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Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 11 October 2018
The Dutch Cabinet in response to news that Unilever will not be relocating its headquarters to the Netherlands has decided to go back on its earlier proposal to abolish the dividend withholding tax.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 4 October 2018
The Dutch State Secretary for Finance, Menno Snel, has asserted that exceptions to the proposed increase in the lower VAT-rate are not on the cards as far as he is concerned.
Written by: Stan Evers | 2 October 2018
One of the announcements made was that the legislator with effect from 2019 is curtailing the 30 percent ruling for so-called knowledge migrants to five year.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 23 September 2018
The Dutch cabinet intends to raise the lower value-added tax-rate from its current level of six percent to nine percent, as was already mentioned in the coalition agreement.
Written by: Stan Evers | 22 September 2018
The Dutch corporation tax rate is to undergo incremental reduction over a three-year term, to 19 and 24.3 percent in 2019 and to 17.5 and 23.9 percent in 2020.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 21 September 2018
The withholding tax is aimed at preventing the Netherlands being used to an even greater degree as a conduit to tax havens once the dividend tax has been abolished.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 21 September 2018
Ex-patriate workers in the Netherlands are eligible – subject to specific conditions being met – to collect a tax-exempt reimbursement from their employer for additional costs incurred owing to their temporarily having to reside outside their country of origin.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 20 September 2018
The third Tuesday in September, or “Prince’s Day” as it is affectionately known, is the date of the state opening of the new Parliamentary year in the Netherlands and a day not only of pomp and circumstance, but one which involves the presentation of next year’s tax budget.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 18 September 2018
The Tax and Customs Administration’s ruling practice has been a topic of debate domestically for some considerable time. A tax ruling is an (advance) agreement between the tax authorities and a tax payer in the context of which the former provide the latter with certainty regarding the fiscal consequences of particular juristic acts and/or actions on the latter’s part.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 1 September 2018
If you are a business owner who in 2017 made value-added tax payments in an EU Member State other than the Netherlands without having tax filing liability there, you have the option of recovering the value-added tax.
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 18 August 2018
the Tax and Customs Administration intends by the end of the current year to have completed fact-finding missions at over a hundred principals to discuss the latter’s modus operandi where it concerns their contractors.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 17 August 2018
It is important when interpreting a non-compete clause in addition to examining the actual phrasing also to consider the significance of the clause in the perception of the parties involved and their warranted expectation of one another in this respect.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 16 August 2018
Reconciliation and accuracy are essential in order for a mileage log to “make the grade”. Read the article for more info!
Written by: Stan Evers | 9 August 2018
If in the past you have successfully applied for a provisional income tax refund or provisional income tax assessment, you would do well from time to time to reassess your (financial cum fiscal) situation and communicate the necessary adjustments to the Tax and Customs Administration.
Written by: Stan Evers | 3 August 2018
The calculation of the operating profit calls for allowances being made for a depreciation restriction where it concerns the value of commercial property.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 2 August 2018
Employees cannot in principle have their employment contract legitimately terminated by their employer without their written consent unless the scenario at hand is one of summary dismissal, for which the employer must have urgent cause.
Written by: Stan Evers | 28 July 2018
Whenever the Tax and Customs Administration finds itself fielding a barrage of objections on a single theme, it has the option of dealing with all of these objections collectively provided the matter in dispute is identical between them.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 27 July 2018
There are scenarios in which the reverse-charge mechanism ensures that liability for payment of the value-added tax component comes to rest with the recipient rather than the supplier of the product or service.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 20 July 2018
It is obligatory for entrepreneurs to include turnover tax in the amounts they charge to their customers for goods (to be) supplied or services (to be) rendered.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 12 July 2018
The Netherlands intends to start charging charge air transport tax in 2021. Its preferred option would be the introduction of an unambiguous set of air transport regulations at EU level
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 10 July 2018
Value-added tax registration numbers issued by the Tax and Customs Administration to sole traders feature the latter’s citizen service number.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 6 July 2018
The government is continuing to grapple with the position of sole traders both fiscally and from a labour law perspective!
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 5 July 2018
The first step is being taken of a European drive aimed at improving international taxation reconciliation and deterring tax avoidance.
Written by: Stan Evers | 22 June 2018
RVO.nl, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, in 2017 allocated a total of € 1,455 million in rebates by virtue of WBSO, the Promotion of Research and Development Act of the Netherlands, to just over 21,000 Dutch businesses, 97% of them SMEs.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 21 June 2018
It cannot be ruled out given the speed of developments in the area of crypto-currencies that the fiscal qualification and treatment of crypto-currencies will be undergoing change.
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