Lună: iulie 2017

Double Taxation of dividends: the Belgian judge imposes the application of the International Convention preventing double taxation between France and Belgium

Date: 19th July 2017 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

Public Hearing on Sustainable Finance „Sustainable finance products sold to savers and retail investors must comply with EU rules on fair, clear and not misleading information”

Date: 18th July 2017 Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE spoke this morning at the Public Hearing on Sustainable Finance. He reminded that EU savers and individual investors are mostly long-term oriented (much more than institutional investors) and represent the main source of the long-term funding of the EU

Moody’s, Prospectus Regulation, Implementation of MiFID II … ESMA has been quite busy these past few weeks… and it is not over yet…

Date: 10th July 2017 Prospectus Regulation Adopted in June 2017 as part of the Capital Markets Union Action Plan, the Prospectus Regulation aims to it make easier and cheaper for companies to access capital and improve the user-friendliness for investors of SME prospectuses. ESMA published 3 consultation papers on the