Companies’ shareholders often, both for economic and tax reasons, look for a certain discretion in their investments, which the bearer bond’s disappearance from Belgian legislation makes quite difficult. These shareholders may find other solutions, Belgian or foreign, which will assure this discretion and present tax advantages.

For shareholders, it may be important to keep a relative anonymity. Most of the time it is for tax reasons, but these shareholders may also be guided by commercial or financial motives.

The bearer bonds will soon disappear from the Belgian law, but solutions, interesting on the tax level, exist for shareholders wanting to keep discretion in their investments.

Indeed, shareholders may opt for either the concluding of particular kind of Belgian agreements, or the constitution of foreign societies, for example societies of law from Luxemburg. Afschrift Law Firm’s Luxemburg office is at the disposal of theses shareholders, to analyse their concerns at the closest and propose them advantageous fiscal solutions.