Veerle Lerut

Veerle Lerut

Counsel
Baker McKenzie BV/SRL

Biography

Veerle Lerut is a counsel in the Tax Practice Group in the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2023.

Before joining Baker McKenzie, Veerle worked as a lawyer, as the in-house legal tax advisor of a highly reputed Flemish University, in the advisory tax department of a Big Four firm and as an academical researcher.

Practice Focus

Veerle advises on the national and international individual income tax and social security aspects of compensation & benefits granted to resident and non-resident individuals, including the structuring of cross-border employment situations and transfers of employees and directors.

Veerle has a specific focus on equity based compensation and cross-border government services.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Member of IFA Belgium
  • Member editorial board doctrine at Tijdschrift voor Fiscaal Recht

Corporate Responsibility

  • Veerle is an active member of the Legal Diversity and Inclusion Alliance ('LDIA') 
  • Veerle is an active member of the The Good Lobby's Brussels Pro Bono Roundtable

Admissions

  • Brussels~Belgium (2012)

Education

  • KU Leuven (Master in Tax) (2008)
  • KU Leuven (Master in Law) (2007)
  • Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (Master in Law, Erasmus) (2006)
  • KU Leuven (Bachelor in Law) (2005)

Languages

  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Author, "Nominatie voor de trofee van de lobbyfiscaliteit 2024", TFR, 2024/6, nr. 658
  • Author, "Meer werkenden door (een beetje) meer netto-loon?", TFR, 2023/9, nr. 641
  • Co-Author, "Herkwalificatie Europese Verordening 883/2004 aangeduide bevoegde staat: België past zijn standpunt aan", Over de Grens, november 2019. 
  • Original Author, Chapter on "Inkomstenbelasting", Vademecum Fiscale Falconis, Wolters Kluwer, on an annual basis since 2015
  • Co-Author, Tiberghien Manual, Editions 2009, 2010 and 2011
  • Co-Author, "Feitelijk Samenwonen : Fiscale en Sociale Implicaties", Netto, September 2009
  • Co-Author, "Fiscale aftrekbaarheid maaltijdcheques", T.F.R., 2008, 362-363, p. 503