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More than 2,500 Belgian taxpayers reported offshore tax haven

So far, more than 2,500 Belgians have reported an offshore company in their tax return for fiscal year 2015, according to the FPS Finance. The so-called 'low-tax legal arrangement' is a popular way for companies to avoid Belgium's high tax rates. Since 2013, however, Belgians are obliged to report...

Brussels mayor questions police chief about arrest of leftist protesters

Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur ( pictured ) will interrogate the city's police chief about the 99 administrative arrests made in front of the Bourse on Saturday, because the mayor suspects that the agents acted too strictly, write De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad . Hundreds of leftist protesters...

Sagan wins accident-filled Tour of Flanders

Slovakia’s Peter Sagan won an accident-strewn 100th edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen, or Tour of Flanders, road cycle race yesterday, with a brave solo victory. Sagan, 26, the current UCI Road World Champion, left Sep Vanmarcke behind on the final ascent of the famous Paterberg climb before...

First flight departs from Brussels Airport

The first passenger flight to operate from Brussels Airport since the deadly terror attacks there on 22 March departed on Sunday afternoon, the first of six return flights scheduled on Sunday from the airport. Another 20 flights are scheduled on Monday, writes VTM Nieuws. The Brussels Airlines...

Delta Airlines suspends flights between Atlanta and Brussels

The US carrier Delta Airlines has announced it will no longer operate its Atlanta-Brussels route, one of its two connections to the Belgian capital. In the wake of the March terror attacks in Brussels, the airline has scrapped all flights between Brussels Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta...

Number of chocolatiers in Belgium doubled in five years

The number of chocolatiers active in Belgium has doubled in five years, reports the National Union for the Self-Employed (NSI) based on data from the FPS Economy. In 2009, there were 259 chocolatiers working in the country, compared to 543 this year, writes Het Laatste Nieuws. According to NSI,...

Tour of Flanders: Belgium's biggest sporting event gears up for centenary edition

Tiesj Benoot, one of Belgium’s brightest cycling hopes, grew up on the Tour of Flanders, watching from the sidelines for a full 15 years before he got his first bite at it last year. “It was a dream come true to finally do it, after all those years as a spectator,” he says. “It gave me goosebumps:...

Smart cookies: Maison Dandoy reclaims its place in the biscuit market

There is something both reassuringly familiar and strangely quirky about Maison Dandoy , the 186-year-old bakery that is coolly reinventing itself. Their boutiques in Brussels, Waterloo and Tokyo are arranged with the slick precision of Apple stores. Yet the warm, exquisite flavours of their...

FBI to help Belgium with terror investigation, says White House

Following last week's terror attacks in Brussels, the United States has sent FBI teams to assist the Belgian authorities in the investigation into the attacks on 22 March, according to an announcement made today from the White House. Belgian and American officials are discussing the collaboration...

Saint-Gilles apartment served as 'factory' for false documents

Italian police on Saturday arrested an Algerian man who is accused of providing fake identity documents to terrorists, including Salah Abdeslam and Najim Laachraoui. The documents appear to have been manufactured in an apartment in the Brussels commune of Saint-Gilles, where forging equipment and...

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