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As elaborated in our BSP Sustainable Finance Insights Series 6, on 8 June 2020, the European Commission published a set of draft delegated acts concerning the integration of sustainability factors under various legislative acts, including the Directive 2014/65/EU on markets in financial instruments

Following two preliminary references from Austrian courts, the European Court of Justice (“ ECJ”) ruled in a judgment handed down on 17 June 2021 that certain tax services and the granting of a license for risk-management software may fall within the VAT exemption for the management of special

Introduction On 5 June 2021, the G7 had a summit in London during which the Finance Ministers agreed on the implementation of a global corporate minimum tax of 15% (the “ global minimum tax rate”) as detailed in a Communiqué released shortly thereafter (the “ G7 Communiqué”). Although the

On 4 June 2021, the Director of the Luxembourg tax authorities issued circular LIR No.105/2 regarding the tax treatment of certain expenses incurred by individuals (the “ Circular”). GENERAL TAX TREATMENT OF EXPENSES BORNE BY INDIVIDUALS Before entering into more details as described below, the

Le 8 juin 2021, les députés ont voté à l'unanimité en faveur du projet de loi n° 7307 (ci-après le « projet de loi ») dont la grande majorité des dispositions entrera en vigueur le 16 septembre 2021 [1]. Le projet de loi a fait l’objet d’une dispense de second vote en date du 15 juin 2021. La loi en

The Working Group on Tax Conventions and Related Questions (the “ Working Group”) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (the “ OECD”), the subsidiary body of the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs in charge of the Model Tax Convention, has recently undertaken work to amend the

CONTEXT On 1 June 2021, public country by country reporting (“ CbCR”) has been proposed as an amendment to the Accounting Directive 2013/34/EU (the “Accounting Directive”) through the introduction of a proposed directive on the disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and

As previously detailed, inter alia, in our newsflash dated 19 March 2020 (as updated), the Luxembourg Government has once again found an agreement on the “exceptional measures” put in place with the Belgian, French and German Governments regarding the taxation of cross-border commuters normally

On 28 May 2021, ESMA published an updated version of the Questions & Answers (hereinafter the “ Q&A”) on the implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of 8 June 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds

On 29 March 2021 and on 28 May 2021, ESMA updated its Questions and Answers (" Q&As") concerning investor protection and intermediaries topics under Directive 2014/65/EU of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments (“ MiFID II”) and Regulation (EU) 600/2014 of 15 May 2014 on markets in

The European Commission has taken the opportunity in the post-pandemic context to publish a communication on 18 May 2021 in which it sets out its future projects in the field of taxation in the European Union. The communication contains both short and long-term measures that take into account not

The long anticipated draft law 7825 (the “ Draft Law”) has been submitted to the Luxembourg Parliament ( Chambre des Députés) by the Luxembourg Minister of Finance on 21 May 2021. If adopted in its current form, the Draft Law will result in substantive amendments to the law of 22 March 2004 on