Our tax department advises businesses, company directors, the self-employed, non-profits, Belgian residents and expatriates on a daily basis. We cover the whole of Belgian taxation: corporate income tax, personal income tax, VAT, movable and payroll withholding tax, registration duties, as well as the international dimensions: double-taxation treaties, taxation of non-residents, cross-border structuring. We design the solutions, we implement them with our accounting and payroll teams, and we defend them — naturally — before the tax authorities.

• Director remuneration We optimise remuneration by combining salary/dividend arbitration, VVPRbis and liquidation reserve regimes, benefits in kind and supplementary pension plans.
• Operations and structuring We structure incorporations, holding formations, reorganisations and transfers so that the tax impact is anticipated from the start.
• Returns and reform monitoring We prepare and check tax returns and anticipate the effect of reforms on your situation.
• Rulings and audits We file ruling requests when legal certainty requires it and assist you during tax audits, from preparation to representation, negotiation and litigation.

Your first challenge is effectiveness: not leaving legitimate optimisations dormant, whether concerning your remuneration, the structure of your group or the taxation of your investments. The second is security: an optimisation is only worth something if it withstands an audit; reclassifications and case law evolve, and what was accepted yesterday is not necessarily accepted today. The third is anticipation: tax reforms follow one another in Belgium at a brisk pace, and the decisions you make today — company form, dividend policy, real-estate investment — produce tax effects for years.

No off-the-shelf solution: we start from your situation, your objectives and your time horizon. We quantify the scenarios before recommending, we explain both the benefits and the risks, and we only propose what we are prepared to defend before the authorities. Because our tax specialists work alongside our accountants and HR advisors, your optimisations are genuinely implemented — in your returns, in your payroll, in your statutes — and not merely recorded in a memo.

This approach takes shape notably in a regular tax review meeting, the frequency of which depends on the pricing plan chosen: at least once a year, ideally before the closing of your financial year, we review your situation — results, remuneration, projects, legislative developments — to activate the levers still available and anticipate the following year. It is often during these meetings that the most profitable decisions are taken: adjusting a dividend policy, bringing forward or postponing an investment, adapting a benefit in kind, awarding a bonus, building a liquidation reserve.

Taxation is not something you endure in May (or worse, in September) of the following year!

• Company directors and management companies
• Medical and liberal professions
• Real-estate taxation
• Groups and holdings
• International and expatriate taxation
• VAT and special regimes
• VAT groups
• Tax-related wealth and succession planning
• Personalised tax reform monitoring

• Right tax burden: You pay the right amount of tax: no more through negligence, no less through recklessness.
• Informed decisions: You decide on the basis of quantified scenarios and clear explanations.
• Audit readiness: You are prepared for audits rather than caught out by them.
• Personalised monitoring: A partner follows tax developments and alerts you when your situation warrants adjustment.

Our ITAA-certified accountants and tax advisors advise and defend their clients daily, from the self-employed to SMEs. This daily practice — returns, rulings, audits, litigation — feeds advice rooted in reality, not in theory. And because taxation, accounting, payroll and wealth play out together, you will find all these skills under one roof at Catalyst.