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    • Starting up & Development
      • 1. Business project
        • Defining a business project
          • Business plan
          • Legal form
          • Conditions of access to a profession
          • Financing a business project
          • Civil liability of the managing director
          • Criminal liability of managing directors
        • Entry and stay
          • Staying and/or working in Luxembourg as an EU citizen
          • Conditions of residence for self-employed third-country workers
          • Conditions of residence for investors from third countries
          • Application for an opinion on an investment project in the context of an application for an investor residence permit - Ministry of Finance component
          • Staying in Luxembourg for more than 3 months as a third-country national and family member of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national
        • Diplomas / Qualifications
          • Recognition of a level of education, a diploma or a professional qualification
            • Recognition of equivalence of diplomas (baccalauréat/Matura type)
            • Recognition of the level of education (elementary and secondary education) without achieving a final diploma
            • Recognition of the level of education, the equivalency of diplomas and equivalency of professional qualifications
          • Approval of foreign higher education diplomas
          • Registration of higher education diplomas in the register of certificates
          • Master Craftsman's certificate
          • Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning (VAE)
            • Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning – Bachelor's degree, Master's degree or advanced technician's certificate
            • Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning (VAE) – CCP, DAP, DT, DES and master craftsman's certificate
            • Applying for accreditation of prior experiential learning – Continuous vocational training certificates – LLLC
        • Assistance for the creation/takeover of a business
          • Commercial activity and provision of services: House of Entrepreneurship – One-Stop Shop
          • Business mentoring
          • Craft activities: 'Contact Entreprise' at the Chamber of Skilled Trades and Crafts
          • Notary
          • Commercial and craft activities in the north of Luxembourg: Guichet Unique PME
          • Research / Development and Innovation (RDI): Luxinnovation
        • Business restructuring
          • Change in legal form
          • Cross-border merger of businesses
          • Mergers and takeovers of companies
          • Divisions
          • Transfer of business assets and liabilities
      • 2. Access to a profession / business permit
        • Business permits / professional integrity
          • Extract from the criminal record of a legal person
          • Extract from the criminal record of a natural person
          • Applying for a business permit
          • Professional integrity
          • EC certificate of experience - professional experience gained abroad
        • Skilled craft activities
          • Secondary craft trade (list B)
          • Main craft trade (list A)
        • Commercial activities
          • Continuous vocational training establishments
          • Carriage of goods or passengers (> 3.5 tonnes)
          • Hotel status
          • Horeca (hotel, restaurant and café)
          • Trader
          • Real estate professions
        • Liberal professions requiring a business permit
          • Chartered accountant
          • Landscape architect / Landscape engineer
          • Patent attorney
          • Surveyor
          • Town and country planner
          • Interior architect
          • Independent engineer (other than a construction engineer)
          • Accountant
          • Architect
          • Consulting engineer in the construction sector
        • Liberal professions subject to other permits
          • Audit professions
          • General practitioners and medical specialists
          • Dental practitioners, specialised dentists
          • Veterinary surgeon
          • Pharmacists
          • Nurses
          • Midwives
          • Other regulated healthcare professions
          • Other healthcare professions
        • Social and educational professions
          • Social and educational professions
        • Activities subject to specific registration and/or authorisation
          • Private security and surveillance activities - special accreditation
          • Transport of goods by road - Community licence
          • Transport of passengers by road - Community licence
          • Application for a taxi operator licence
          • Taxi driver licence
          • Chèque-Service Accueil (CSA) service provider – education and care services
          • Education and care service for children – accreditation
          • Education and care service staff
          • Chèque-Service Accueil service provider (CSA – Childcare Service Voucher) – childminding
          • Childminder – accreditation
          • Childcare Service Voucher service providers – mini-crèches
          • Mini-crèches – Accreditation
          • Staff of the mini-crèche
          • Licence to provide a media service from Luxembourg
          • Technical assessment and inspection tasks - accreditation
          • Private research institutes - accreditation
          • The credit intermediary concept
          • Accreditation to engage in activities to support the employment of workers with a disability and workers awaiting external redeployment
          • Declaring tattoo studios and establishments providing public tanning appliances
        • List of regulated professions
          • Professions related to the European professional card (list 1)
          • Professions without automatic recognition of diplomas (list 2)
          • Professions with automatic recognition of diplomas (list 3)
      • 3. Legal form (company or self-employed)
        • Sole proprietorships (self-employed persons) and partnerships
          • Comparative table - Partnerships / Sole proprietorships (self-employed persons)
          • Sole proprietorship (self-employed persons)
          • Limited partnership (SCS)
          • Special limited partnership (SCSp)
          • Partnership (SENC)
          • Private limited liability company (SARL)
        • Capital companies
          • Comparative table - Capital companies
          • European Company (SE)
          • European companies - Involvement of workers
          • Cooperative company (SCOP)
          • Civil company (Société civile)
          • Public Limited Company (SA)
          • Private limited liability company (SARL)
          • Simplified limited liability company (SARL-S)
          • Partnership limited by shares (SCA)
          • Societal impact company (SIS)
          • Simplified shareholder company (SAS)
        • Business groups and associations
          • Temporary partnership
          • Franchising
          • Economic interest group
          • European economic interest group (EEIG)
