The Chamber held the general discussion on projet de loi 8498, which transposes the MiFID/MiFIR review, the Listing Directive and the European Single Access Point into Luxembourg law, and adopted it by 58 votes to none with 2 abstentions, with dispensation from the second constitutional vote.
The Chamber approved two double-taxation agreements: projet de loi 8537, the protocol with Argentina signed in Washington, adopted by 58 votes to 2, and projet de loi 8538, the new convention with the Sultanate of Oman, taken with report and without debate and adopted by 58 votes to 2.
While approving the double-taxation protocol with Argentina (projet de loi 8537), deputies and the finance minister debated Luxembourg's diplomatic and economic relations with Argentina and South America, the record of President Milei's government, and Argentina's continuing refusal to accredit the Luxembourg honorary consul.
The Chamber adopted projet de loi 8540, which makes the 40,000-euro Bëllegen Akt tax credit permanent, unanimously with 60 votes, and projet de loi 8547, which extends the housing-package tax measures to reservation contracts registered by 30 June 2025, by 58 votes with 2 abstentions; a déi Lénk motion asking the government to commission a scientific study of the cost and effect of those housing tax measures was debated and put to the vote at the end of the item.
The Chamber debated the motion tabled by Dan Hardy (ADR) asking the government to cut the VAT rate on beer and wine served in the Horeca sector from 17 percent, and rejected it after the finance minister said the EU VAT directive no longer allows a return to the 3 percent rate.