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Luxembourg regulator refines captive and reinsurance licensing processes

Luxembourg continues to consolidate its position as one of Europe’s premier hubs for captive insurance and reinsurance. With nearly 200 reinsurance undertakings, the Grand Duchy re…

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ABILWAYS Luxembourg devient SKOLAE Training

ABILWAYS Luxembourg annonce son changement d’identité et devient SKOLAE Training. Cette évolution s’inscrit dans le cadre du rapprochement d’ABILWAYS et de M2I, donnant naissance à…

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Arendt appoints new CIO

Arendt is pleased to announce that Olivier Ramlot has joined the firm as Chief Information Officer (CIO) as of 15 October 2025. With extensive experience, notably as CIO of BIL, Ol…

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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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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Luxembourg and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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Minimum Corporate Income Tax

As from the tax year 2015, the two different regimes for the minimum corporate income tax will apply as follow:

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UCITS IV: UPDATED ESMA Q&A ON ITS GUIDELINES ON ETFS AND OTHER UCITS ISSUES

On 9 January 2015, ESMA published an updated version of its Q&A on its guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues. In summary

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IMMOBILISATION OF BEARER SHARES : CSSF FAQ AND REMINDER

On 30 December 2014, the Luxembourg Commission for the Supervision of the Financial Sector (the "CSSF") published its first FAQ concerning the Law of …

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Immobilisation of Bearer Shares And Units: Deadlines for Compulsory Deposit on 18 February 2015

The Law of 28 July 2014 concerning the compulsory deposit and immobilisation of shares and units in bearer form (the "Law") imposes the compulsory dep…

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Facilitation for Belgium-Luxembourg cross-border workers

The Belgian and Luxembourg governments had a joint meeting on 5 February in Brussels and came to an agreement with respect to cross-border employment …

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The Luxembourg Double Tax Treaties Network

Latest updates: - 30 December 2014. Protocol regarding taxation of pension income with Denmark is in force as of 28 December 2014 and will be applicab…

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Mandatory immobilisation of bearer shares and units

As per our previous article dated 2014 in relation to the law dated July 28th 2014 on the immobilisation of shares and corporate units in bearer form …

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Payment Accounts: Enhanced Consumer Rights Through Adoption Of Directive 2014/92/Eu

On 23 July 2014, Directive 2014/92/EU1 (the "Payment Accounts Directive") has been adopted with the aim to improve consumer rights of EU citizens in t…

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Reform of the Bearer Shares Regime In Luxembourg

Instead of abolishing bearer shares as already done or planed to be done by some neighboring countries, the Luxembourg lawmaker, after leading an in-d…

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2015 Luxembourg tax news

The Luxembourg budget law for 2015 and the law introducing measures for the future ("paquet d'avenir") have been adopted on 19 December 2014.

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2015 TAX CHANGES

The law applies to information requested by another State under a bilateral agreement, relevant European Directives as implemented in Luxembourg or th…

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CRD IV - Higher ratio notification procedure imposed by the CSSF

The CSSF has issued a new Circular 15/601 relating to the ratio increase notification procedure laid down in Article 94(1)(g)(ii) of Directi…

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Taxation of Luxembourg partnerships (SCS or SCSp)

The Luxembourg Tax Authorities (hereafter "LTA") have recently clarified the situation on taxation of income realised by Luxembourg partnerships, thro…

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New Tax Mesures for 2015

On 19 December 2014, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted the 2015 budget and the first part of the future package (paquet d'avenir). The most relevant t…

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Useful clarification of the Luxembourg tax treatment of a SCS/SCSp

On 9 January 2015, the Luxembourg tax authorities published Tax Circular L.I.R. n° 14/4 (the "Circular") on the Luxembourg tax treatment of income rea…

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Luxembourg codifies ruling practice and arm’s length principle

As per 1 January 2015, Luxembourg codified (i) the Luxembourg advance tax ruling and advance pricing agreement (ATR/APA) practice and (ii) the arm's l…

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The Luxembourg Administrative Court rules on the IP Income Tax Regime: a call for a prior assessment of eligib…

In the framework of the Lisbon strategy for growth and employment in the EU, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg added Article 50bis to the Income Tax Act 1…

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Latest developments on automatic exchange of information within the EU

Automatic exchange of information ("AEOI") has been a hot topic on the international scene for more than a decade now. Besides the FATCA turmoil, the …

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Forthcoming private wealth foundation and philanthropic foundation in Luxembourg

Many years after the introduction of the Philanthropic Foundation1, the draft bill n° 6595 dated 22 July 2013 presents the private wealth foundation (…

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European Commission investigates on a potential State aid to Fiat Finance and Trade

On 30 September 2014, the European Commission (the "EC") published the non-confidential version of a decision taken on 11 June 2014 launching a formal…

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