Personalia
Paul Verhaeghe (Kortrijk, 1972) is practicing law since 1998 and is a member of the Dutch Bar Association in Brussels, where he has his head office. He is also a member of the West-Flanders Bar Association. He is mainly active in tax law. In addition, he is familiar with matters involving taxation, such as financial criminal law, insurance law, liability law for accounting professions and inheritances.
After his studies at the University of Ghent, where he obtained his law degree, he followed an additional study in tax law at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Belgian Association of Tax Lawyers. He won cases befor the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Belgian Constitutional court, and the Belgian High Court.
He is particularly interested in updating tax law of digital business models. He closely follows developments in this matter and attempts to contribute by participating to public requests for input and writing articles.
Publications
Paul Verhaeghe has already shared his valued vision in several publications. Below you can open them one by one.
Vision text 05/11/2023
How a drop in US aid to Ukraine may hasten a digital tax in the EU.
Vision text 03/11/2022
DAC6 Directive and Attorneys' Professional Secrecy - Analysis of the opinion of AG Rantos in case C-694-20 (english)
Vision text 12/9/2022
EU law issue: how can a Member State put ceilings on electricity prices? (english)
Vision text 18/08/2022
OECD Pillar I - Two-pillar solution to the tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy (english)
Vision text 16/02/2022
OECD Pillar I - Amount A - Draft Model Rules for Nexus and Revenue Sourcing (english)
Vision text 08/12/2020
Preliminary draft law introducing an annual tax on the securities account (dutch)
Vision text 10/11/2020
Remarks VAT preliminary design (dutch)
Vision text 19/08/2020
Input UN comment Article 7 on digital activities (english)
Vision text 09/08/2020
Input UN comment Article 5 on digital activities (english)
Vision text 30/06/2020
Submission USTR Verhaeghe DST (english)
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