On June 19th 2006, Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders and Chief Ho Hau Wah of the Macao SAR signed a double taxation exemption agreement. The agreement, which is based on the OECD model convention with respect to taxes on income and on capital, is the third of its kind concluded by Macao, which until then […]

The European Commission has recently sent four (4!) formal requests to the Belgian government in order to end various kinds of discriminatory tax treatment.
Flemish Registration Duties
The first request relates to Article 61/3 of the Flemish Registration Duties Code, according to which a certain amount of the registration duties paid previously on the purchase of a […]