VAT planning and dispute resolution

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What is the key to managing VAT? Optimise. Reduce. Optimise your VAT deduction methodologies. Reduce your VAT costs. To do this you need clear insight into your current VAT situation, sound VAT principles and controls imbedded in your VAT processes and a well-trained staff who understands your VAT obligations and goals. 

You don’t have to do it alone. We offer you VAT services and expertise in the following areas: 

Real estate

When it comes to real estate, you need to figure out whether VAT will be a cost item to your real estate firm. This depends largely on your country’s VAT regime, the use intended for the building and your level of compliance with tax and legal procedures.

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Telecommunications

Your customers expect a lot from your telecommunications company –prepaid cards, network sharing, mobile payments, international roaming. Each of these carries its own business opportunities, but also several indirect tax challenges.
Understanding what’s happening is half the battle. The other half is crafting a strategy to weather the storm.

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M&A transactions

Putting VAT on your agenda before, during and after an M&A transaction will help you avoid additional costs and pitfalls like:

  • paying non-deductible VAT on deal fees
  • pre-financing VAT on asset deal transactions
  • a clawback of historical deducted input VAT
  • indirect tax burdens blocking day-to-day operations.

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Pharma & life sciences

As the pharmaceutical industry moves more and more towards personalised medicine, operating efficiently requires a brand new approach. Anticipating changes and properly analysing the VAT impact of your transactions might be the advantage you need to move your organisation forward.

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Public sector & international governmental projects

Your organisation is in the public sector. You’re not a business, but you’re being asked to behave like one. The general public and corporate partners are demanding more and more from the services you provide. It’s develop or die.

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Financial services

It’s a fact: if you offer financial services– but are not a bank or insurance company – then VAT is an irrecoverable burden on your organisation. But with appropriate planning and the right advice, you can ease your load.

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Automotive & energy

What impact are indirect taxes having on your bottom line results in the automotive industry? Taking special care of your indirect taxes is a must. If handled properly, you can lower costs and create new opportunities for your business.

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Risk management, VAT & litigation support

Belgian tax authorities take VAT and customs regimes very seriously. This means that you need to make sure your business has policies and procedures in place that limit or exclude VAT or customs assessments and litigation.
Having a strategic approach to answer tax authorities’ questions will help you manage risks and safeguard your rights.

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Your challenges

  • Making your operations more VAT-efficient and improving cash flow
  • Making sure your systems are VAT compliant
  • Ensuring that you have appropriate internal controls and processes in place
  • Keeping up with changes in indirect tax legislation and the risks and opportunities accompanying them
  • Putting the rules of the EU’s VAT package in place in your organisation
  • Managing your cross-border activities
  • Dealing with indirect tax disputes
  • Negotiating rulings with the relevant VAT authorities
  • Setting up a VAT group
  • Integrating acquisitions without sacrificing value

How PwC can help you

We will help you find opportunities to reduce VAT, providing you with:

  • high-level staff training
  • industry focused business reviews of your current business model
  • a clear view of your VAT issues and risks
  • assistance with tax planning on marketing and incentive schemes
  • a VAT-model that fully integrates new entities
  • appropriate internal controls and processes
  • a VAT structure that uses VAT grouping or local and cross-border cost-sharing associations