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Key changes for foreign investors due to Dutch Fund Decree 2025
Effective 1 January 2025, the Netherlands has overhauled the tax-classification rules for foreign entities by introducing new laws and decrees. These revisions markedly affect both Dutch and foreign investment funds. […]
Performing valuations for taxation purposes; process, methods and certainty
Introduction Valuations play a crucial role in the realm of taxation, enabling tax authorities, companies and individuals to determine the value of a company, an asset or a liability. Valuations […]
Government makes share-based compensation more tax-attractive for startups
The Dutch government is working on a tax reform that will allow startups to reward their employees more favourably with shares or stock options. This decision follows intense lobbying from […]
The Netherlands announces tax treaty agenda for 2025
The Dutch Ministry of Finance has published its tax treaty negotiation agenda for 2025, providing insights into recently finalized, ongoing, and upcoming treaty negotiations. This annual update serves to inform […]
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The ATAD general anti-avoidance rule in the Netherlands
The Dutch legislator decided not to implement the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (“GAAR”) of the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (“ATAD”) and to rely on the court developed fraus legis doctrine. As there are several […]
Economic Analysis and Impact Assessment of the Pillar 1 & 2 Proposals
On 13 February 2020, the OECD published a (first) economic analysis / impact assessment of the (combined) Pillar 1 & 2 proposals). Background The OECD recently published the proposals for […]
OECD releases Transfer Pricing Guidance on Financial Transactions
On February 11, 2020 the OECD released the highly anticipated report “Transfer Pricing Guidance on Financial Transactions” (“the report”), which deals with the follow-up work in relation to Actions 8-10 […]
Abuse of Law under EU Directives – Derivatives & Financial Instruments, 2019 (Volume 21), No. 6
In this article the authors Frederik Mulder and Yves Cattel discuss the ruling of the European Court of Justice in the so-called “Danish cases” (T Danmark – Case C-116/16 and […]
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