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  • VAT

    ‘I want to retain control over my business flows
    and manage my Indirect Tax compliance function efficiently.’

VAT

Avoid VAT surprises and seize opportunities

VAT is a continuously evolving  and notoriously complicated tax. In a globalising economy (e.g. Brexit, E-commerce, …), with rising VAT rates and a climate in which regulations are subject to constant change, you need to have constant access to the most recent information, not only in Belgium but across the globe as well.

Our VAT specialists make it their business to know enough about yours so that they can anticipate opportunities and problems, and act quickly to deliver a solution, leaving you to get on with your business. We never forget the most important aspects of any VAT solution: it must be practical so you know what to do, it must be legally correct  and it must not create a different problem elsewhere.

VAT becomes more and more a matter of compliance. Increasingly more authorities move towards real-time, fully digital reporting and invest in data mining tools to perform audits. Non-compliance leads to ever greater financial risks. BDO can assist you to manage your VAT compliance functions accurately and efficiently. Either by training in-house talent and assisting you with the implementation of powerful digital tools or by taking the VAT compliance out of your hands.

Policy makers around the world (including Belgium) are using taxation to achieve their health, energy and environmental goals and tap new sources of income. BDO can also provide specialist advice and compliance support on these existing and emerging indirect taxes and levies, such as environmental taxes, energy taxes… and alike. 

An international team of VAT and Indirect Taxes experts

Thanks to its global network, BDO is thoroughly familiar with the regulations that apply in more than 150 countries, in and outside of the EU. Our Belgian team can rely on the support of a wide network and industry specialists both in Belgium and worldwide, and so can you and your company. For a number of countries, BDO even has a special country desk (USA, UK, the Netherlands, France, Germany and China). You get clear advice on all aspects in the field of Value Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST), Sales and use Taxes (SUT) and other consumption taxes, whether domestic or international.

BDO will help you with what you’re looking for

  • a proactive VAT  review (your company’s check-up, which includes due diligence investigations)
  • recommendations on ways to optimise your VAT position , guidance during structural changes (new trade flows, legal reorganizations, digitization or implementation of new accounting software, etc.) and filing requests for rulings, …
  • support during a tax audit or during a dispute with the VAT administration
  • the execution of local or foreign VAT statistical formalities for periodic declarations and related returns
  • VAT training and support to in-house teams
  • coordination or execution of international VAT compliance projects
  • ...

More information about international VAT developments

Through the global consolidation of knowledge and regular consultation, we have acquired indispensable information and experience, and we monitor VAT and other Indirect taxes developments daily. We invite you to download our regular newsletter, the Indirect Tax News.