A new fiscal amnesty regime came into force in Belgium on Monday, writes Tax News’ Ulrika Lomas . The Belgian finance ministry has provided clarification regarding application of the old and new tax regimes, and the admissibility of amnesty declarations. Taxpayers who submitted a declaration before...

Belgium’s Ambassador to Bulgaria, Anick Van Calster (pictured) , and her Dutch counterpart Karel van Kesteren have become the latest foreign diplomats to talk about the ongoing anti-government protests in Bulgaria, describing them as protests about European values, echoing a joint statement by...

Former Marc Dutroux accomplice Michel Lelièvre could see his parole plans scuppered by a beer he drank, De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws report today. Press photographs show that, on Monday, on the first of five ‘day releases’ granted to him by a court in June, Lelièvre had a beer - his first in...

Torino’s Belgian goalkeeper Jean-Francois Gillet has been banned for three years and seven months for suspected match fixing, reports Football Italia . The Belgium international was the most high profile player to face sporting fraud charges relating to two games involving Gillet’s former club,...

Bicycle mechanic Emad Tyar Abush, 34, from Leuven talks about what he earns and how he spends it What do you do for a living? I repair bicycles at Fietspunt in Leuven. We’re based at the station near the town hall. So we get many students, but also tourists, commuters and locals. We rent and sell...

There won’t be a road vignette system in Belgium, De Morgen has learnt from various government sources. The introduction of the kilometre charge tax for trucks, however, is maintained and will come into force on January 1, 2016. The Flemish government was never enthusiastic about the introduction...

A video showing Dutch journalist Judith Spiegel, who works for Belgian channel VRT, and her companion Boudewijn Berendsen has appeared on Facebook. They were kidnapped in Yemen by armed men at the beginning of June. In the video, the journalist appeals to the Netherlands, urging them to intervene...

Police courts in Belgium last year sentenced a record number of people driving without a licence, De Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Belang van Limburg report today. In total, 9,159 offenders were caught either with no licence and a further 1,162 with a licence which wasn’t valid, according to the...

Former prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene was interviewed in the studio by VTM News on Sunday wearing a particularly casual outfit consisting of a short-sleeved shirt, shorts and sandals. The reason for this is simple: he was at a barbecue when a reporter called him to remind him of the interview...

Belgacom was recently found guilty on three occasions of misleading advertising and unlawful comparative advertising against its competitor VOO, the latter has said in a statement. According to VOO, which sued Belgacom, the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal of Brussels last June found...