Tax

Our multidisciplinary team of tax lawyers and accounting managers with tax training offers comprehensive support and expertise in an increasingly complex and evolving tax environment.

CFG guides companies, both legal entities and natural persons, and their directors in the assessment of decisions affecting tax matters as well as their implementation. Our knowledge and experience allow us to address the most complex issues in an efficient and rational way.

We offer support to our clients most notably in the following areas:

– fulfilment of tax obligations including the introduction of tax forms
– tax risk management,
– tax aspects of accounting,
– defence and assistance in tax audits and tax disputes,
– advice on tax incentives and optimisation for companies,
– tax aspects of restructuring operations,
– requests for advance rulings from the SDA,
– real estate structuring,
– acquisition due diligence,
– benefits and remuneration of staff and directors
– taxation of foreign entities in Belgium.

The progressive regionalization of taxation implies more complex taxation for individuals. Sometimes mere formalities pose an insurmountable task for many taxpayers and tax audits often require comprehensive knowledge of the matter.

CFG Assists clients in:

– the preparation and introduction of tax returns, including those related to complex situations specific to Very High Net Worth Individuals,
– defence and assistance in tax audits and tax disputes,
– structuring of property and real estate
– advice on tax incentives and optimisation for individuals,
– tax risks management

VAT is mainly regulated at European level so that the system applies more or less globally, with the flexibility of each country being well defined. However, VAT remains a complex matter where possible errors often lead to significant negative financial consequences for the taxpayer.

CFG Assists clients in:

– fulfilment of VAT obligations, including the introduction of periodic VAT returns,
– defense and assistance in VAT audits and VAT disputes,
– advice on and optimization of VAT,
– VAT aspects of restructuring operations,
– structuring of real estate,
– acquisition due diligence.

CFG’s experience in and knowledge of the real estate sector allow C.F.G. to guide clients in real estate transactions and provide advice on:

– real estate transactions (share deals and asset deals)
– pre- and post-acquisition structuring (in particular, the rights in rem such as long-term lease, surface rights and usufruct rights),
– assistance in the financing of real estate transactions,
– development of projects (VAT aspects, property taxes, etc.),
– defense and assistance in tax audits and tax disputes.

It is indispensable to ensure that proper arrangements are made for personal assets, which allows in particular:

– for the protection of your personal assets against the actions of third parties, whatever they may be, and in particular vis-à-vis the tax administration, and
– for the minimization of the impact of inheritance taxes, which may be particularly burdensome in certain situations.

CFG assists you in the determination of the organisational strategy and in its implementation. We also intervene in the assistance and execution of inheritance formalities vis-à-vis the administration as well as in the context of litigation procedures in this field.

In the context of growing internationalisation, CFG has a professional network to define an international strategy and to choose the solution best suited to the needs of the client according to the impact on the different countries concerned.

Local and regional taxation has been evolving over the last few years. CFG assists its clients in the analysis of the application of local and regional taxes in the framework of project development as well as in the related litigation phrases that may arise.