        • Foundations
          • Foundations
      • 4. Business creation/registration with the Trade and Companies Register
        • Creation of a sole proprietorship (self-employed person, sole trader)
          • Registering with the Trade and Companies Register as a natural person
          • Availability of the company name
          • Business registration and filings with the RCS
        • Formation of a Luxembourgish company
          • Availability of the company name
          • Constitutional documents and articles of association
          • Blocking the share capital
          • Registration and modification of the articles of association
          • Notary
        • Subsidiary / Branch office
          • Starting up a Luxembourg subsidiary or branch office
      • 5. Registration for VAT and social security
        • Social security
          • Social security registration requirements for self-employed persons
          • Registration of employers
          • Registration for social security of the assisting spouse or partner
        • VAT / Taxes
          • Registration for income tax
          • Registration for VAT
    • Urban planning & Environment
      • Construction / Development
        • Construction, transformation and demolition works
          • Building permit
          • Amendment of a general development plan (PAG)
          • Limited amendment request for a special development plan (PAP)
          • Application for a special development plan (PAP)
          • Geothermal drilling permits
          • Exemption for night work on construction sites
        • Works carried out next to roads
          • Road-building permit - state roads
          • Road-building permit – railroads
          • National Road Works Register
        • Works carried out beside a wooded area, watercourse or protected area
          • Deforestation/clearing permits
          • Water permit
          • 'Nature protection' permit
        • Shopping centres and superstores
          • Setting up a business in an economic activity area
        • Temporary work sites
          • Prior notice for temporary or mobile work sites
      • Classified establishments (commodo/incommodo)
        • Permits linked to classified establishments
          • Operating permit for classified establishments ('commodo/incommodo')
          • Greenhouse gas emission permits for fixed installations
        • Specific requirements
          • Dangerous substances - Prevention of major-accident hazards (Seveso)
          • Risk assessments for certain classified establishments
      • Environmental impact
        • Environmental assessment
          • Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
          • Permits relating to industrial emissions (IED)
      • Energy
        • Energy
          • Obligation to carry out energy audits
          • Application for accreditation to carry out energy audits
          • Accreditation to calculate the energy performance of buildings and issue energy performance certificates for buildings
          • Energy performance certificate for non-residential buildings (Energiepass)
          • Trans-European energy infrastructure projects
          • LENOZ certificate
          • LENOZ sustainability certificate training
        • Remuneration for the production of energy from renewable energy sources
          • Production of electricity from renewable energy sources
      • Waste / Dangerous substances
        • Recycling and recovery of waste
          • Recycling and re-use of packaging waste
          • Waste electrical and electronic equipment - WEEE
        • Waste treatment facilities
          • Operating permit for a waste treatment facility
          • Operating permit for a hazardous, non-hazardous or inert waste landfill
          • Operating permit for a waste incineration or co-incineration plant
        • Collection, transport and trade of waste
          • Registration for the collection and transportation of waste
          • Waste collection and transportation permit
          • Waste trading or brokering permit
          • Notification for the national and international transfer of waste
          • Permit to recover and transport halogenated hydrocarbons (CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs and halons)
        • REACH & CLP
          • The REACH Regulation - a global overview
          • The CLP regulation - a global overview
          • Registering a chemical substance (REACH)
          • Prior request for information from ECHA
          • Authorisation for the use of substances of concern
        • Dangerous substances
          • Decontamination and disposal of used PCBs or equipment containing PCBs
          • Authorisation to acquire, hold or use radioactive sources or X-ray devices
          • Authorisation for the transport of radioactive substances
      • Financial aid - Environment
        • Incentives and financial support
          • Investment aid for the protection of the environment
      • Responsible companies
        • Social responsibility
          • Corporate Social Responsibility
          • Corporate cultural sponsorship
        • Eco-labels
          • The European Ecolabel
          • EcoLabel for tourist establishments
          • EMAS label (Environment Management and Audit Scheme)
          • Quality label SuperDrecksKëscht fir Betriber
    • Financing & Support measures
      • Coronavirus / COVID-19
        • Aid application for "costs not covered"
        • Recovery aid
        • Specific aid for in-store retail businesses
        • Recovery and solidarity fund for businesses
        • Investment aid aimed at stimulating business investments in the COVID-19 period
        • Reinforcement of export and international development aid measures (ODL)
        • State guarantee scheme for new bank loans for a maximum duration of 6 years
        • The SNCI puts in place "special anti-crisis financing"
        • Repayable financial aid to compensate for temporary financial difficulties caused by the COVID-19 crisis
        • Aid in favour of research and development projects connected with combating Covid-19
        • Investment aid for producing goods relevant to combating Covid-19
        • Fit 4 Resilience Strategic Innovation Program
        • Investment aid for companies which redirect their production to make protective masks or produce hydroalcoholic gel
      • Financing
        • Financing a business - general overview
          • Financing tools by the SNCI (Société nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement)
          • Sources and types of bank and non-bank financing
          • Defining a business’ financial requirements and the most suitable banking solutions (illustration with a balance sheet)
          • Crowdfunding
          • Mezzanine financing
        • Guarantees requested by financial institutions
          • Tangible guarantees involving movable or immovable assets
          • Personal guarantees by right in personam
          • Moral guarantees
        • Financing intangible and capital assets (taking over a business, purchasing business assets, patents or licences, etc.)
