Incentives

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PwC Belgium

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On the foot of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European energy landscape is facing unprecedented challenges. The response, on the part of the European Union and its member states, is to accelerate the energy transition. Although decarbonisation of our energy systems was always on the agenda in recent years, the current crisis accentuates the need for a low-carbon and energy-independent Europe, while also underlining the necessity of supporting businesses and people through hard times. Strat...

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to PWC TaxBite podcast series.
0:09.0	My name is Peter Grete and I'm extremely happy and I can welcome Bart Wayne to my recording studio.
0:17.0	Well, today we're going to talk about, yeah, energy crisis impact all our business,
0:23.1	but what can be done there and what is available for you as a business in terms of grants
0:28.4	and incentives. And to talk about this topic, I invited Barthainz, who is a senior manager
0:34.4	in team, he has a large experience in support and subsidies for innovative
0:40.5	processes, research and development on all regions, regional aid, but also on the European
0:46.4	side. And with Bart, we also have Tom Walain. Tom is a senior expert in our team working
0:53.1	more on the tax side of these incentives.
0:55.6	And as we all know, there is a lot of things happening in the tax scene as well on this.
1:00.0	Yeah, I don't think I need to give a lot of context to why we have this broadcast.
1:04.7	We come out of a period, luckily which is behind us now on the pandemic situation.
1:11.6	A lot of disruptions there, a lot of need for support, for businesses, lots of impact on the people, business continuity.
1:19.6	And well, we come out of this crisis, we just enter into a new year.
1:25.6	And there is then the energy crisis, as from 2021.
1:30.2	Tremendous impact on all of this.
1:32.3	Businesses struggling with, yeah, changing supply change,
1:36.8	changing their dependency on certain energy sources like gas, et cetera,
1:42.2	fossil fuels.
1:43.9	A transition is needed to a more green, more sustainable economy based on more sustainable
1:49.5	sources of energy.
1:51.0	And against this tremendous development, and the question is, of course, yeah, for businesses,
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