Julie Permeke

Julie has 10 years of extensive experience in tax controversy and tax advisory work.

She has significant experience in complex procedural and dispute resolution tax matters, and represents clients at every stage of a tax dispute (e.g., assisting during tax audits, negotiating settlements, filing tax complaints and representing before the tax courts). She assists clients facing complex national or multijurisdictional tax audits and helps clients to deal with (or preparing for) tax dawn raids (including e-discovery matters).

Julie also has extensive experience in national and international tax planning. She developed particular expertise in the field of wealth management, assisting financial intermediaries and high-net-worth individuals on personal tax planning and management of estates. In this context, she has also assisted many high-net-worth individuals with migrations from and to Belgium.

• Defending a US multinational before the tax court on the legality of certain information copied by the Belgian tax authorities during a tax dawn raid and the recovery thereof.
• Defending a US multinational before the court of appeal and the constitutional court on the possibility of a liquidator levying a new tax assessment (after the initial tax assessment levied by the liquidated company had been annulled) and on the tax deduction of interest payments in the context of a leveraged equity distribution.
• Defending multiple multinationals with respect to transfer pricing audits and tax audits focused on passive income streams (dividend, interest and royalty payments) in the context of beneficial ownership and alleged tax abuse.
• Assisted several US multinationals in dawn raids carried out by the Special Tax Investigation Office.
• Representing multiple clients in tax audits and litigation with respect to R&D incentives.

• International Fiscal Association (IFA), Belgian branch - Director
• Free University of Brussels (VUB) - Voluntary researcher in the tax department
• Belgian Association for Tax Lawyers - Member
• Ladies in Law Luxembourg Association - Member