          • Subordinated loan for the financing of intangible and capital assets
        • Turning to banks to finance investment projects (creation, improvement or development of a business activity)
          • Medium or long-term loan to finance movable or immovable assets
          • Bullet loan (repayment of the loan in a single payment at maturity)
          • Bridging loan to finance a cash deficit
          • Syndicated loan to finance large-scale projects
          • Property leasing
        • Turning to banks to finance standard investment projects (material, equipment or vehicle fleet)
          • Capital lease to finance a standard investment project
          • Operating lease to finance a standard investment project
          • Medium-term loan to finance a standard investment project
          • Roll-over credit to finance a standard investment project
        • Turning to banks to finance growth (stock or receivables)
          • Cash credit to finance growth
          • Fixed advance to finance growth
          • Invoice advances to finance growth
          • Discount credit to finance growth
          • Factoring to finance growth
      • Financial aid - employment/recruitment/training
        • Employment aid and programmes within the framework of recruitment
          • Aid for the creation of a work-integration job for a long-term unemployed person
          • Support for the re-employment of older unemployed people
          • Re-employment support
          • Requesting tax relief for hiring an unemployed person
          • Apprenticeship subsidies and awards
          • State aid for disabled workers
          • Deducting relocation expenses for highly skilled workers recruited or posted from abroad
          • Supplementary allowance for adult apprenticeships
        • Financial aid for continuing vocational training programmes
          • Financial aid for in-company continuing vocational training
          • Subsidies for Luxembourg language courses
          • Continuing vocational training during short-time work
      • Research, development and innovation aid scheme
        • Aid for R&D and Innovation projects
          • General terms and conditions applicable to all financial aid for research, development and innovation
          • Aid for technical feasibility studies
          • Financial aid for research and development projects (R&D)
          • Aid for process and organisational innovation
          • Financial aid for SME innovation
          • Financial aid for young innovative enterprises
          • Investment aid for research infrastructures
          • Financial aid for innovation clusters
      • SME aid schemes
        • General aid measures for SMEs
          • General terms and conditions
          • Investment aid
          • Aid for consultancy services for SMEs
          • Aid for a first-time participation in a trade fair
          • Aid for young businesses
          • Aid schemes granted to remedy the damages caused by natural disasters
          • Aid for miscellaneous investments
        • Financial aid for tourism infrastructures
          • Aid for campsite operators
          • Aid for tourist infrastructures
          • Aid for hotel businesses
        • Export aid to cover promotion and exhibition costs
          • Export aid to cover promotion and exhibition costs
      • Environmental protection aid schemes
        • Investment aid for the protection of the environment
          • General terms for State aid for environmental aid schemes
          • Investment aid for the protection of the environment
        • Remuneration for the production of energy from renewable energy sources
          • Production of electricity from renewable energy sources
      • ETS aid scheme
        • Aid scheme within the context of the ETS (scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading)
          • Aid scheme within the context of the greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme post-2012
      • Regional aid scheme
        • Regional aid – Differdange and Dudelange
          • General terms and conditions for regional aid
          • Financial aid for regional investments
      • Fit 4 aid schemes
        • Fit 4 Start
          • Aid for starting up - Fit 4 Start
        • Fit 4 Digital
          • Digitalisation aid - Fit 4 Digital
          • Take advantage of the Fit 4 Digital Packages
        • Fit 4 Service
          • Aid for the improvement of customer services - Fit 4 Service
        • Fit 4 Innovation
          • Fit 4 Innovation programme
        • Fit 4 Horizon 2020
          • Fit 4 Horizon 2020 ("H2020") Programme
      • Financial aid - tourism
        • Activities in the interest of national tourism
          • Applying for a subsidy for a tourism project
          • Subsidy application for the maintenance of walking trails
          • Annual subsidy application for tourist information offices
          • Subsidy application for the purchase of special equipment
          • Subsidies for congress tourism
        • Development of the national tourism infrastructure
          • Subsidy application for economic interest groups
          • Aid to natural persons for the purpose of developing the national tourism infrastructure
          • Aid to communes and non-profit organisations to develop the national tourism infrastructure
        • Restart Tourism – Support to non-profit associations promoting tourism
          • Aid to associations managing a tourism infrastructure – Participation in remuneration costs (full-time equivalent calculation)
    • Health & Safety / Social Security
      • Declarations with the Social Security Administration
        • Registering with the Social Security as an employer
          • Registration of employers
          • Registering with an occupational health service
        • Registering with the Social Security
          • Registration for social security of a resident employee
          • Registration for social security of a non-resident employee
          • Social security registration requirements for self-employed persons
          • Registration for social security of the assisting spouse or partner
          • Voluntary health insurance
          • Making a declaration of start of employment to the social security
          • Payment of social contributions for employees
      • Illness / Accident
        • Incapacity for work
          • Incapacity for work and medical certificates
          • Declaring and managing periods of incapacity for work
          • Continuation of pay for an employee on sick leave
        • Work-related accidents or illnesses
          • Reporting an accident at work / a commuting accident
          • Declaring an occupational illness
        • Redeployment of employees
          • Redeployment of employees
      • Medical check
        • Medical check
          • Medical check-up for third-country nationals
          • Pre-employment medical examination
      • Hazardous jobs
        • Personnel / Staff representatives
          • Appointing and training safety officers
          • Safety and health of workers
        • Prevention
          • Young salaried workers in hazardous jobs
          • Requesting a dosimeter
          • Inventory of hazardous jobs
    • Human Resources
      • Coronavirus
        • Request for an increase in the legal daily and/or weekly working time in the health sector, in the nursing and care sector and for staff working in care facilities for minors placed in custodial care
      • Recruitment
        • Searching for a candidate
          • Identifying recruitment needs
          • Declaration of a vacant position
          • Priority for re-employment
          • State aid for disabled workers
          • Selecting a candidate
        • Employment formalities
          • The employee's tax card
        • Hiring an EU national
          • Staying and/or working in Luxembourg for more than 90 days as an EU citizen
          • Loss, theft or damage to the registration certificate or the permanent residence permit for EU nationals
          • Loss, theft or damage to the residence permit for family members of a EU citizen, or of the permanent residence permit for family members of an EU citizen
