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Administrative and accounting records

You are required to maintain administrative and accounting records in accordance with statutory provisions. You must also handle the personal data of customers with due care. Your company’s administrative and accounting records must fulfil a number of obligations, including stating your trade name and trade register number.

Below is an overview of the rules and regulations, subsidies and taxes in relation to the topic “Administrative and accounting records”.

  1. Accounts

    If you have a business in the Netherlands, you are legally obliged to keep accounts and to retain them for seven ...

  2. Administrative charges

    If you purchase a service or product from a municipal or a provincial authority, you normally have to pay administrative ...

  3. Business correspondence and invoices

    In the Netherlands, your business correspondence must satisfy various statutory requirements. You are obliged to ...

  4. Debt collection agencies and bailiffs

    If your customer does not pay or if you do not pay your customers, you may have to deal with debt collection agencies ...

  5. Filing annual accounts

    Depending on the legal form of your business, you must file your annual accounts every year with the Dutch Chamber ...

  6. Insurance

    Business owners who live in the Netherlands are obliged to take out health care insurance under the Health Care ...

  7. Personal data, protection

    The Personal Data Protection Act (Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens) states that you must handle the personal data ...

  8. Reproduction rights

    In order to make copies of copyrighted works, your business must pay a fixed annual fee to the Reprographic Reproduction ...

  9. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) surveys, participation in

    Statistics Netherlands (CBS) may ask your business to fill in a questionnaire as part of the compiling and publishing ...

  10. VAT number and turnover tax number

    If you register as a business owner in the Netherlands with the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst), ...

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