Aid for consultancy services for SMEs
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The Minister of the Economy and the Minister of Finance can grant financial aid to small and medium-sized enterprises for consultancy services provided by external consultants.
Who is concerned
Eligible businesses
This aid is intended for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) holding a business permit granted by the General Directorate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (Direction générale des Classes moyennes) and which are not active in any excluded activity in accordance with the general terms and conditions applying to aid for SMEs.
This aid is intended to pay for the occasional services provided by external consultants for one-off projects.
The services concerned:
- must not be permanent or recurrent in nature; and
- must not form part of the business's normal business expenditure (in particular regular tax or legal advisory services, advertising).
Eligible costs
Admissible costs are costs for consultancy services provided by external consultants. These services may not be in relation with permanent or periodical activities of the business, nor may they be in relation with expenses concerning the normal operation of the business.
Prerequisites
In order to receive aid for consultancy services for SMEs, businesses must observe and fulfil the general terms and conditions applicable to all aid for SMEs.
How to proceed
Filing an application
Applications for aid for consultancy services for SMEs must be submitted:
- via an online assistant available on MyGuichet.lu; or
- using an application file template.
Online application using an electronic assistant
The person submitting the application (the applicants themselves or their representatives) must have a LuxTrust product or an electronic identity card.
The application must be submitted before the commencement of the work.
How to create a business eSpace on MyGuichet.lu
There are 2 possible scenarios:
- You are a new user of MyGuichet.lu. You must:
- first register on MyGuichet.lu; and
- then create a business eSpace.
- You already have a private eSpace on MyGuichet.lu. You can directly create a business eSpace without having to register again.
Further information as well as tutorials in relation with the business eSpace are available in our dedicated help page.
Application using the application file template
The complete application file, dated and signed by a person authorised to sign on behalf of the business, and the accompanying documents must be submitted before work starts on the project in electronic format to the General Directorate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (Department for Support to SMEs).
Supporting documents
Applications for aid must include the following information and documents:
- the name and size of the business (any document deemed necessary may be requested for the determination of the size of the business);
- a description of the project, including its start and end dates;
- the location of the project;
- a list of costs of the project;
- a financing plan;
- the form and the amount of financial aid required for the project;
- any other relevant information which would help the ministers in charge to understand the qualities or specificities of the project or programme and its incentive effect (invoices, proofs of payment, bank statements, the file/report or results of the consultancy services provided by the third-party service provider).
The business must grant the Minister of the Economy and the Minister of Finance the authority to verify with the Luxembourg Inland Revenue, the Registration Duties, Estates and VAT Authority and the Joint Social Security Centre that the business has not evaded its tax and social obligations. If not, the business must attach the certificates issued by these administrations providing proof that all tax and social charges have been duly paid.
Maximum amount of financial aid
The amount of aid cannot be higher than 50 % of the eligible cost.
For each investment project, the amount of aid will not be less than EUR 1,000.
Payment of the aid
The capital subsidy and repayable advance are paid out after the completion of the project, programme or activity.
However, one or more advance payments may be made as the investments are made.
The application for payment of the aid is to be submitted using the online assistant available on MyGuichet.lu. This can be done in 2 different ways:
- in a detailed manner, where each individual cost is reported: to be used if there are 10 invoices or less to be declared; or
- in a summarised manner, where the total per type of cost is reported: to be used if there are more than 10 invoices to be declared.
Details of the documents to be provided depending on the cost statement templates are available under "Pièces à joindre à la démarche en ligne MyGuichet.lu de demande de paiement".
The person submitting the payment application (the applicants themselves or their representatives) must have a LuxTrust product or an electronic identity card (eID).
The payment application must be submitted before the deadline indicated in the decision/agreement.
Online services and forms
Who to contact
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Ministry of the Economy General Directorate for SME, Craft and Retail (Department for Support to SMEs)
- Address:
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L-2914
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
B. P. 535 L-2937 Luxembourg
- Phone:
- (+352) 247 74 704
- Email address:
- info.aide.pme@eco.etat.lu
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Ministry of the Economy General Directorate - Industry, New Technologies and Research (Financing and State Aid)
- Address:
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19-21, boulevard Royal
L-2449
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
L-2914 Luxembourg
- Email address:
- FAE@eco.etat.lu
- Website:
- https://meco.gouvernement.lu/fr.html
Related procedures and links
Procedures
Links
Further information
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User guide to the SME definition
on the website of the Publications Office of the European Union
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Summary table of the different types of aid
Pdf • 567 Kb
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Financial aid application procedure for businesses: List of attachments to be provided depending of the type of aid requested
Pdf • 465 Kb
Download
Excel • 305 Kb
Legal references
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014
declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty Text with EEA relevance
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Loi modifiée du 9 août 2018
relative à un régime d’aides en faveur des petites et moyennes entreprises
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Règlement grand-ducal du 12 octobre 2018
déterminant la nomenclature des dépenses et des entreprises éligibles au régime d’aides prévu par la loi du 9 août 2018 relative à un régime d’aides en faveur des petites et moyennes entreprises
