Sylvie is tax partner of Claeys & Engels, the Belgian member firm of Ius Laboris and heads the tax and the Compensation & Benefits practices within the firm. Within Ius Laboris, she also heads the Tax Expert Group. Sylvie advises national and international clients on their remuneration policies (total reward, flexible remuneration plans, incentive plans, benefits in kind, social benefits, costs proper to the employer, pensions, exemption from payment of withholding tax, etc.). Sylvie also has extensive experience in the field of international mobility (salary-splits, secondments, transfers, short-term business trips, multi-state employment, specific tax regimes). She assists clients in the management of their expatriation policies and ensures with them that the fiscal and parafiscal consequences of their mobility programmes are in compliance with the law (individual tax returns, payrolls, …).

Sylvie holds a master’s degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences and an executive master in tax management. She is a certified Tax Advisor with the Belgian Institute for Tax Advisors and Accountants. As a regular speaker at internal and external seminars, she also regularly publishes articles on tax matters in various newspapers. She is the author of « La mobilité internationale – principes et aspects pratiques » (Editions Larcier) and is a co-author of "L'impôt des Personnes Physiques" (Précis de la Faculté de Droit de l'Université catholique de Louvain). She also teaches taxation at the École Supérieure des Sciences Fiscales (ICHEC Brussels Management School) and at the Solvay Business School.