Hello everyone, welcome to PWC TaxBite podcast series. Today I have a full room here in my virtual

recording studio because I want to talk about the upcoming government elections in Belgium and the tax reform that could come from that.

Let me first do a tour de table of my recording studio here.

First of all, I have Tim Van Zanzh with me.

Tim is director in our indirect tax team, so he's really the expert on the changes for

indirect taxes.

Bart van Busser, partner in our team, working on reward, everything that relates to

benefits for employees and the

taxation thereof Peter Hillemone many know Peter but it's our experts a true

expert in pensions and everything that relates to that and yescal the Bells who

is from PWC legal and who is joining us here today to talk about the legal

side of a few things yeah this being said us here today to talk about the legal side of a few things.

Yeah, this being said, so we're going to talk about the new government, the potential reform

that will come with it. But the last that I read about is that the government discussions are

lengthy, not that easy and not moving forward very fast at this moment in time.

So, Bart, maybe, is it really that relevant to already talk about this today?

Thank you, Peter, for having us.

An excellent question.

Why would it be relevant to talk to this today?

It's already, because a lot of work has been done over the summer months and even before.

And therefore, we believe that the work that has been done might be a starting point for

further negotiations.

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