LU Value added tax

Invoicing in Luxembourg

A business registered in Luxembourg charges VAT at a standard rate of ⁨17%⁩, invoices in ⁨EUR⁩, and issues documents under names and numbering rules that are specific to Luxembourg. DocsOrigin carries all of that as registry data, so choosing Luxembourg once configures the tax, the document set, the numbering and the layout together.

Invoicing in Luxembourg is free forever with DocsOrigin: every document type, every export, no card and no trial.

Tax in Luxembourg

VAT 17%
Reduced and zero rates 14% 8% 3% 0%

How reliable is this figure

Graded high: this rate has been checked against a tax-authority or official source. It is still your responsibility to confirm it before you rely on it.

Whatever the grade, your own setting always wins — a rate you enter overrides the registry everywhere, including on documents already dated in the past.

Document types recognised in Luxembourg

These are the documents DocsOrigin will offer a business registered in Luxembourg, under the names used there. A type that has no meaning locally is not offered at all.

Penawaran

Penawaran berharga. Bukan dokumen pajak dan tidak tercatat di buku Anda hingga diterima.

Faktur pro forma

Permintaan pembayaran. Tidak memberi hak kepada klien untuk mengurangkan pajak.

Faktur pajak

Dokumen pajak itu sendiri. Terkunci setelah diterbitkan.

Faktur-kwitansi

Faktur dan pembayaran dalam satu dokumen, untuk ketika Anda dibayar di tempat.

Kwitansi

Mengkonfirmasi uang yang diterima terhadap faktur.

Nota kredit

Satu-satunya cara sah untuk membatalkan atau mengurangi dokumen yang sudah diterbitkan.

Nota pengiriman

Barang diserahkan tanpa biaya.

Tax identifier

On a document issued in Luxembourg the identifier is labelled VAT number. It is printed in the header of every tax document, isolated left-to-right so it reads correctly in any interface language.

Expected format ^LU\d{8}$

DocsOrigin checks this identifier's structure as you type — a wrong number on an issued document cannot be corrected by editing it.

As an EU member state, a Luxembourg number follows the EU VAT pattern and can be checked for structure before you rely on it for a reverse-charge supply.

Numbering

Documents in Luxembourg are expected to run in an unbroken sequence. DocsOrigin allocates the number at the moment of issue — never earlier — so a draft that is abandoned does not burn a number and leave a gap you have to explain.

Prefix, padding and yearly reset are configurable per document type, and the series is kept separately for each type.

How Luxembourg writes dates and money

Set the country and these stop being settings you have to think about. The examples below are rendered by the same formatter the documents use.

Date
21/09/2026
Amount
12 345,67 €
Currency
EUR
Minor units
2

⁨EUR⁩ is written with ⁨2⁩ decimal places, and every amount is stored as a whole number of minor units. ⛔ Money never touches floating point.

Selling from Luxembourg to another EU member state

A business customer in another member state with a valid VAT number is a reverse-charge supply: no tax is charged and the document has to say so, with the customer's number on it. A private customer in another member state is not. DocsOrigin suggests the treatment and prints the legal wording and the reason.

A worked example in Luxembourg

Three lines, priced identically everywhere, run through the real tax engine with the Luxembourg registry entry applied. This is what the document looks like there.

Penawaran Faktur pro forma Faktur pajak Faktur-kwitansi Kwitansi Nota kredit
Northwind Studio
VAT number 000000000 · Luxembourg
Faktur pajak
No. 2026-0042
Tagihan untuk Riverbank Coffee
Deskripsi Qty Harga satuan Total
Pekerjaan desain 12 45,00 € 540,00 €
Panduan merek 1 380,00 € 380,00 €
Dukungan berkelanjutan 3 60,00 € 180,00 €
Total bersih 1 100,00 €
VAT 17% 187,00 €
Total 1 287,00 €

Invoicing in Luxembourg — questions

What tax rate do I charge in Luxembourg?

The standard VAT rate recorded for Luxembourg is ⁨17%⁩. Reduced rates may apply to particular supplies, and your own setting always overrides ours.

Which document do I issue to a customer in Luxembourg?

The document set recognised in Luxembourg is listed above, under the names used locally. For a paid sale the usual document is Faktur pajak, and a mistake on an issued document is corrected with a credit note rather than an edit.

Does DocsOrigin cost anything in Luxembourg?

No. DocsOrigin is free forever for businesses in Luxembourg as everywhere else: no subscription, no card, no trial, no per-document fee and no export fee. Optional professional services are the only thing that is ever charged for, and they are quoted per project.

What if the rate for Luxembourg is wrong or changes?

Set your own rate in the business settings and it overrides the registry immediately, for new documents and for any date. Rates are applied by document date, so an old document keeps the rate that applied when it was issued.

Also billing in ⁨EUR⁩

The currency is shared, but the tax, the document names and the numbering rules are not. Each of these has its own entry.

Issue your first Luxembourg document

Choose Luxembourg once. The tax, the document names, the numbering, the date order and the currency format are configured together, and it costs nothing.

Free forever for businesses Buat faktur pertama Anda

This page describes what DocsOrigin does with the registry entry for Luxembourg. It is not tax advice, and it is not a statement of Luxembourg law. Confirm your obligations with your accountant or the tax authority. Registry data as of ⁨2026-08⁩.