          • Staying in Luxembourg for less than 90 days as a third-country national and family member of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national
          • Staying and/or working in Luxembourg for less than 90 days as an EU citizen
          • Staying and/or working in Luxembourg as an EU citizen
          • Staying in Luxembourg for more than 3 months as a third-country national and family member of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national
          • Permanent residence permit for EU citizens
          • Requesting a permanent residence permit as a non-EU national and family member of an EU national
          • Staying in Luxembourg for more than 3 months as a third-country national and family member of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national
        • Hiring a non-EU national
          • Living and working in Luxembourg for third-country nationals and their family members
          • Medical check-up for third-country nationals
          • Staying for less than 90 days for third-country nationals
          • Conditions of work for third-country nationals during a stay of less than 90 days in Luxembourg
          • Luxembourg Entry Visa
          • Work for beneficiaries of a postponement of deportation or suspension of deportation for medical reasons
          • Hiring a seasonal worker from a third country for less than 3 months
          • Conditions of residence for third-country salaried workers in Luxembourg
          • Carrying out an ancillary activity as a third-country national family member of a third-country national
          • Carrying out a salaried activity on an ancillary basis as a holder of a residence permit for private reasons
          • Conditions of residence for young au pairs from third countries
          • Requesting a permanent residence permit as a non-EU national and family member of an EU national
          • Work permit exemption for third-country nationals who are the spouse, partner or child of an EU citizen cross-border worker
          • Loss, theft or damage to the residence permit of a third-country national
          • Work for applicants for international protection
          • Conditions of residence in Luxembourg for private reasons for third-country nationals
          • Staying in Luxembourg as a third-country national seasonal worker
          • Salaried work for third-country highly qualified workers (EU Blue Card)
          • Working in Luxembourg as a third-country national and cross-border worker
          • Staying in Luxembourg for more than 3 months as a third-country national and family member of an EU citizen or Luxembourg national
          • Conditions of residence for third-country volunteer workers
          • Conditions of residence for third-country researchers in Luxembourg
          • Conditions of residence for third-country national trainees
          • Conditions for residence in Luxembourg for students from third countries
          • Completing part of your studies in Luxembourg as a third-country student with a residence permit issued in another Member State of the European Union
          • Doing part of your research in Luxembourg as a third-country researcher with a residence permit issued in another Member State of the European Union
          • Staying in Luxembourg to find a job or start a business after the research work
          • Staying in Luxembourg to find a job or start a business after completing your studies
        • Registering as an employer
          • Registration of employers
      • Employment contracts / Collective agreements
        • Employment contracts
          • Permanent employment contract (CDI)
          • Temporary agency work
          • Fixed-term employment contract (CDD)
          • Part-time employment contract
          • Seasonal employment contract
          • Employment reintegration contract
          • Professionalisation internship
          • Amendment of an employment contract
        • Contracts for young people
          • Internship contract or agreement
          • Student work contract during school holidays
          • Fixed-term employment contract for pupils/students
          • Apprenticeship contracts
          • Employment initiation contract (CIE)
          • Introduction of a one-off premium for the promotion of apprenticeship in the field of vocational training in the context of COVID-19
        • Collective agreements
          • Negotiating a collective agreement
          • Implementing a collective agreement
      • Leave
        • Managing leave
          • Register of ordinary and extraordinary leave
        • Annual leave
          • Annual paid leave
        • Leave on personal grounds
          • Paternity leave (Pappecongé)
          • Leave for personal reasons (special leave)
          • Pregnancy and maternity leave
          • Adoption leave
          • Parental leave
          • Leave for family reasons
          • Family hospice leave for nursing a dying or seriously ill person
        • Training leave
          • Individual training leave
          • Unpaid leave for training purposes
          • Linguistic leave
          • Training leave for staff representatives
        • Leave for carrying out a mandate
          • Applying for leave as a member of the national representation of pupils' parents
          • Political leave for elected communal representatives
          • Social mandate leave
        • Leave on the grounds of non-professional activities
          • Sporting leave
          • Special leave for volunteer firefighters in the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (CGDIS)
          • Development cooperation leave
          • Leave for youth workers
        • Job search leave
          • Job search leave
      • Surveillance measures
        • Protection of privacy and electronic data
          • Processing personal data
          • Informing employees and third parties about surveillance in the workplace
          • The Data Protection Officer
      • Working hours and place of work
        • Managing working time
          • Coronavirus / COVID-19
            • Request for an increase in the legal daily and/or weekly working time in the health sector, in the nursing and care sector and for staff working in care facilities for minors placed in custodial care
          • Organising working time
          • Overtime
          • Sunday work
          • Night work
          • Working on public holidays
          • Setting up a time savings account
        • Teleworking
          • Teleworking
        • Temporary layoff
          • Weather-related layoff
          • Involuntary and temporary layoff
      • Employee remuneration
        • Determining and paying salaries
          • Social minimum wage and indexation of salaries
        • Assignment and attachment of earnings
          • Attachment of earnings
          • Making a salary deduction
        • Paying social contributions
          • Payment of social contributions for employees
        • Paying income tax on salaries
          • Withholding tax on salaries
        • Tax cards
          • Annual adjustments carried out by the employer
          • Filing salary and pension statements
      • Continuous vocational training
        • Training plan
          • Training plan
        • Leave for continuing vocational training
          • Individual training leave
          • Linguistic leave
      • Staff representation
        • Staff delegation
          • Organisation of staff delegate elections (as of 1 February 2019)
          • Declaring the holding of social elections
          • Communication of the candidates and the results of the social elections
          • Establishment of the staff delegation (as of 1 February 2019)
          • Rights and responsibilities of the staff delegation and its members
          • Roles of the health and safety representative and equal opportunities officer
      • Movement of workers
        • Posting workers to Luxembourg
          • Declaration of posting of workers
          • Residence of workers posted by businesses established in the EU
          • Residence of workers posted by businesses established outside the EU
          • Posting workers to Luxembourg
