Luxembourg feels confident on EU challenge over Atad 1

Luxembourg’s financial sector has felt targeted by the European Commission’s tax policy. Three subsequent anti-tax avoidance directives - known as Atad 1, 2 and 3 – each added more reporting requirements or forced adjustments to tax structures. In July the Commission referred Luxembourg to the Court of Justice of the European Union over how it extended an exemption from interest deductibility limits to EU securitisation entities in implementing the first Atad directive. But Luxembourg feels it has a strong case and seems happy to settle it in court.