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Guides to checking companies
Practical guides to working with the Luxembourg registers — from RCS numbers and VAT numbers to annual reports.
How to check a Luxembourg company: the complete guide
What is public in Luxembourg and what is not: the Trade and Companies Register, the annual accounts filed with the Centrale des Bilans, the VAT number in VIES — and the registers you are wrongly told to check.
Read the articleRCS number and VAT number: the difference, and how to check both
A Luxembourg company's two identifiers, issued by two different authorities. Neither can be worked out from the other, and only one of them can be checked online.
Read the articleConfidential accounts: why half of Luxembourg companies publish no turnover
51.7% of filed periods in Luxembourg publish a balance sheet with no profit and loss account, and turnover appears in only 7.6% of them. That is not secrecy — it is what the form asks for.
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