        • Transfer to Luxembourg
          • Staying and working in Luxembourg as a transferred worker
          • Staying longer than 90 days in Luxembourg as a third-country national temporary intra-corporate transferee (ICT)
        • Movement of workers to Luxembourg
          • Conditions of residence for self-employed third-country workers
          • Staying and/or working in Luxembourg as an EU citizen
      • End of the working relationship
        • Dismissal/Termination
          • Termination of the employment contract during the trial period
          • Dismissal with notice
          • Dismissal with immediate effect for serious misconduct
          • Collective redundancies
          • Notice of dismissal for reasons not directly related to the employee's person
        • When the employer ceases business
          • Cessation of activity by a trader
        • Terminating the working relationship
          • Transmission of salary statements at the end of the employment relationship
    • Taxation
      • Tax basics
        • Principles
          • General principles of company taxation
          • Classification of taxes
        • Deadlines
          • Tax Calendar
      • Start-up / Takeover
        • Strategic choices
          • Legal form - Fiscal implications
          • Purchase or lease of fixed assets - Fiscal implications
        • Taxation on start-up / takeover
          • Registration fees
        • Tax burden associated with the type of financing
          • Equity financing - Taxation of contributions
          • Financing through loan capital - Interest deductibility
          • Leasing - Fiscal implications
      • Taxation of business profits / assets
        • Taxation of profits generated by sole proprietorships and partnerships
          • Personal income tax
          • Calculating the operating result of a sole proprietorship or a transparent partnership
          • Calculating the taxable result of a sole proprietorship or a transparent partnership
          • Incorporating extraordinary items in the calculation of the net result of sole proprietorships or transparent partnerships
        • Taxation of profits made by capital companies
          • Regularising unpaid taxes
          • Corporate income tax
          • Calculating the operating result of a capital company
          • Calculating the taxable result of a capital company
        • Miscellaneous taxes
          • Taxation of income generated by e-commerce
          • Communal business tax
          • Net wealth tax
          • Property tax
          • Road tax
        • Taxation of profits distributed by the business
          • Distribution of dividends
          • Taxation of interest payments to lenders - Withholding tax
        • Country-by-country reporting
          • Country-by-country reporting
      • Taxation of salaries
        • Paying income tax on salaries
          • Withholding tax on salaries
          • Declaration of withholding tax on directors' fees
        • Tax cards
          • Annual adjustments carried out by the employer
          • Filing salary and pension statements
        • Tax credit - social minimum wage
          • Applying for the social minimum wage tax credit
      • Taxation of turnover: VAT
        • Understanding VAT
          • Value Added Tax (VAT)
          • VAT - Supply of services
          • VAT - Supply of goods
        • Registration / Declaration
          • Registration for VAT
          • eTVA – Registration and access to the system
          • Filing VAT returns
          • Recapitulative statements for goods and services
          • Registering with and accessing the eCDF system
        • Deduction/Refund of input VAT
          • Input VAT - Deduction
          • VAT Refunds - Intra-EU transactions
        • Specific operations
          • VAT - Real estate
          • VAT - e-commerce
        • Mini One Stop Shop (VATMOSS)
          • VAT on electronic services - Registration with the Luxembourg Mini One Stop Shop
          • VAT on electronic services - Declaration via the mini One Stop Shop Luxembourg
          • VAT on electronic services - Deregistration/Exclusion from the mini One Stop Shop Luxembourg
        • VAT group
          • VAT group
      • Development / Restructuring
        • Expansion / Change of the legal form of the company
          • Division / Partial contribution of assets – Tax deferral of capital gains
          • Subsidiary or branch office - Fiscal implications
          • Changing the legal form of the company - Tax impact
        • Acquisition of companies
          • Business takeover - Fiscal implications
          • Considering the tax impact of keeping or integrating companies in the acquiring company
          • Tax consolidation regime
          • The parent-subsidiary regime
          • Intra-group profit transfers
        • Foreign operations
          • Permanent establishment
          • Foreign tax credit method
      • Transfer / Cessation
        • Tax burden associated with transferring a business
          • Transfer ​of a sole proprietorship or partnership - Tax impact
          • Transfer of shares of a capital company - Fiscal impact
        • Tax burden associated with the termination of activity
          • Termination of activity of sole proprietorships / partnerships - Tax impact
          • Termination of activity of a capital company - Tax impact
      • Other taxes
        • Insurance tax
          • Declaring and paying tax on insurance premiums
      • Declaration
        • Cross-border arrangements
          • Reportable cross-border arrangements
    • Retail trade
      • Pricing / Opening hours
        • Opening hours
          • Opening hours for retail stores
        • Pricing
          • Setting prices
          • Price display
      • Commercial practices
        • Advertising/Marketing
          • Misleading advertising / Comparative advertising
          • Putting up a business sign or banner on the facade of a business
        • Amicable settlement of consumer disputes
          • The Mediator of consumption
          • Amicable resolution of disputes between companies and consumers
          • Application to join the list of qualified out-of-court resolution entities
        • Sales
          • Regulated/prohibited commercial practices
          • Door to door selling / doorstep selling
          • Sale to consumers - guarantee of conformity
          • Distance selling to consumers (B2C)
          • Sale of tobacco, alcohol, mineral oils - excise stamp (VCA)
          • Sales
          • Consumer credit agreements
          • The credit intermediary concept
          • Package holiday
          • Associated travel arrangements
      • Hotels, restaurants, cafés
        • Hotels
          • Traveller accommodation forms
          • Classification of accommodation establishments
        • Drinking establishments
          • Establishments selling alcoholic beverages - Alcohol licence
          • Establishments selling alcoholic beverages - Sub-management
          • Managing a drinking establishment (cafe, tearoom or other)
          • Setting up a smoking room
          • Booking an appointment online with the Customs and Excise Agency
      • Competition
        • Anti-competitive practices
          • Respecting free market competition
          • Anti-competitive agreements / Abuse of dominant position
          • Request for leniency following participation in a cartel
      • Food safety
        • Safety of foodstuffs
          • Food safety - a global overview
          • Registration of businesses in the food sector
          • Notification of withdrawal or recall (food and feed sector)
        • Food supplements
          • Declaration of food supplements
      • Public procurement contracts
        • Public tenders
          • Finding public procurement contracts
          • Tendering for public procurement contracts
      • Labels
        • Tourism Labels
          • Quality label "bed + bike"
          • Quality label "Wëllkomm"
          • "EureWelcome" quality label
        • Eco-labels
          • The European Ecolabel
          • EcoLabel for tourist establishments
          • EMAS label (Environment Management and Audit Scheme)
