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03/12/25
Parliament’s finance committee passes amendments to the carr…

On 17 November 2025, the Luxembourg parliament published amendments to the …

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03/12/25
Are your crypto assets taxable in Luxembourg?

Crypto currencies and other crypto assets are increasingly being adopted by…

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New reporting requirements on transactions with related parties

On 7 May 2018, the Luxembourg tax authorities released a circular introducing for Luxembourg corporate taxpayers some new reporting requirem…

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VAT group legislation voted

The bill of law n°7278 implementing the VAT group into Luxembourg law, as outlined in our previous Newsflash on 13 April 2018, was voted on 26 Ju…

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CJEU in Truvada case: no SPC for A+B (unless "the claims relate necessarily and specifically to that combinati…

Today (25.07), the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") has rendered a long awaited decision in a dispute revolving around the supplementar…

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The OECD releases the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) public discussion draft on BEPS actions 8-10: Fi…

On 3 July 2018, the OECD launched a consultation on the transfer pricing of financial transactions by publishing the first draft of a new chapter of t…

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Unrestricted VAT deduction for active holding companies

On 5 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) released a welcome decision in the Marle Participations case (C-320/17) concerning…

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Luxembourg Implementation of Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive

On 20 June 2018, the Luxembourg Government filed the bill of law n°7318 (“Draft Law”) implementing the so-called Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (“ATAD 1…

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Transfer pricing: new requirements in 2017 tax returns

The Luxembourg Tax Authorities (“LTA”) inserted in Form 500 “Corporate income tax, municipal business and net worth tax return for resident corporatio…

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The Luxembourg ATAD bill of law has been published

Council Directive (EU) 2016/1164, the “Anti Tax Avoidance Directive” or «ATAD 1 » published on 12 July 2016, implements the OECD’s recommendation…

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‘Brexit’ – What does it mean for indirect taxes?

Following the 2016 referendum vote and the formal withdrawal notification, the UK should in principle not be subject to European legislation as from 3…

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Fidelity Funds vs the Danish Ministry – CJEU rules in favour of taxpayers

Yesterday (21 June 2018), the European Court ruled in favour of a Fidelity investment fund that had suffered Danish withholding tax at a higher rate t…

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Luxembourg implements the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD)

Today (20.06), the draft law implementing the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (“ATAD”) was released. While the main purpose of the draft law is to imp…

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Competition law and algorithms: the Luxembourg Competition Council exempts a booking platform in the taxi sect…

Algorithms is the hot topic in competition law. In June 2017, the OECD published a paper on the risk of collusion in the use of algorithms. This issue…

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EU Court of Justice rules on the limits of anti-abuse rules

On 20 December 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided on two cases involving German anti-abuse legislation that denies a (par…

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Fair taxation of the digital economy: a new tax challenge

On 21 March 2018, the EU Commission issued two directive proposals aiming to ensure that tax laws “fairly” tax digital business activities. The first …

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Additional transparency obligations for Luxembourg taxpayers: defensive measures in relation to the EU list of…

On 7 May, 2018, the Luxembourg tax authorities issued a new circular “Circular LG – A n.64 relating to the defensive measures in relation to the EU li…

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New Luxembourg intellectual property regime in force

Luxembourg new tax regime designed to increase intellectual property (“IP”) developments has entered into force in April 2018 and is effective as of 1…

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Deduction of input VAT on abort costs

On 3 May 2018, Advocate General (“AG”) Kokott delivered her opinion in the Ryanair case (C-249/17) concerning the deduction of input VAT on costs incu…

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New France-Luxembourg Double Tax Treaty

On 20 March 2018, France and Luxembourg signed a new Double Tax Treaty (“DTT”). The aim of the new DTT is to replace the existing treaty that was sign…

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EU Legislative Proposals to Facilitate the Cross-Border Distribution of Investment Funds

On March 12th 2018, in the context of the Capital Markets Union action plan, the European Commission issued legislative proposals to amend the ex…

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New IP Tax Regime

On 22 March 2018, the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies adopted the new intellectual property box regime with effect from 1 January 2018 and which includ…

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