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A small office cash drawer is being rearranged by a tiny bureaucratic hand reaching from a baby incubator containing an unfinished official bundle. A small office cash drawer is being rearranged by a tiny bureaucratic hand reaching from a baby incubator containing an unfinished official bundle.
  • Ledger & Tax

Tax Plan 2027 Is Already Touching 2026 Cash Decisions

A two-cent travel allowance shows why founders should date assumptions before the law is final.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 12, 2026
A corporate sale meeting has turned into an archaeological dig inside a boardroom, with suited advisers excavating dusty tax documents from the floor while the founder watches uneasily. A corporate sale meeting has turned into an archaeological dig inside a boardroom, with suited advisers excavating dusty tax documents from the floor while the founder watches uneasily.
  • Ledger & Tax

A Short Tax Ruling Shows How Long BV Memory Runs

A Hoge Raad closure turns old group debt, losses, and tax interest into present-day discipline.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 11, 2026
Executives shelter a tiny collapsed foreign office with a large umbrella on a boardroom table while runoff leaks onto payslips, and a payroll clerk catches it in a bucket. Executives shelter a tiny collapsed foreign office with a large umbrella on a boardroom table while runoff leaks onto payslips, and a payroll clerk catches it in a bucket.
  • Ledger & Tax

A Foreign Subsidiary Closure Can Reach the Dutch Payroll Budget

The liquidation loss ruling is a timing lesson for tax, evidence, cash, and wages.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 11, 2026
In a small office, a bookkeeper opens a thin invoice and a complete staffed workstation pops out of it, while payroll folders spill across the desk. In a small office, a bookkeeper opens a thin invoice and a complete staffed workstation pops out of it, while payroll folders spill across the desk.
  • Ledger & Tax

Low Contractor Rates Put Dutch Payroll Risk on the Table

The proposed €38 presumption is civil law, but the tax pressure is already real.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 10, 2026
A Dutch notary meeting is interrupted as a tiny share certificate being passed across the table pulls a full-sized workshop building through the office door, with a banker and tax official watching matter-of-factly. A Dutch notary meeting is interrupted as a tiny share certificate being passed across the table pulls a full-sized workshop building through the office door, with a banker and tax official watching matter-of-factly.
  • Ledger & Tax

EU Transfer Tax Signal Sharpens Dutch Property Share Deals

For Dutch founders, the question is cash, proof and timing before the shares move.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 10, 2026
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  • Ledger & Tax

Exit Tax Security for Substantial Shareholders: What the Belastingdienst’s Woo Disclosure Reveals

TL;DR: The Belastingdienst partially disclosed its approach to security requirements.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
April 8, 2026
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  • Ledger & Tax

The Netherlands Wants to Tax Your Bitcoin Gains Before You Sell. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.

The Netherlands Wants to Tax Your Bitcoin Gains Before You Sell.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
January 22, 2026
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  • Ledger & Tax

When a Criminal Conviction Becomes a Tax Liability: What I Learned from a Dutch Director’s Legal Nightmare

I've spent years watching directors navigate corporate liability in the Netherlands.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
January 20, 2026
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  • Ledger & Tax

When a Below-Market Sale Becomes VAT Abuse: What the Advocate General’s Opinion Means for Related-Party Transactions

A managing director buys a company car at half its market.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
January 20, 2026
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  • Ledger & Tax

I Thought My BV Protected Me. Then I Learned About the Two-Week Rule.

I Thought My BV Protected Me. Then I Learned About the Two-Week.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
January 8, 2026
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