Indirect tax compliance

Whether your organisation stays local or plays on an international stage, you are legally obliged to comply with VAT requirements – often in several countries at once.Managing the different facets of VAT in a cost-efficient manner is a key to your success.

Your VAT obligations include:

• VAT registration
• invoicing
• periodic filing of VAT returns and recapitulative statements
• payment and recovery of your VAT return
• refund claims of foreign VAT

Your challenges

You are:

• a foreign company doing business in Belgium
• a company with offices or business abroad that incurs a substantial amount of foreign VAT that you want to reclaim without having an in-country VAT registration
• operating on a pan-European or multi-regional level and have to comply with the various VAT requirements of different EU countries
• operating a shared service centre to fulfil your group’s VAT obligations on a central level

How PwC can help you

We can help:

• analyse your need for Belgian or EU VAT registration
• claim refunds on your foreign VAT
• coordinate your pan-European and global VAT compliance
• provide you with a temporary staff to help you fulfil your VAT compliance requirements
• train your staff on the different VAT compliance requirements across the EU and the globe
• set up the required compliance and control processes for your indirect tax shared service centre, including electronic filing procedures with the customs, VAT and Intrastat authorities