The U.S. IRS has published the bilateral competent authority arrangement signed with Belgium on the exchange of Country-by-Country (CbC) reports. The agreement was signed 20 July 2017 and is effective from that date.
The arrangement provides that pursuant to the provisions of Article 25 (Exchange of Information and Administrative Assistance) of the 2006 income tax treaty between the two countries, each competent authority will automatically exchange CbC reports received from each reporting …