FISCAL LAW

This assistance is backed up with the drafting of agreements, the creation of ad hoc structures and help with handling formalities and related declarations.

 

GVA can assist its customers in the context of fiscal adjustments and negotiations with tax offices.

 

Gaëtan Van Elder & Associates can help in the context of litigation with fiscal authorities at every stage of the different administrative procedures and check the legality of these procedures (declarations, requests for information, inspections, claims, tax notices, default taxation, restrictions, reports, seizures and enforcement, miscellaneous notifications, etc.).

 

The firm can defend the interests of its customers for both civil and criminal law. 

- Optimising the acquisition, holding and transmission of real estate (professional buildings, main and secondary residences, investment property) and assets (works of art, ships, securities, intellectual property rights, etc.), whether Belgian or foreign, held by companies, individuals or other entities.

These operations are carried out via share deals, rights in rem (usufruct-financial leases-long lease rights), donations (Belgian or other), testaments… or using more complex Belgian or foreign structures such as foundations, common law firms, trusts, administratiekantoor, fiducie;

 

- Optimising the acquisition, ownership and transmission of businesses (including the due diligence procedure, sales agreements, enforceability formalities);

 

- Providing advice at each stage in the life of companies and legal persons: incorporation, modification of the articles of association, increasing capital, restructuring (mergers, spin-offs and partial spin-offs, branch contributions and universal contributions), repurchase of own shares, liquidation;

 

- Providing advice to corporate groups (structuring, financing, intellectual property rights);

 

- Optimising fiscality for company charges and reductions;

 

- Providing advice for company directors, shareholders, managers, sports men and women, and artists in view of structuring and optimising their professional activities, remuneration and additional income (management firm, salary split, benefits of all types, stock options, group insurance, etc.);

 

 

- Drafting declarations for inheritances and transfer following death;

 

- Optimising local fiscality (property tax, circulation duties, occupancy duties);

 

- Assisting non-residents wishing to live in Belgium and Belgian residents wishing to expatriate;

 

- Analysing the Belgian fiscal situation in international contexts involving Belgium (situations for assets, residences of individuals, head offices of companies or sites, and source of income), thanks to its knowledge of European fiscal law and international conventions signed with Belgium;

 

- GVA can also boast extensive expertise in registration duties and real estate V.A.T..