December 11, 2019

Wealth Managers

CapitalatWork in search of acquisitions in the Netherlands

CapitalatWork is investigating the possibility of making small acquisitions in the Netherlands. The Belgian asset manager states it already has sufficient critical mass in its home market and the Luxembourg market, but is also looking at acquisition …

December 11, 2019

Asset Servicing

Airbnb moves EU payments base to Luxembourg

Airbnb will move the processing of all EU payments from the UK to Luxembourg as of 2020 because of Brexit. The home rental platform opened a subsidiary in Luxembourg at the end of last year and was granted a payment institution license in the country last …

December 10, 2019

Luxembourg SICAVs can reclaim Belgian subscription tax and withholding taxes

In a number of recent judgements, the Court of Appeal in Brussels has confirmed previous case law of the court of first instance that the subscription tax on Luxembourg SICAVs is in violation of the double taxation treaty. Tiberghien Lawyers was one of …