Actualités et articles

19/05/23

Publication of Luxembourg law on whistleblowing

The law of 16 May 2023 (the “Law”) implements Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of pe…

17/05/23

ECOFIN Council reaches an agreement on DAC8

At yesterday’s ECOFIN meeting, the EU Council agreed on a general approach regarding foreseen amendments to the directive on administrative cooperatio…

17/05/23

The long march towards tax transparency: dac8 targets cryptos

On 16 May 2023, the EU Finance Ministers reached a political agreement (“general approach”) on new tax transparency rules for all service providers fa…

16/05/23

Protection des lanceurs d’alerte : ce que vous devez savoir de la nouvelle loi

L’objectif est de créer un cadre législatif harmonisé afin de protéger les lanceurs d’alerte contre toutes les formes de représailles qui pourraient l…

12/05/23

Immigration : nouvelles restrictions concernant les titres deséjour pour raisons privées

La loi du 21 avril 2023_ portant modification de la loi modifiée du 29 août 2008 sur la libre circulation des personnes et l’immigration a été publiée…

11/05/23

New bill of law for the modernisation and retailisation of Luxembourg fund solutions

10/05/23

The recent governmental proposals on amendments to the procedure governing direct taxation litigation in the G…

On 28 March 2023, the Finance Ministry sent Bill No. 8186, the provisions of which are aimed at amending and modernizing certain procedural aspects of…

08/05/23

Tax bits and pieces before the general election...

Although the Government still claims to be working at a widely called-for tax reform, and despite acknowledging the shortfalls of the antiquated Abgab…

05/05/23

EU Directive on non-performing loans: Luxembourg Bill introduces a framework for their transfer and a new PFS …

On 24 March 2023, a bill of law aiming, inter alia, at transposing Directive (EU) 2021/2167 on credit servicers and credit purchasers ("NPL Directive"…

04/05/23

Protection des lanceurs d’alerte : premier vote constitutionnel

Le projet de loi n°7945_ sur la protection des personnes qui signalent des violations du droit de l'Union (le « PDL ») a été voté le 2 Mai 2023 (premi…

02/05/23

DAC8: EU extends administrative cooperation to crypto-assets

On 8 December 2022, the EU Commission adopted a new proposal for a Directive, the so-called “DAC8” (hereafter referred to as the “DAC8 Proposal” or “t…

28/04/23

Luxembourg Administrative Tribunal rules on the tax treatment of share class redemptions

The share capital of Luxembourg companies may be divided into different classes of shares that provide the shareholder(s) with different rights. Here,…

26/04/23

New AML package is now close to the final stage

On 19 April 2023, the EU Parliament announced the approval of its negotiating mandate for three of the four proposed pillars of the much-anticipated n…

25/04/23

CSSF supervisory priorities in sustainable finance

On 6 April 2023, the Commission de surveillance du secteur financier (the « CSSF ») published its supervisory priorities in sustainable finance, which…

24/04/23

Question on the constitutionality of the minimum net wealth tax regime

In a judgement dated 18 April 2023 (docket n° 45910), the Lower Administrative Court (Tribunal administratif) referred to the Constitutional Court the…

20/04/23

Luxembourg government proposes amendments to tax procedures

On 28 March 2023, the government submitted to Parliament Bill of law no. 8186 amending the General Tax Law and introducing new provisions about transf…

19/04/23

Sustainable Finance update (asset management)

On 5 April 2023, the European Commission published its response to eight questions on the interpretation of SFDR that were submitted by the ESAs to th…

18/04/23

EU Commission answers ESA questions on SFDR interpretation

In September 2022, the ESAS jointly submitted questions to the eu commission about the interpretation of the SFDR. the answers to those questions have…

13/04/23

Proposal for a Directive to prevent misuse of shell entities (ATAD 3) and the amendments proposed by the Europ…

In mid-January 2023, the European Parliament approved the European Commission’s draft directive to prevent misuse of shell entities for tax purposes (…

12/04/23

Blockchain Law III: strengthening the rules on collateral over digital assets

The Luxembourg parliament voted bill of law no. 8055 on certain aspects of the dlt pilot regime into law on 14 march 2023. it introduces specific rule…