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08/11/24
EU Commission adopted a DAC9 proposal to ease filing obligat…

On 28 October 2024, the EU Commission put forward a directive proposal (the…

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05/11/24
Council of the EU finally agrees on VAT in the digital age p…

On 5 November 2024, the Council adopted new measures aimed at modernising t…

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Aide à l'innovation : à quoi les start-up peuvent-elles prétendre ?

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…

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EU Commission finds no illegal State Aid in the McDonald's Case

On 19 September 2018, the EU Commission announced its decision in the McDonald's State Aid investigations. According to a press release1, th…

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Upcoming German tax law changes relevant to real estate investments

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…

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Luxembourg has started the MLI ratification procedure

On 7 June 2017 Luxembourg and more than 70 other jurisdictions signed the multilateral instrument (“MLI”) to integrate base erosion and profit shiftin…

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VAT deduction right of holding companies - New Guidelines published by the VAT authorities

On 11 June 2018, the Luxembourg VAT Authorities published Circular n° 765-1 providing additional guidelines on the VAT deduction right of partial VAT …

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Draft Law for the ATAD 1 Implementation

On June 18th 2018, the Luxembourg government published a draft law implementing the first Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (hereafter “ATAD”) into Luxembo…

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Tax Treatment of virtual currencies

Following decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union1 and of the French Conseil d’Etat2 dealing with virtual currencies (e…

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New reporting requirements on transactions with related parties

On 7 May 2018, the Luxembourg tax authorities released a circular introducing for Luxembourg corporate taxpayers some new reporting requirem…

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VAT group legislation voted

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…

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CJEU in Truvada case: no SPC for A+B (unless "the claims relate necessarily and specifically to that combinati…

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…

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The OECD releases the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) public discussion draft on BEPS actions 8-10: Fi…

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…

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Unrestricted VAT deduction for active holding companies

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…

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Luxembourg Implementation of Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive

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…

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Transfer pricing: new requirements in 2017 tax returns

The Luxembourg Tax Authorities (“LTA”) inserted in Form 500 “Corporate income tax, municipal business and net worth tax return for resident corporatio…

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The Luxembourg ATAD bill of law has been published

Council Directive (EU) 2016/1164, the “Anti Tax Avoidance Directive” or «ATAD 1 » published on 12 July 2016, implements the OECD’s recommendation…

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‘Brexit’ – What does it mean for indirect taxes?

Following the 2016 referendum vote and the formal withdrawal notification, the UK should in principle not be subject to European legislation as from 3…

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Fidelity Funds vs the Danish Ministry – CJEU rules in favour of taxpayers

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…

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Luxembourg implements the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD)

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…

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Competition law and algorithms: the Luxembourg Competition Council exempts a booking platform in the taxi sect…

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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EU Court of Justice rules on the limits of anti-abuse rules

On 20 December 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided on two cases involving German anti-abuse legislation that denies a (par…

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