Setting Up a Business in Belgium

An in-depth guide for foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the Belgian market — a small market split across three regions and four official languages, where federal, regional, and community-level rules genuinely overlap and interact.
This guide covers legal structures, business taxation, company formation, the cost of labor, and immigration routes for executives, investors, and entrepreneurs. Includes a dedicated regional directory covering Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels, plus a specific reminder on the German-speaking Community’s own administrative specificities, an operational checklist, and useful contacts at both federal and regional level.
Available in English, French, German, and Dutch.