On 14 October 2019, the Luxembourg 2020 draft budget law was tabled by the Finance Minister to the Parliament (“Draft Budget Law”).
On 19 December 2019, the Luxembourg Parliament adopted the law transposing the Council Directive (EU) 2017/952 of 29 May 2017 (the so-called “ATAD 2”) into Luxembourg law (“ATAD 2 Law”) (first constitutional vote)
Today, the budget law for 2020 and the law implementing into domestic law Council Directive (EU) 2017/952 of 29 May 2017 (“ATAD II”) have been passed by the Luxembourg Parliament.
CJ rules that non-EU pension funds can obtain the refund of dividend withholding tax if they are comparable to domestic pension funds (College Pension Plan of British Columbia
DAC 6, the sixth amendment to the Directive on Administrative Cooperation (“DAC 6”) requiring so-called tax intermediaries to report, on a mandatory basis, certain cross-border arrangements is to be transposed by each Member State into domestic laws by the end of 2019
On 14 October 2019, the finance minister presented a bill on the 2020 budget (the “Bill”). The Bill includes inter alia tax provisions, one of which concerns tax rulings.
On 24 September 2019, the General Court upheld the Commission’s decision that Fiat had received unlawful State aid from Luxembourg, and at the same time annulled the decision which had found the same with respect to Starbucks in the Netherlands. Even though leading to different outcomes, these judgments support the Commission in its scrutiny of advance tax rulings on transfer pricing, explicitly confirming the possibility for the Commission to verify the arm’s length nature of transactions between related parties.
The draft 2020 Luxembourg budget includes a proposal limiting the validity of advanced tax agreements issued before 1 January 2015.
Luxembourg Minister of Finance Pierre Gramegna has presented the Luxembourg government’s budget bill for year 2020 to the Luxembourg Parliament today (the Budget 2020 Bill).
In a judgment of 24 September 2019, the General Court of the European Union (“Court”) dismissed actions brought by Luxembourg and Fiat Finance and Trade (“FFT”) against a European Commission decision
