Published fee · Financial Services Luxembourg · 2026

How much does a Luxembourg business licence cost for an e-commerce business?

Name: Financial Services Luxembourg
Address: 142 Boulevard de la Pétrusse, Luxembourg, L-2330, LU
Telephone: +352 661 198 544
Price range: €€€

The business licence for e-commerce and online sales costs EUR 750 excl. VAT in fees at Financial Services Luxembourg, chancellery disbursement extra. Online retail is a free-access activity: the file rests on integrity, a fixed establishment and an effective manager, with no qualification required.

What are the conditions of the file?

Professional integrity of the effective manager, criminal-record extract and sworn statement.
Free access: no qualification required in the general case.
Fixed establishment in Luxembourg and effective management of the business.
Effective manager who genuinely runs the company, no figurehead.

What does it cost, exactly?

Fees, excluding 17% VAT
Item	Amount
Financial Services Luxembourg fees, flat fee	EUR 750 excl. VAT
Chancellery duty, official disbursement re-invoiced at cost	EUR 50
Full grid of procedures and flat fees	see the 2026 grid

What sets an e-commerce file apart comes after the licence: B2C sales to other EU countries run through the VAT One-Stop-Shop, to be anticipated at registration, and your terms of sale bind you from the first order. The licence is only the first brick; the 2026 fee grid details the commerce and e-commerce offer, OSS included.

How does the filing proceed?

We prepare the file, submit it on MyGuichet to the Directorate-General for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and follow it through to the decision. You sign, we do the rest; the flat fee is confirmed in writing before any hour is billed.

What accounting budget after the licence?

An e-commerce business filing quarterly VAT typically sits around EUR 485 excl. VAT per month of retainer, marketplace flows included; the entry tier starts at EUR 250. Volume-based bookkeeping tiers, OSS returns and payroll are all published on the full fee grid.

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Official sources: guichet.public.lu, business licence · Luxembourg Business Registers. Fee amounts: Financial Services Luxembourg pricing policy, verified on 22 August 2026, excluding 17% VAT. This page informs; it does not constitute legal advice, and complex deeds are referred to a lawyer.