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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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Adoption of the ELTIF Regulation

The proposed regulation (the "Regulation") on European Long-Term Investment Funds ("ELTIF") has been adopted by the European Parliament (the "EP") on …

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The European Long-Term Investment Fund (Eltif) Regulation

On 20 April 2015, the European Council formally approved a new regulation aiming at creating a new investment vehicle channelling European investment …

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Final text of the fourth AML Directive

Two years after the European Commission's proposal, the European Parliament approved the final text of the fourth AML Directive ("the Fourth AMLD") on…

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Market Abuse Regulation - ESMA Report

On February 2nd 2015 the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") published its final report on possible delegated acts concerning the Marke…

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Fourth AML Directive

The European Parliament vote on the final text of the fourth AML Directive ("the Fourth AMLD") is imminent.

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DTT with Germany - Interpretation of the term Investmentvermögen

The Luxembourg tax authorities released Circular L.G. - Conv. D.I. n°58 on February 9th 2015 (hereafter the "Circular") which aims at providing clarif…

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Updated ESMA Q&A on Key Investor Information Document (KIID) for UCITSOn 26 March 2015, ESMA published an …

On 26 March 2015, ESMA published an updated version of its Q&A on the KIID.

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Super reduced VAT rate not applicable to e-books

By judgement dated March 5th 2015 (the "Judgement"), the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") ruled that the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg h…

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It’s FATCA time in Luxembourg

A year after the signing of the intergovernmental agreement regarding FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) between Luxembourg and the United Sta…

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Taxation of Belgian commuters

The double tax treaty signed on September 17th 1970 between the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of Belgium (the "DTT") provides in its artic…

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AIFMD | ESMA updated Q&A

On March 26th 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") published an updated questions and answers ("Updated Q&A") on the appli…

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CMU - Prospectus Directive : the essentials

On 18 February 2015 the European Commission published a Green Paper on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) seeking consultation on numerous capital marke…

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EuSEF and EuVECA - Update

On February 3rd 2015 the European Securities Markets Authority ("ESMA") issued its final report (the "Final Report") on ESMA's technical advice to the…

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EMIR - MoUs in relation to non-EU CCPs

Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 4th 2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade reposi…

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EU – New rules on food labelling

EU - New rules on food labelling: 2015 is an important year for the Food Industry since on 12 December 2014 most of the provisions of the EU Regulatio…

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Making strides towards a Capital Markets Union

On February 18th 2015, the European Commission set the wheels in motion for a fully functioning Capital Markets Union, through the launch of its green…

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EU – New rules on VAT

On 1 January 2015 new VAT rules took effect for telecommunications, broadcasting and electronic services, which will always be taxed in the country wh…

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L’arrêt Ryanair de la CJUE : une clarification utile au sujet de l’usage des bases de données non protégées

Début 2015, la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne a rendu un arrêt (CJUE, aff. C-30/14) qui devrait rassurer les propriétaires de bases de données …

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Temporary budget balancing tax

The Luxembourg Parliament passed several laws in the framework of the 2015 Budget on December 19th 2015. The Budget Laws include a temporary budget ba…

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New procedures applicable to exchange of information on request

On November 25th 2014, the Luxembourg parliament approved the draft law amending the procedure applicable to the exchange of information on request (t…

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