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Written by: Nico Koppel | 15 March 2019
Under the current Dutch system a two percent stamp duty land tax charge is levied in connection with the transfer of title to existing residential properties ..
Written by: Nico Koppel | 13 March 2019
The Dutch State Secretary for Finance has published a draft decision providing for transitional legislation in the event of a “no-deal Brexit” involving the United Kingdom pulling out of the European Union without a withdrawal agreement having been reached.
Written by: Stan Evers | 6 March 2019
Where the foreign country in question is one of the countries with which the Netherlands entertains double taxation conventions, the tax jurisdiction as regards the remuneration earned overseas will be dictated by the tax treaty in question.
Written by: Stan Evers | 4 March 2019
The Tax and Customs Administration is in the process of alerting entrepreneurs whose net turnover for 2017 and 2018 each totalled less than 5,000 euros to the possibility of their not having satisfied all of the allowance criteria.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 1 March 2019
Your pre-completed income tax return for 2018 is ready for you to be used. Please find a summary of this year’s changes compared with 2017 and other points for particular attention.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 21 February 2019
A “licence to uninterrupted leisure time” should accrue to everyone, as an indispensable right enabling the relief – or, better still, the prevention – of complaints of a stress and burn-out related nature.
Written by: Stan Evers | 20 February 2019
The divestment of a business or of operating assets customarily involves the subdivision of the overall purchase price for the various components of the transaction …
Written by: Stan Evers | 14 February 2019
One of the plans included in the current Dutch cabinet’s coalition agreement relates to “Box 3” tax being levied on the basis of actual yield rather than on that of notional yield, as is currently being done.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 13 February 2019
When the director-cum-controlling shareholder of a private limited-liability company arranges for the company to grant him or her as loan the repayment of which is doubtful, this will cause the loan to come under the heading of “profit distribution” …
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 7 February 2019
Questions have been tabled in the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament on the treatment in terms of value-added tax rate of digital books, journals, newspapers and magazines.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 6 February 2019
As a business owner you may be about to receive (or perhaps have already received) an urgent letter from an outfit by the name of EBN European Business Number.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 4 February 2019
The validation report provides for an assessment of how pertinent the Tax and Customs Administration’s procedures and preparations for a “hard Brexit” are
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 2 February 2019
The WKR scheme currently features a “free margin” of 1.2 percent of the wage bill for tax purposes within which allowances and disbursements may be distributed to employees on a tax-exempt basis.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 31 January 2019
Any employee who is rendered occupationally disabled is entitled to (up to) two years’ worth of continued wage payments by his or her employer.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 25 January 2019
Goodwill acquired in a business transaction is capitalised in the business’ balance sheet, then amortised against business earnings.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 24 January 2019
Turnover tax returns are required to be filed within one month of the end of the period under review, with payment to the Receiver of the corresponding tax charge (as per the tax return) having to be made within one month of the end of the relevant period.
Written by: Stan Evers | 13 January 2019
Loans taken out in aid of the acquisition, maintenance or improvement of owner-occupied homes are regarded as home acquisition debts.
Written by: Stan Evers | 12 January 2019
Voluntary disclosure by a tax payer occurs when the latter (belatedly) furnishes the correct information before he or she knows or reasonably presumes that the Tax and Customs Administration is, or is about to become, aware of the inaccuracy or incompleteness of his or her tax return.
Written by: Stan Evers | 11 January 2019
The “Box 1” income tax rate in addition to comprising operating profit and earnings from employment also accommodates income from activities.
Written by: Stan Evers | 10 January 2019
The Tax and Customs Administration will hand down a tax loss ruling in confirmation of such a negative income.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 7 January 2019
The Dutch investment allowance regime has been designed as an incentive for entrepreneurs to invest in operating assets.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 6 January 2019
In order for an entrepreneur to pass the hours test and thus qualify for entrepreneur’s allowance, he or she has to devote at least 1,225 hours per annum and half of his or her aggregate working hours to his or her business.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 5 January 2019
Private use of company car, 30 percent ruling and more. Read more about the payroll tax changes of 2019!
Written by: Nico Koppel | 4 January 2019
The Netherlands has compiled a Government Gazette-published, 21 country strong tax haven blacklist for deployment in the context of new anti-tax evasion measures.
Written by: Nico Koppel | 23 December 2018
The Upper House of the Dutch Parliament has passed the measures as outlined in the 2019 Tax Plan in their entirety.
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