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Introduction

The Luxembourg Tax Authority (Administration des contributions directes (ACD)) published on 6 February 2017 the ECHA - n° 4 Circular. This Circular describes the format and procedures of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) that Luxembourg Reporting Financial Institutions (RFI) will have to follow according to the CRS Luxembourg law, 24 December 2015.

Manual filing through e-file v2

Environment

Step 1: Select your environment:

Production environment : https://www.e-file.lu/e-file/

Homologation environment (Test) : https://homologation.e-file.lu/e-file/

Login

Step 1: Enter your e-file login credentials (user name and password) and click the Access button.

IMPORTANT: If you do not have an e-file user account or if you do not remember your password, you might contact your e-file administrator of your company.

Access CRS form

Step 1: Click on the Report Generation icon:

Step 2: Select Formulaire CRS

Result: the CRS form opens

Complete CRS form

AEOI reference

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• This field has to be completed with a unique identifier.

• The ACD recommends to use a "timestamp", a digital counter or a "GUID" (Globally Unique Identifier).

• Specification examples: only capital characters (A-Z), number 0-9, must be unique, etc. Cf.

• The ACD asks not to include confidential data in the identifying elements.

Cf. ECHA - n° 4 of 6 February 2017, page 21-22.

Information on depositor

• Depositor name (pre-filled): The Depositor is an entity (legal or natural person) that is in charge of filing the FATCA reporting to the ACD (e.g. Service provider). Cf. ECHA - n° 3 of 19 January 2017, page 6.

• Personal Identification Number (pre-filled): The Depositor needs a Personal Identification Number (Luxembourgish Matricule Number also known as CCSS code) to be able to file the report.

If the Depositor does not have a Luxembourgish Matricule Number, he has to contact the Bureau de la retenue d'impôt sur les intérêts

-by mail: aeoi@co.etat.lu

-by phone: Phone book_Bureau de la retenue d'impôt sur les intérêts

IMPORTANT: all pre-filled data have to be communicated to Fundsquare in order to be integrated in Fundsquare's database and to be available in the FATCA form

Send mail to: OnboardingFatcaCRS@fundsquare.net

Cf. Onboarding/Update process FATCA/CRS