Loyens & Loeff

Integrated legal and tax advice

Loyens & Loeff offers top-level legal and tax advice for international businesses, financial institutions and government bodies.

Thanks to our closely collaborating legal and tax practices, we have built up a unique and very solid position in the market. Different specialists tackle issues from different sides, offering you the best advice in the most efficient way. With about 1600 employees worldwide, consisting of about 400 tax experts and about the same number of legal experts, we are capable of effectively structuring and supervising both domestic and international matters.

We provide services from our six Benelux offices and from our eleven branches based in the world's major financial centres.

News

Dutch government abandons plans for mandatory group interest box and proposed limitations on interest deduction; proposal to limit interest deduction for acquisition holdings only and to restrict deductibility of PE losses

On 5 December 2009, the Dutch government sent a letter (as a follow-up to the Consultation Paper released on 15 June 2009) to Parliament in which it announced that it has abandoned plans to introduce a long anticipated mandatory group interest box and certain measures to restrict the deductibility of interest in the near future. The feasibility of these measures may be taken into account in a broader study of the Dutch tax system which is currently subject of a specific Study Committee. Instead,...

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Arco Bobeldijk awarded a doctorate

Arco Bobeldijk has been awarded a doctorate following his dissertation ‘Afgewaardeerde vorderingen in de vennootschapsbelasting’ (“Written-down claims in corporation tax”). Many people were present at his doctoral ceremony in the Senaatszaal at the University of Utrecht on 20 November. “The issues concerning written-down claims have been around for a long time. Now, due to the wide-spread effects of the financial crisis, they are particularly relevant for us all”, says Bobeldijk. Having examined...

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