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Circular on dividend withholding tax refund following Tate & Lyle Investments case – published

02 December 2013

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Belgium; European Union

Recently, the Belgian administration published Circular Ci. RH.233.609.958 (No. AA Fisc No. 26/2013) on the granting of a refund of dividend withholding tax following the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Tate & Lyle Investments (Case C-384/11). In the case, the ECJ, inter alia, decided that the free movement of capital must be interpreted as precluding legislation, whereby dividends distributed by a resident company to resident and non-resident receiving companies which hold less than 10% in the capital of the distributing company but with an purchase value of at least EUR 1.2 million (from 2010, EUR 2.5...