          • Quality label SuperDrecksKëscht fir Betriber
        • Goods / Services
          • "Made in Luxembourg" label
      • Letzshop
        • Registering a business with Letzshop
    • Accounting & Legal obligations
      • Business management
        • Public Limited Company (SA)
          • Managing a public limited company (SA)
          • Convening a general meeting for public limited companies (SA)
          • Shareholders' general meeting of a public limited company
          • Overseeing a public limited company (SA)
        • Limited liability company (SARL)
          • Overseeing a limited liability company (SARL)
          • Shareholders' general meeting of an SARL or an SARL-S
          • Managing a limited liability company (SARL)
        • Trust
          • Filing the details of a fiduciary contract or trust
      • Accounting law
        • Bookkeeping
          • Approval of accounts on the platform for the electronic gathering of financial data (eCDF)
          • The chart of accounts for businesses
          • Accounting obligations of businesses
          • Methods for preparation of annual accounts
      • Trade and Companies Register (RCS)
        • Lodging and Publication
          • Lodging coordinated articles of association with the RCS
          • Filing annual financial statements with the RCS
          • Registering with the Trade and Companies Register as a natural person
          • Registration and modification of the articles of association
          • Convening a general meeting for public limited companies (SA)
          • Publication and lodging of information with the RCS
          • Filing amendments and corrections with the RCS
          • Business registration and filings with the RCS
          • Companies' consolidated accounts
        • Register of Beneficial Owners
          • Filing of beneficial ownership details with the Register of Beneficial Owners
      • Invoicing / Payment
        • Cash inflow
          • Cash payments ≥ EUR 10.000
          • Invoices
          • Payment deadlines / Late payment interest
        • Payment methods
          • Documentary credit - securing international trade transactions
          • Paying invoices in cash
          • Paying by domestic and international transfer
          • Paying by direct debit
          • Paying by credit or payment card
          • Paying by cheque
          • Paying by bill of exchange
          • Using "MultiLine" to manage payments online
          • Optimising flows and expenses by using a network of accounts opened with the foreign subsidiaries of a bank
      • Surplus cash
        • Bank deposit
          • Investing surplus cash in a current account or a demand deposit account
          • Investing surplus cash in a savings account
          • Investing surplus cash in a term deposit
        • Cash optimisation
          • Investing surplus cash in structured products
          • Optimising surplus cash by setting up a cash management system
      • Financial and operating risks
        • Interest rate fluctuation
          • Getting to know foreign exchange transactions
          • Forward rate agreements to hedge the risk of interest rate fluctuation
          • Hedging foreign exchange risks with a forward foreign exchange transaction
          • Using interest rate swaps to hedge the risks of interest rate fluctuations
          • Hedging foreign exchange risks by buying or selling call and put options
          • Hedging the risk of interest rate fluctuations by buying or selling interest rate options
        • Counterparty risk
          • Documentary credit - securing international trade transactions
          • Covering the risks associated with meeting third-party commitments through bank guarantees
        • Insurance
          • Insuring persons involved in the business
          • Insuring property and expenses linked to business operation
          • Liability insurance covering the business activity
      • Disputes
        • Competition
          • Respecting free market competition
          • Anti-competitive agreements / Abuse of dominant position
          • Request for leniency following participation in a cartel
        • Debt collection
          • Recovering debts of over EUR 10,000
          • Recovering debts of under EUR 10,000
          • Recovering debts abroad
          • European Account Preservation Order by a creditor on the bank accounts of a debtor based on a debt instrument
          • European Account Preservation Order by a creditor on the bank accounts of a debtor in the absence of a debt instrument
          • Actions that debtors can take to counter a European Account Preservation Order on their bank accounts
          • Claims in cross-border insolvency proceedings
        • Dispute settlement
          • Protection against scam
          • Solvit - Settling a cross-border dispute with an EU administration amicably
          • Centre for Civil and Commercial Mediation - Resolving a dispute with a professional or private person amicably
          • Ombudsman - Settling a dispute with a Luxembourg administration amicably
        • Assignment and attachment of earnings
          • Attachment of earnings
          • Making a salary deduction
      • Intellectual property
        • Industrial property
          • Registered trademarks
          • Patents
          • Registering a drawing or design
        • Copyright and related rights
          • Protection of copyright and related rights
          • Licence authorising the reproduction of written works and still visual images
      • Fight against money laundering
        • Obligation for professionals to cooperate in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism
    • International Trade
      • Intra-EU trade and services
        • Provision of cross-border services in Luxembourg
          • Gathering information on foreign service providers
          • Providing occasional and temporary services in Luxembourg
          • Notification of occasional and temporary provision of services in Luxembourg (craft or industrial activities)
        • Provision of cross-border services in the Greater Region
          • Freedom to provide services in France
        • Intra-EU trade
          • Circulation of goods subject to excise duty (tobacco, alcoholic beverages, energy products) within the EU
          • Plant passport for the transport of plants and plant products within the European Union
          • Authorisation for authorised warehousekeeper / consignor ou registered consignee (goods submitted to excise duty)
          • Intrastat declarations
      • Import / Export / Transit
        • Essential Codes
          • Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number
          • Tariff classification of goods (CN/TARIC code)
          • Binding Tariff Information (BTI)
          • Choosing Incoterms
        • Transport of dangerous substances
          • Transfer of sealed radioactive sources between EU Member States
          • Transit of radioactive materials
        • Common import, export and/or transit procedures
          • CITES permits for the import or export of protected species
          • Official letter of authority for the introduction or movement of plants and plant products for trials or scientific purposes
        • Import
          • Transferring a weapon into Luxembourg
          • Inward processing - Import and processing of goods with a view to re-export
          • Luxembourg Import Declaration
          • Customs warehousing - Import and storage of goods for the purpose of re-export
          • EUR.1 / Form A / A.TR. certificates - Import
          • Autonomous tariff suspensions - zero rated imports
        • Transit
          • Eurovignette - road toll for trucks
          • Union transit / Common transit
          • International road transport (TIR) - transit of goods between EU and non-EU countries
        • Simplified procedures
          • Authorised economic operator (AEO)
          • ATA carnets - simplified and temporary admission/export procedures
        • Export
          • Export certificate for food of animal origin
          • Pre-export certificate for the transport of plants and plant products within the European Union prior to their export to a third country
