Deloitte Belgium Insights

Simon Cowan, partner in Tax Management Consulting for Deloitte Belgium’s Global Tax Centre, discusses how organisations are improving the period-end close for tax through changes to people, processes, data and technology

Simon Cowan, partner in Tax Management Consulting for Deloitte Belgium’s Global Tax Centre, discusses Tax Risk Management and outlines the actions that businesses can take to make it work effectively.

Ivan Massin, Deloitte Indirect Tax Director and VAT specialist, outlines the key points in the Second Invoicing Directive and explains how this will affect companies in Belgium.

Staf Jongen, Deloitte head of tax knowledge management and learning, interviews Geert Lowagie, Partner specialised in corporate and international tax, about the most important tax measures in the budget 2013 agreement that the Belgian government reached on 20 November 2012.

E-invoicing has been in place for more than a decade now but has not generated so far a real enthusiasm. Actions have recently been taken to tackle the obstacles that EU VAT legislation still imposes on e-invoicing.