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On 28 October 2026, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted Draft Law No. 8676: from 1 January 2028, tax classes 1, 1a and 2 are replaced by a single tax class “U”, with a 25-year transi…
On 16 July 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) delivered its decision in Case C-158/25 on the relationship between national mechanisms for the joint and s…
With the Council and Parliament positions settled and trilogues expected to open on 22 October 2026, SFDR 2.0 is taking shape: three product categories, a binding 70% threshold, ma…
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Two EU delegated regulations published on 21 September 2026 finalise the re…
The General Court has upheld the European Commission's prohibition of Booki…
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VAT on abort costs in case of an unsuccessful takeover bid is deductible, provided the buyer intended to supply management services for consideration …
Dans un contexte d’évolution constante en matière entreprenariale et face à l’émergence de nouvelles activités sur le marché, la modification de la lé…
On 19 September 2018, the EU Commission announced its decision in the McDonald's State Aid investigations. According to a press release1, th…
On 1 August 2018, the German Ministry of Finance published the amended draft bill of the Annual Tax Act 2018 which will be subject to further discussi…
On 7 June 2017 Luxembourg and more than 70 other jurisdictions signed the multilateral instrument (“MLI”) to integrate base erosion and profit shiftin…
On 11 June 2018, the Luxembourg VAT Authorities published Circular n° 765-1 providing additional guidelines on the VAT deduction right of partial VAT …
On June 18th 2018, the Luxembourg government published a draft law implementing the first Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (hereafter “ATAD”) into Luxembo…
Following decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union1 and of the French Conseil d’Etat2 dealing with virtual currencies (e…
On 7 May 2018, the Luxembourg tax authorities released a circular introducing for Luxembourg corporate taxpayers some new reporting requirem…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Luxembourg Tax Authorities (“LTA”) inserted in Form 500 “Corporate income tax, municipal business and net worth tax return for resident corporatio…
Council Directive (EU) 2016/1164, the “Anti Tax Avoidance Directive” or «ATAD 1 » published on 12 July 2016, implements the OECD’s recommendation…
Following the 2016 referendum vote and the formal withdrawal notification, the UK should in principle not be subject to European legislation as from 3…
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…
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…
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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