          • Transfer of firearms out of Luxembourg
          • Health certificate for the transport of animals within the European Union or for the export to third countries
          • Health certificate or free sale certificate for the export of foods (of non-animal origin) or of food contact materials
          • Certificate of origin
          • Outward processing - Export and processing of goods with a view to their re-import
          • Movement certificate EUR.1 - export
          • Luxembourg Export Declaration
          • Health certificate for the export of animal feed
          • Phytosanitary certificates for the export or re-export of plants, plant products and wood
          • Cultural goods - export licence
      • Control of exports of sensitive and strategic goods (OCEIT - formerly the Licensing Office)
        • Dual-use items
          • Definition of dual-use items
          • Export of dual-use items
          • Import of dual-use items
          • Transit of dual-use items
          • Transfer of dual-use items
          • Brokering of dual-use goods
          • Technical assistance related to dual-use items
          • Intangible transfer of technology related to dual-use items
        • Goods of a strictly civilian nature
          • Definition of goods of a strictly civilian nature
          • Export of goods of a strictly civilian nature
          • Import of goods of a strictly civilian nature
          • Transit of goods of a strictly civilian nature
        • Torture goods
          • Definition of torture goods
          • Export of torture goods
          • Import of torture goods
          • Transit of torture goods
          • Brokering of torture goods
          • Technical assistance relating to torture goods
        • Defence-related products
          • Definition of defence-related products
          • Export of defence-related products
          • Import of defence-related products
          • Transit of defence-related products
          • Transfer of defence-related products
          • Brokering of defence-related products
          • Technical assistance relating to defence-related products
          • Intangible transfer of technology relating to defence-related products
        • Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Definition of restrictive measures
          • Sanctions and restrictive measures - Afghanistan
          • Belarus – Sanctions and restrictive measure
          • Democratic Republic of the Congo – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Iran – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Iraq – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Democratic People's Republic of Korea – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Lebanon – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Libya - Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Myanmar/Burma - Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Central African Republic – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Federation of Russia – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Somalia – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • South Sudan – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Sudan – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Syria – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Terrorist groups – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Ukraine – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • United States of America – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Yemen – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Zimbabwe – Sanctions and restrictive measures
          • Venezuela - Sanctions and restrictive measures
      • Transport
        • Aviation sector
          • Transport of passengers, mail and/or freight by air - Operating licence
        • Maritime sector
          • Accreditation of a maritime company
          • Flying the Luxembourg flag
          • Registration/deletion from the Luxembourg shipping register
          • Requirements for the master and the crew members on a ship
          • Permit for occupation of the public waterway system
          • Permit for use of the public waterway system
          • Identification of small craft
          • Authorisation for priority at locks
          • Authorisation for priority use of docking sites
          • Registration and technical certificates for inland waterway navigation
          • Public aid for inland waterway transport
        • Road sector
          • Accreditation as an IT service provider for Electronic Consignment Notes (e-CMR)
    • Preservation & Termination of a business
      • Protecting employment
        • Short-time working and temporary layoffs
          • Short-time work during the economic recovery period (application and statement)
          • Short-time working for the months of April to June 2020 - summary statement
          • Weather-related layoff
          • Involuntary and temporary layoff
          • Short-time working due to cyclical economic problems
          • Short-time working due to structural economic problems
          • Short-time working in the event of force majeure
          • Short-time working due to economic dependence
          • Continuing vocational training during short-time work
        • Job protection plan
          • Job protection plan
          • Recovery plan
          • Advantages of a job protection plan
        • Other alternatives to redundancies
          • Early retirement due to corporate restructuring
      • Safeguarding business activity
        • Detection and prevention
          • Identifying and preventing underperformance
          • Anti-Crisis Vaccine
        • Economic recovery
          • Reacting to serious difficulties
        • Alternatives to bankruptcy
          • Scheme of composition with creditors
          • Suspension of payments
          • Controlled management
        • Redundancy plan and economic redundancy
          • Dismissal with notice
          • Collective redundancies
      • Cessation of activity
        • Departure of the business manager
          • Cessation of activity by a trader
          • The end of mandate of a company manager
          • Cessation of business activity
        • Dissolution and liquidation of a company
          • Compulsory dissolution/liquidation of a company
          • Voluntary dissolution/liquidation of a company
      • Bankruptcy
        • Dealing with a bankrupt business as a creditor
          • List of bankrupt businesses
          • Creditor claims in bankruptcy
          • Filing a bankruptcy petition
        • Bankrupt businesses
          • Filing for bankruptcy
          • Bankruptcy procedure
    • Procedures by sector of activity
      • Agriculture - Forestry - Viticulture
        • Agriculture
          • Farm structure survey
          • Declaration of agricultural land and vineyard census
          • Application for a change of the contact details or for the inactivation of an agricultural or wine-growing holding
        • Forestry
          • Financial aid for the restoration of forest ecosystems through reforestation
          • Aid for reinforcing the forest ecosystem through natural regeneration
          • Aid for reinforcing the forest ecosystem through the nurturing of young forest stands
          • Reinforcing forest ecosystems by horse or cable logging
          • Improvement and development of forest structure, planning and infrastructure – forestry facilities
          • Improving and developing forest structure, planning and infrastructure – aid for legal costs
          • Aid for preservation of the forest ecosystem by means of protection works – procedures to monitor big-game pressure
          • Aid for popularisation, informational and promotional activities
          • Organisation of training and professional development courses
          • Reinforcing the forest ecosystem through initial selective clearing
          • Maintenance and improvement of the ecosystemic benefits provided by forests for the preservation of tree habitats
          • Maintaining and improving the ecosystemic benefits provided by forests for the conservation of pockets of old growth
