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Doing Business 2017: Belgium Summary

Core Content

The Doing Business 2017 report evaluates the ease of doing business in Belgium by analyzing regulatory environments across 11 key areas in the business life cycle. It provides data and rankings for Belgium, as well as comparator economies, to support policy analysis and reform efforts. The report highlights the distance to frontier (DTF) score, which measures how close an economy is to the best regulatory practices, and the ease of doing business ranking, which compares economies based on these indicators.

Main Topics and Indicators

The report covers the following key areas:

• Starting a Business
• Dealing with Construction Permits
• Getting Electricity
• Registering Property
• Getting Credit
• Protecting Minority Investors
• Paying Taxes
• Trading across Borders
• Enforcing Contracts
• Resolving Insolvency
• Labor Market Regulation

Key Findings

Ease of Doing Business Ranking

• Belgium DB2017 Rank: 42
• Belgium DB2016 Rank: 38 (adjusted for methodological changes)
• Change in Rank: -4 (a slight decline)

Distance to Frontier (DTF) Score

• Belgium DTF 2017: 73
• Belgium DTF 2016: 73.02
• Change in DTF: -0.02 (a minimal decrease)

Starting a Business

• Belgium DTF Score: 94.49
• Belgium Rank: 17
• Belgium DB2017 Procedures (Men): 3
• Belgium DB2017 Time (Men): 4 days
• Belgium DB2017 Cost (Men): 5% of income per capita
• Belgium DB2017 Procedures (Women): 3
• Belgium DB2017 Time (Women): 4 days
• Belgium DB2017 Cost (Women): 5% of income per capita

Dealing with Construction Permits

• Belgium DTF Score: 75.34
• Belgium Rank: 44
• Belgium DB2017 Procedures: 10
• Belgium DB2017 Time: 212 days
• Belgium DB2017 Cost: 1% of warehouse value
• Building Quality Control Index: 12 (out of 15)

Getting Electricity

• Belgium DTF Score: 79.58
• Belgium Rank: 60
• Belgium DB2017 Procedures: 6
• Belgium DB2017 Time: 88 days
• Belgium DB2017 Cost: 102.4% of income per capita
• Reliability of Supply Index: 8 (out of 8)

Registering Property

• Belgium DTF Score: 51.43
• Belgium Rank: 131
• Belgium DB2017 Procedures: 8
• Belgium DB2017 Time: 56 days
• Belgium DB2017 Cost: 12.7% of property value
• Quality of Land Administration Index: 22.5 (out of 30)

Getting Credit

• Belgium DTF Score: 45.00
• Belgium Rank: 101
• Belgium DB2017 Procedures: 5
• Belgium DB2017 Time: 161 hours per year
• Belgium DB2017 Cost: 58.7% of profit
• Strength of Legal Rights Index: 4 (out of 12)
• Depth of Credit Information Index: 5 (out of 8)
• Credit Bureau Coverage: 0% of adults

Protecting Minority Investors

• Belgium DTF Score: 58.33
• Belgium Rank: 63
• Belgium DB2017 Procedures: 7
• Belgium DB2017 Time: 0.9 years
• Belgium DB2017 Cost: 3.5% of estate
• Strength of Minority Investor Protection Index: 5.8 (out of 10)
• Conflict of Interest Regulation Index: 7 (out of 10)
• Shareholder Governance Index: 4.7 (out of 10)

Paying Taxes

• Belgium DTF Score: 77.31
• Belgium Rank: 66
• Belgium DB2017 Payments (per year): 11
• Belgium DB2017 Time (hours per year): 161
• Belgium DB2017 Total Tax Rate (% of profit): 58.7%
• Postfiling Index: 88.3 (out of 100)

Trading across Borders

• Belgium DTF Score: 100.00
• Belgium Rank: 1
• Belgium DB2017 Time to Export (Border Compliance): 0 hours
• Belgium DB2017 Cost to Export (Border Compliance): $0
• Belgium DB2017 Time to Export (Documentary Compliance): 1 hour
• Belgium DB2017 Cost to Export (Documentary Compliance): $0
• Belgium DB2017 Time to Import (Border Compliance): 0 hours
• Belgium DB2017 Cost to Import (Border Compliance): $0
• Belgium DB2017 Time to Import (Documentary Compliance): 1 hour
• Belgium DB2017 Cost to Import (Documentary Compliance): $0

Enforcing Contracts

• Belgium DTF Score: 64.25
• Belgium Rank: 52
• Belgium DB2017 Time: 505 days
• Belgium DB2017 Cost: 18% of claim
• Quality of Judicial Processes Index: 8 (out of 18)

Resolving Insolvency

• Belgium DTF Score: 84.32
• Belgium Rank: 10
• Belgium DB2017 Time: 0.9 years
• Belgium DB2017 Cost: 3.5% of estate
• Recovery Rate (cents on the dollar): 89.9
• Strength of Insolvency Framework Index: 11.5 (out of 16)

Key Methodological Changes in 2017

• Paying Taxes: Expanded to include postfiling processes such as tax refunds, audits, and appeals.
• Gender Component: Added to four indicators (starting a business, registering property, enforcing contracts, and labor market regulation).
• New Pilot Indicator: Introduced for selling to the government.
• Expanded Coverage: First-time data collection for Somalia, increasing the total number of economies to 190.

Comparators

• Belgium is compared with Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.
• The best performers in each category are also noted, such as New Zealand for starting a business and Korea, Rep. for getting electricity.

Conclusion

The report highlights that Belgium maintains a strong regulatory environment in some areas, such as trading across borders, where it ranks first. However, in other areas like registering property and protecting minority investors, it lags behind many comparator economies. The distance to frontier score indicates that Belgium is relatively close to the best practices in most indicators, but there is still room for improvement. The inclusion of a gender dimension in several indicators provides a more comprehensive view of the business environment for both men and women, reflecting the importance of gender equality in regulatory reform.