Practical writing for founders trying to do tax right, not for SEO crawlers. Written by the working tax advisors and accountants on our team — Amsterdam, London, Bengaluru.
The Dutch Innovation Box drops your corporate income tax on qualifying R&D profits from 25.8% to 9%. It's one of the most generous tax incentives in the EU and one of the most underused — half the startups we onboard could be claiming it and aren't. Here's the working version.
The Dutch parliament shrank the ruling from 30% to a tiered 30/20/10% — then partially walked it back. Who still qualifies, what the new salary floor is, and how to onboard your next international hire correctly.
If you're building anything that touches money in the EU — payments, crypto, lending, embedded finance — three regulations have shifted under your feet in the last 18 months. A field guide.
Y Combinator's SAFE is the default. Convertible notes are how it was done before. Priced rounds are how grown-ups raise. Each is taxed differently in the Netherlands — and one of them comes with a nasty surprise. A side-by-side.
If you incorporate as a single working-company BV and exit five years later, the Dutch tax authority takes 26.9% of your gains. With a Holding-BV above it, you can defer almost indefinitely. Here's when to set one up — and the one mistake that wastes the structure.