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On Tuesday, 19 September from 15:00 to 16:30 in the European Parliament in Brussels, a public hearing on the “New EU common system for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax abuse in the area of withholding taxes” will take place. The hearing aims to address the burdensome withholding tax refund procedures for

Individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors are significantly demotivated or hampered from investing cross-border within the EU due to: The widespread de facto double taxation of investment income within the “Single Market” (for example the so-called Belgian-French Tax Treaty to avoid double taxation is in reality organizing the double taxation of Belgian residents holding shares of French-domiciled

At the beginning of February 2018, in support of the Capital Markets Union initiative, the European Commission released a Code of Conduct on Withholding Tax (WHT) aimed at reducing barriers hampering cross-border investments for investors by reducing the double taxation whereby the investor is taxed both at the source of the dividend as well as

Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, was invited to address the European Commission’s (EC) ‘Public Hearing on a simpler Withholding Tax procedure for Europe’. The EC just released a Code of Conduct on withholding tax aimed at improving the refund and/or relief at source of current withholding taxes (WHT) charged by Member States within

According to a Belgian law passed in 1980, only professionals can benefit from a tax deduction. An individual shareholder of a foreign company will first be taxed abroad on his financial assets and will then be taxed in Belgium. In its ruling handed down by the Cour de Cassation, the Belgian judge pointed out that this law

As it stands Belgian taxpayers holding French shares are doubly taxed on their dividends. This double taxation is limited by a bilateral agreement between Belgium and France (and other countries), but it exists. Now a decision by the French highest administrative court regarding a case involving a Belgian holding Frenchshares could set a precedent throughout the European Union by challenging the current principles of doubletaxation.  This could even have consequences for the budgets of the EU member states, since this free movement of capital could be invoked in similar

Analysis conducted by UK consumer group Which? shows that 9 out of 10 UK banks did not fully pass on last year`s interest rate rise from the Bank of England to consumers. The numbers presented by Which? were outlined in a recent article published by The Times, showing annual losses of £600 million to British

Morningstar, the investment research provider, put the finger on the weak spot. Its latest findings on the UK fund market show that the number of "closet tracker" funds that charge high fees for active management – while in reality they simply follow an index – has more than doubled in the UK in the last 12 months. Quoted in last Sunday’s edition

This is not a given, since those Member States currently avoid refunding or granting tax treaty relief at source for more than €6 billion per year according to the European Commission. In support of the Capital Markets Union initiative, this new Code of Conduct aims to reduce the barriers hampering cross-border investments for (individual) investors

BETTER FINANCE, alongside other NGOs, urges members of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee to ensure that the new ESG Regulation improves the reliability, comparability and transparency of ESG Ratings in the EU and in particular to: 1. mandate ESG ratings to follow a double materiality approach, therefore taking into consideration companies’ exposure to ESG

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