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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 | 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: 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 | 3 September 2017
A business owner is entitled to being refunded for turnover tax on supplies and services the remuneration for which he has not, and will never, collect.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 2 September 2017
The small business scheme forms part of the turnover tax regime in the Netherlands and mitigates the turnover tax to be remitted by natural persons
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 21 August 2017
The majority of business owners in the Netherlands “ go with the quarterly flow” where it concerns the filing of their turnover tax returns. Have you ever considered switching to monthly filing? You may find it surprisingly helpful!
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 8 August 2017
The director shareholders familiarity with the cleaning industry should have ensured his being au fait with the prevailing reverse-charge mechanism.
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 27 May 2017
The option is available for businesses to set off their value-added tax credit for a particular month against their withholding tax charge for that month.
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 11 May 2017
The application of the zero rate is required to be evidenced by the accounts and records maintained by the owner of the business which has applied the zero rate.
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 9 April 2017
An audit by the Tax and Customs Administration of the accounts of a hospitality business revealed that the detailed order information has been deleted from the accounting records.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 29 March 2017
Each year, many international professionals come to the Netherlands to live and work, and rightly so. Our country is a fantastic place, with many business opportunities for those willing to seize them. But many visitors overlook a crucial detail: the fact that the Netherlands has one of the most complicated tax systems in the world. […]
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 25 March 2017
The Court of Appeal in January of this year delivered its verdict in a case involving input tax deduction for lawyer’s fees by ruling that the value-added tax charged on legal advice fees should not be deductible as the tax payer in question had failed to render it sufficiently plausible that the value-added tax had related to his business operations.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 17 March 2017
The turnover tax regime calls for each individual performance to be separately addressed. There are situations in which separate performances may be regarded as a single act.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 10 February 2017
As the law does not dictate when exactly an invoice must be raised, it follows that this can be done in anticipation of the agreed consideration.
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 2 December 2016
Soon it will be permissible for EU Member States to introduce a reduced value-added tax rate for e-books and digital publications.
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 1 December 2016
The European Commission is about to launch a value-added tax counter. What shalll be the possibilities?
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 4 November 2016
An entrepreneur who took part in value-added tax fraud, is not entitled to a deduction or refund of related sales tax.
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 5 September 2016
Please remember to file your application in good time as the recipient EU Member State(s) may refuse to entertain tardy requests.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 22 August 2016
The accountant had repeatedly stressed the need for the company to file a supplementary tax return, the director refused to do so.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 17 August 2016
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has tabled a prejudicial question with the European Court of Justice concerning the application of multiple value-added tax rates to a single service.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 23 July 2016
The Dutch State Secretary for Finance is not considering the abolition of the small business scheme forming part of the value-added tax regime.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 12 July 2016
Not all on-line sellers of game activation codes charge value-added tax, but electronic service provision is liable for value-added tax in the Netherlands.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 26 May 2016
Value-added tax payments made by business owners in EU Member States outside the Netherlands where the business in question does not file its taxes are eligible for recovery upon request from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 16 April 2016
The European Commission has presented an action plan aimed at overhauling the value-added tax system. Click for more!
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 16 December 2015
Crowdfunding is the practice of soliciting contributions from members of the community in order to get particular projects off the ground in which the donors thus have closer involvement. However, this does not necessarily bestow value-added tax exemption on crowdfunding.
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