Brussels, 08/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 8 July, the European Commission announced that it has opened in-depth investigations into tax exemptions granted under Belgian and French law to ports' economic activities.
In Belgium, a number of sea and inland waterway ports (notably the ports of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Charleroi, Ghent, Liège, Namur and Ostend, as well as ports along the canals in Hainaut Province and Flanders) are exempt from the general corporate income tax regime....