Luxembourg National Report: Tax Avoidance Revisited in the EU BEPS Context

This contribution analyses the status quo of anti-tax avoidance laws and doctrines in Luxembourg in reflection of the developments from the OECD BEPS project and the EU's reaction thereto. Starting from the traditional approach taken by the Luxembourg courts to the term "Steuerumgehung" in §6 StAnpG, it also refers to special and target anti-avoidance rules (SAARs and TAARs) notably in the area of transfer pricing. Please note that the contribution was finalised in summer 2016 and the initial temporal scope of the study had been set until the end of 2015. Later developments, in particular changes to transfer pricing in Luxembourg (Art. 56bis LIR) could therefore not be taken into account.