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Whether you are a financial institution, multinational, fund, investor or high net worth individual, we understand your business and the tax pressures you face. Our teams work together across Europe and beyond in the key areas affecting your business including VAT, international taxation, transfer pricing, e-commerce, M&A and investment funds, tax planning and financing. Our experts can help you manage tax control cases and deal with tax authorities as well as manage tax litigation cases. The right tax advice can make a material difference to transaction costs and, in some cases, avert serious consequences.

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17/03/2023
Bel­gi­um: first phase of tax re­form pro­ject
Bel­gi­um's Min­is­ter of Fin­ance, Vin­cent Van Peteghem, re­cently de­tailed his plan for the first phase of Bel­gian tax re­form, which is sched­uled to come in­to ef­fect on 1 Janu­ary 2024.The fol­low­ing art­icle...
Law-Now Tax
07/12/2022
CMS Bel­gi­um ad­vised Col­li­ers on their ac­quis­i­tion of BelSquare
CMS Bel­gi­um ad­vised Col­li­ers, a glob­al lead­er in di­ver­si­fied pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices and in­vest­ment man­age­ment, on the ac­quis­i­tion of a ma­jor­ity in­terest in the Bel­gian real es­tate ad­visor, BelSquare.The...
Deals
06/12/2022
CMS as­sisted Quantessence in ob­tain­ing reg­u­lat­ory ap­prov­al in Bel­gi­um
CMS Bel­gi­um, CMS UK, CMS Prague and CMS France as­sisted lead­ing fin­an­cial tech­no­logy plat­form, Quantessence, in re­lo­cat­ing and ob­tain­ing reg­u­lat­ory ap­prov­al as a Mi­FID in­vest­ment firm in Bel­gi­um, al­low­ing...
Deals
13/10/2022
Bel­gian budget ap­proved: first over­view of tax im­pact
On 11 Oc­to­ber, the Bel­gian fed­er­al budget for 2023 and 2024 was ap­proved. The new budget agree­ment will have a tax im­pact for in­di­vidu­als and com­pan­ies es­tab­lished or op­er­at­ing in Bel­gi­um. Be­low is an...
Law-Now Tax
10/10/2022
CMS as­sists in the set-up of the so­cial im­pact in­vest­ment fund Im­pak­tEU
CMS Bel­gi­um as­sisted the as­set man­age­ment com­pany, In­pulse In­vest­ment Man­ager in set­ting up a so­cial im­pact in­vest­ment fund, Im­pak­tEU, to­geth­er with its part­ner, Funds For Good. Start­ing with nearly EUR...
Deals
08/2022
CMS Tax Glob­al Bro­chure
Over the past two years, en­ter­prises, gov­ern­ments and cit­izens have grappled with un­par­alleled tech­no­lo­gic­al evol­u­tion and new busi­ness mod­els, as well as sig­ni­fic­ant tax re­forms, reg­u­lat­ory changes...
Brochures
02/08/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 4 - Ex­pec­ted im­pact of the EU Ar­ti­fi­cial...
Part 4 - Ex­pec­ted im­pact of the EU Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Reg­u­la­tion, the meta­verse as a work­place In our first art­icle, we ex­amined the nature of the meta­verse, the shared vir­tu­al world. The emer­gence...
Law-Now Insurance
01/08/2022
Tax re­form: the Min­is­ter of Fin­ance presents his plan
The Bel­gian Min­is­ter of Fin­ance has presen­ted his out­line for tax re­form, which should ex­tend over the next ten years.   The an­nounced ob­ject­ive of the re­form is to re­duce the pres­sure on the tax­a­tion...
Law-Now Tax
27/07/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 3 - Data pro­tec­tion chal­lenges, the...
Part 3 - Data pro­tec­tion chal­lenges, the im­port­ance of cy­ber­se­cur­ity, ad­vert­ising reg­u­la­tion in the meta­verse In our first art­icle, we ex­amined the nature of the meta­verse, the shared vir­tu­al world...
Law-Now Insurance
27/07/2022
CMS ad­vised Broek­man Lo­gist­ics in the sale of the former VLS-Group to Van...
CMS ad­vised Broek­man Lo­gist­ics, a glob­al lo­gist­ics ser­vice solu­tions pro­vider, in the sale of Broek­man Lo­gist­ics Bel­gi­um An­t­werp (BL­BA), the former VLS-Group, to Van Mo­er Lo­gist­ics. BL­BA of­fers in­teg­rated...
Deals
19/07/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 2 - Trade­marks and copy­right, NFTs...
Part 2 - Trade­marks and copy­right, NFTs and civil law prin­ciples in the meta­verse In our first art­icle, we ex­amined the nature of the meta­verse, the shared vir­tu­al world. In the meta­verse, trade in vir­tu­al...
Law-Now Insurance
20/06/2022
CMS ad­vised TIS on its ac­quis­i­tion of Cash­force
CMS Ger­many, to­geth­er with CMS Bel­gi­um, ad­vised the Ger­man FinTech TIS (Treas­ury In­tel­li­gence Solu­tions) on its ac­quis­i­tion of Cash­force, a Cash fore­cast­ing & Work­ing Cap­it­al Plat­form. Ger­man CMS team...
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