Crypto-currencies and taxes
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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Rating of Tax Information Helpline performance
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 7 June 2018
Tax Information Helpline is contacted between 12 and 13 million times annually by private individuals and business owners who are in need of information or help in tax-related matters.
Tax and Customs Administration beaten by GDPR deadline
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 7 June 2018
GDPR, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (which in the Netherlands is referred to as “AVG”), has been in full force and effect since the 25th of May of this year.
Crack-down on tax avoidance, tax evasion
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 18 May 2018
The Upper House’s Standing Committee for Finance has submitted questions to the State Secretary for Finance concerning his crack-down on tax avoidance and tax evasion.
Additional parking tax assessments quashed
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 15 March 2018
The collection of parking tax customarily takes place at municipal (or council) level. Drivers who do not bother paying at all or who overstay the allotted time run the risk of being treated to an additional assessment.
Enforcement of DBA Act to be suspended until first of January 2020
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.
Retirement reserve and entrepreneur’s allowance 2018
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.
Becon business
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.
Cabinet responds to Paradise Papers
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.
Calculation of interest on overdue tax
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 28 September 2017
The Netherlands Collection of State Taxes Act 1990 stipulates that the tardy payment of tax assessments warrants the levying of interest on overdue tax by the authorities.
Stamp duty land tax refund
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 15 September 2017
Are you entitled to a refund of stamp duty land tax? Read our article to know more about this!
General consultation on Tax and Customs Administration versus Message Box
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 14 September 2017
The Dutch State Secretary for Finance has gone into detail on a number of topics, also about the Message Box.
Sales and profit adjustments featuring cream-off module
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 18 August 2017
A few years ago the “cream-off module” forming part of certain point-of-sale (POS) or cash register systems caused quite a stir.
Anti-tax evasion measures offered for Internet consultation
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 31 July 2017
The Dutch Finance Ministry has just offered for Internet consultation a foursome of proposed measures aimed at working against anti-tax evasion.
Transfer tax exemption for shares in property company
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 20 July 2017
Transactions involving immoveable property based in the Netherlands being purchased are liable for property transfer tax.
Interest on tax: what are the rules?
Written by: Willemijn Houter | 23 June 2017
The Dutch State Secretary for Finance in response to parliamentary questions on the subject has recently explained why less interest is paid on tax refunds than is charged on outstanding taxes.
Value-added tax registration number enables citizen service number to be traced
Written by: Sean-Paul Smit | 20 June 2017
Should sole traders be granted exemption from the obligation to post their value-added tax registration number on their web site?
New law against unreasonably long terms of payment
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 18 May 2017
26 April of this year saw the publication in the Netherlands Bulletin of Acts, Orders and Decrees of a new law aimed against unreasonably long terms of payment being wielded,
Draft legislation in implementation of EU’s Fourth Anti Money Laundering Directive
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 8 April 2017
The EU’s 2015-adopted Fourth Anti Money Laundering Directive makes it compulsory for the Member States to introduce a central register of ultimate beneficiaries of companies and other legal entities.
Chamber of Commerce probe of sole tradership
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 10 March 2017
The Dutch Chamber of Commerce has carried out a survey aimed at identifying the specific trials and tribulations experienced by sole traders,
Check your “M form” based income tax assessment for 2015
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 22 February 2017
The Tax office may inadvertently have failed to factor your “deduction taxed elsewhere” into its calculations on the M Form.
Clamp-down on tax dodging
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 6 February 2017
The Dutch State Secretary for Finance in a letter to the Lower House of Parliament has elaborated on how he intends to clamp down on tax dodging.
Call for paper-based tax correspondence
Written by: Marcel Frazer | 3 February 2017
The Lower House wants the Tax Office to send important correspondence by post.
Early mortgage repayment
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 2 December 2016
Although mortgage interest rates too have fallen to near-record lows, they still top the interest rates on savings by several percent.
Out with the old, in with the new act
Written by: Bas Hollenberg | 22 November 2016
The replacement of the “VAR” regime by the Netherlands Act on “DBA” has inadvertently caused considerable upheaval.