It is never convenient to have a dispute with a tax authority. The impact on the taxpayer should not be overestimated. Yet, more often than not, the saying “better safe than sorry” is applied in taxation matters.

Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers has specialised in settling disputes with the tax authorities. But there is more. The expertise gained as a result is used to guide clients in such a way that tax disputes are altogether avoided.

Tax guidance prevents tax disputes.

Regularisations

Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers has extensive experience in advising on all possible tax regularisations. The firm’s lawyers have been guiding clients in all possible fiscal regularisations, starting with the preparation of the Unique Liberatory Declaration (DLU/EBA) in 2004.

Tax law

Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers is there to guide you, whatever your tax queries or problems. The firm provides assistance with tax audits and in discussions and disputes with the tax authorities, in both the administrative stage and court procedures.

What is it that the tax administration can or cannot do? How realistic is the claim submitted by the tax authorities? Which arguments can be used to resolve the matter in the client’s favour in court?

Rulings

Prior decisions regarding tax discussions can provide the necessary legal certainty where required. Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers has the required in-house expertise and experience to guide you and your advisors with the application.

Advice

In addition to traditional tax advice, the firm also carries out a tax risk analysis. It is not enough to devise a structure: it must also be able to withstand the scrutiny of the tax administration or even the courts.

The tax administration is often just as creative as the taxpayer himself when it comes to designing and combating tax structures and optimisations. Administrative positions and tax jurisprudence regarding anti-abuse provisions are closely followed by Tuerlinckx Tax Lawyers.

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Column J. Tuerlinckx in Trends: Misery tax squared(14/11/2024)

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 that is due when ex-partners want to buy each other out of what used to be their shared home after their relationship has ended. The misery tax is a mitigation because the basic stamp duty rate is 2.5%.
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Column J. Tuerlinckx in Trends: Basket in Tax Law. (30/05/2024)

You are an entrepreneur. Not that you have something to hide, but you can’t help feel uneasy whenever you are subject to a tax audit. On the other hand, you know all too well that ‘being compliant’ and the corresponding verification of such compliance is an inevitable part of doing business. And when Big Brother – what a modern government has become – carries out an audit, it is simply inconvenient. That must be accepted.
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Column J. Tuerlinckx in Trends : Fiscal pacification (02/04/2024)

25 years ago almost to the day, the ‘new’ tax dispute resolution legislation was enacted with the acts of 15 and 27 March 1999. It was a major reform. It put a definitive end to the jurisdictional function of the objection stage.
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Columnn J. Tuerlinckx in Trends: Getting withholding tax from company managers: an ongoing battle (29/2/2024)

We need to talk about withholding tax. As natural persons, we all pay taxes on our professional income. The personal income tax is settled for each calendar year. You declare your income in the middle of the calendar year following the one in which you received that income