misery tax to bring some solace. The misery tax is the reduced stamp duty of 1% for ex-spouses and ex-legally cohabiting partners...
The tax courts, at the level of the courts of first instance, were created. The undeniably contradictory position of the regional director came to an end. On the one hand, this position was bound by the general principles of procedural due process and, on the...
Government liability and the unstable equilibrium of the Separation of Powers Thirty years ago, when I came to the bar as an intern, I was able to experience it. The judiciary was not gentle with the executive at the time. This was even the case in...
This is the third time in all the years I've been writing columns for this magazine that the subject of such columns is income from copyright. Few tax provisions have such an eventful history. Over the past ten years, copyright has been the shining star...
Many children may have experienced it again during the past holidays: digging a deep well on the beach is more difficult than expected. The best way to go about it is to dig a wide well. This also applies to intellectual subjects, even to legal...
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...
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. Anyone who thought that hard evidence must be...
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...
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,...
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...