          • Maintaining and improving the ecosystemic benefits provided by forests – specifically protecting rare and endangered plant and animal species in the forest environment
          • Maintenance and improvement of the ecosystemic benefits provided by forests – freely evolving forests
          • Improving and development forestry structure, planning and infrastructures – basic management plan
          • Improving the conservation status of oak copses by coppicing
          • Restoring and maintaining structured forest edges
          • Restoring and improving the favourable conservation status of special forest micro-stands
          • Restoration and improvement of the favourable conservation status of rare and remarkable forest phytosociological associations
          • Maintaining and improving the ecosystemic benefits provided by forests – restoration of riparian zones along forest waterways
      • Auditors / Experts
        • Application for accreditation to carry out energy audits
        • Accreditation to calculate the energy performance of buildings and issue energy performance certificates for buildings
        • Technical assessment and inspection tasks - accreditation
      • Aviation
        • Unmanned aircraft system
          • Registering as a UAS operator
      • Care services
        • Registration of businesses in the food sector
        • Chèque-Service Accueil (CSA) service provider – education and care services
        • Education and care service for children – accreditation
        • Education and care service staff
        • Chèque-Service Accueil service provider (CSA – Childcare Service Voucher) – childminding
        • Childminder – accreditation
        • Childcare Service Voucher service providers – mini-crèches
        • Mini-crèches – Accreditation
        • Staff of the mini-crèche
      • Construction
        • Prior notice for temporary or mobile work sites
        • Geothermal drilling permits
        • Exemption for night work on construction sites
      • Culture
        • All sectors
          • Application for a subsidy for individuals carrying out cultural projects
          • Application for a subsidy for associations carrying out cultural projects
          • Subsidy for museums
          • Travel grant for creatives and professionals in the culture sector
          • Travel grant for associations in the cultural sector
          • Applying for a grant to support artistic creation, training and retraining
        • Literature sector
          • Subsidy for translation costs
          • Grant for publishers of cultural periodicals
          • Travel grant for publishers
          • Grant following the publication of an original work of literature
          • Legal deposit of a publication with the Luxembourg National Library
          • Requesting an ISBN, ISMN or ISSN from a national agency
      • Energy
        • Production of electricity from renewable energy sources
        • Application for accreditation to carry out energy audits
        • Accreditation to calculate the energy performance of buildings and issue energy performance certificates for buildings
        • Accès experts
          • experts-habitation
            • Experts bâtiments d'habitation
              • Nouveautés
                • Avis du 15 avril 2011 concernant les versions 64bit de Microsoft Office
              • Spécimens
              • Notes et informations
              • Législation
              • LuxEeB-H-tool
              • FAQ
          • experts-fonctionnel
            • Experts bâtiments fonctionnels
              • Spécimens
              • Notes et informations
              • Législation
              • Nouveautés
              • FAQ
              • Logiciel LuxEeB-F-tool
              • Modèles
      • Healthcare professions
        • Medical practitioners
          • General practitioners and medical specialists
          • Dental practitioners, specialised dentists
          • Veterinary surgeon
          • Mandatory reporting of infectious diseases
          • Mandatory notification of adverse effects of medicinal products (pharmacovigilance)
          • Applying for an individualised support plan (PAI).
        • Other regulated healthcare professions
          • Pharmacists
          • Nurses
          • Midwives
          • Other regulated healthcare professions
        • Other healthcare professions
          • Other healthcare professions
        • Training
          • Approval of continuing education courses in the healthcare sector for training organisations or persons having taken such a course
        • Coronavirus / COVID-19
          • Registration with the health reserve
      • Hotels, restaurants, cafés
        • Accommodation establishments
          • Establishments selling alcoholic beverages - Alcohol licence
          • Traveller accommodation forms
          • Registration of businesses in the food sector
          • Setting up a smoking room
        • Drinking establishments
          • Establishments selling alcoholic beverages - Alcohol licence
          • Establishments selling alcoholic beverages - Sub-management
          • Registration of businesses in the food sector
          • Managing a drinking establishment (cafe, tearoom or other)
          • Setting up a smoking room
        • Labels
          • Quality label "bed + bike"
          • Quality label "Wëllkomm"
          • EcoLabel for tourist establishments
      • Media
        • Legal deposit of audio or video documents with the National Audiovisual Centre
        • Temporary subsidies for the promotion of online journalism
        • Licence to provide a media service from Luxembourg
        • Financial aid for publishers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Private research institutes
        • Private research institutes - accreditation
      • Private security services
        • Private security and surveillance activities - special accreditation
      • Rescue services
        • Accreditation as a rescue training organisation
        • Accreditation as a rescue association or organisation
      • Taxis
        • Application for a taxi operator licence
        • Taxi driver licence
      • Transport
        • By air
          • Transport of passengers, mail and/or freight by air - Operating licence
        • By sea
          • Accreditation of a maritime company
          • Permit for use of the public waterway system
          • Identification of small craft
          • Permit for occupation of the public waterway system
          • Authorisation for priority at locks
          • Authorisation for priority use of docking sites
        • By road
          • Applying for a certificate of authenticity concerning the driving licence
          • Applying for a registration number
          • Paying or contesting a fine when caught by a speed camera
          • Carriage of goods or passengers (> 3.5 tonnes)
          • Transport of goods by road - Community licence
          • Transport of passengers by road - Community licence
          • Financial aid for the purchase of an electric or hybrid vehicle
      • Undertakings for Collective Investment
        • Subscription tax (taxe d'abonnement)
    • Brexit
      • FAQ Brexit
        • Businesses established in Luxembourg
          • Employment of workforce
          • Protection of personal data
        • Businesses established in the United Kingdom
          • Employment of workforce
          • Protection of personal data
      • Social security
        • Registration for social security of a resident employee
        • Registration for social security of a non-resident employee
      • VAT
        • VAT - Supply of services
        • VAT - Supply of goods
        • Recapitulative statements for goods and services
        • VAT Refunds - Intra-EU transactions
      • Import and export of goods
        • Luxembourg Import Declaration
        • Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number
        • Export of dual-use items
      • Posting of employees
        • Declaration of posting of workers
        • Posting workers to Luxembourg
      • Protection of personal data
        • Processing personal data
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