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Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 22 February 2018
The Tax and Customs Administration has carried out a survey of the procedural sequence of events involving the issue of 4,000-plus internationally oriented tax rulings. The survey has shown the internal procedural requirements as not having consistently been adhered to.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 16 February 2018
The Dutch State Secretary for Finance has responded to parliamentary questions on the issue of double taxation being levied on the pension benefits of cross-border workers from Belgium.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 9 February 2018
As you probably know, the Labour Relations Assessment (Deregulation) Act of the Netherlands (Dutch acronym: DBA) is heading for replacement.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 5 February 2018
Having worked for two cooperatives, B and C, as an administrative and tax consultant until 2008 (under a fictional employment format for payroll tax purposes), stakeholder Z together with his business partner A has since been a participant in and board member of said two cooperatives.
Written by: Stan Evers | 1 February 2018
It is not unusual for this time of year to see provisional assessments for income and corporation tax coming thick and fast, demanding up-front initial payment or confirming a rebate.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 25 January 2018
With effect from the first of January 2019, foreign tax payers will no longer receive the tax component of their tax credits as part of their payroll tax.
Written by: Stan Evers | 22 January 2018
Anyone who has recently attended a birthday party or similar gathering has found that at least some of the guests tend sooner or later to broach the topic of whether or not to invest in bitcoins.
Written by: Stan Evers | 12 January 2018
2018 is off to a good start in that the Tax and Customs Administration is making headway in its digitisation efforts. This has rendered the filing of supplementary value-added tax returns an exclusively digital affair since the first of January of this year.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 11 January 2018
The Subdistrict Court found itself adjudicating the case of an employee of whose service contract a confidentiality clause (which extended to the employer’s clients and business associates), a non-compete clause and a non-solicitation clause had formed part, banning him on pain of penalty from making disclosure to third parties – both during the term of […]
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 7 January 2018
The addition to the retirement reserve for entrepreneurs has been fixed at 9.44% of earnings for 2018 to a maximum of € 8.775, less pension premiums charged to said earnings.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 6 January 2018
The Dutch investment allowance scheme is aimed at boosting capital expenditure by business owners. Read more!
Written by: Stan Evers | 3 January 2018
A new year is the perfect opportunity to think about good intentions. What are your good intentions? Let us help you start!
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 14 December 2017
The 30% ruling provides for a special regime aimed at Dutch-based expatriate workers who boast particular skills that are in short supply in the domestic labour market.
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 11 December 2017
Do not overlook your input tax credit adjustment! Read our end-of-year turnover tax tips!
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 5 December 2017
KIA, the small-scale investment allowance scheme, has been designed with the aim of boosting capital expenditure.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 4 December 2017
You will be able to recover the turnover tax component by including it in your inaugural turnover tax return for 2018!
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 23 November 2017
A becon number is which the Tax and Customs Administration uses in identification of a particular tax consultant or administration office.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 17 November 2017
The Prime Minister has written to the Lower House in response to the latter’s request for more detailed information on the businesses having been involved in the consultation round on the topic of dividend tax,
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 17 November 2017
Menno Snel, the Dutch State Secretary for Finance, has written to the Lower House in response to publications on the topic of the Paradise Papers.
Written by: Stan Evers | 6 November 2017
The month of January is when you will have to file your payroll tax return, to render account of your overrun – if any – of the free margin as per WKR, the work-related expenses scheme.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 3 November 2017
The Dutch government by abolishing dividend tax would do away altogether with the legal predicament. If the Netherlands’ Third Rutte Cabinet has its way, the abolition of dividend tax will be a fact by 2020.
Written by: Stan Evers | 29 October 2017
The Hague Court of Appeal defined the € 120,000 gain as tax-exempted debt relief income. The 2007 suretyship had committed the guarantor to making a particular payment to the bank.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 25 October 2017
Only digital (supplementary) value-added tax returns may be filed by business owners from the first of January 2018 onwards.
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 19 October 2017
Employees who have the use of a company car have to live with the corresponding addition being made to their income!
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 18 October 2017
A non-compete clause will make it more difficult for the employee in question to take up a position elsewhere when his or her employment contract ends.
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