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On this page you find rules and regulations in relation to maintaining 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.
- Accounts
If you have a business in the Netherlands, you are legally obliged to keep accounts and to retain them for seven ...
- Administrative charges
If you purchase a service or product from a municipal or a provincial authority, you normally have to pay ...
- Automatic issuing of a permit (government decision deadline exceeded)
If you apply for a permit in the Netherlands, the authorities have to take a decision by a set deadline. If the ...
- Business correspondence
In the Netherlands, you are obliged to state your commercial name and commercial register number from the Chamber ...
- Business File
If you operate a business in the Netherlands, you must comply with Dutch government rules and regulations. For this ...
- Commercial telephony: corporate numbers and paid/free information numbers
You must apply to the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie ...
- eRecognition
eRecognition (eHerkenning) is a digital service for businesses listed in the Trade Register of the Dutch Chamber of ...
- Filing annual accounts
Depending on the legal form of your business, you must file your annual accounts every year with the Dutch Chamber ...
- Invoice requirements
Your invoices must satisfy a number of statutory requirements. You must state a number of basic details on all ...
- Protection of personal data
The Dutch Data Protection Act (Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens) states that you must handle the personal data of ...
- Reproduction rights
If you own a company in the Netherlands and you make copies of copyrighted works, your business must pay a fixed ...
- Retrieving government information
Dutch government information is always public. This information can be obtained in different ways. You can, for ...
- Statistics Netherlands (CBS) surveys
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) may ask your business to fill in a questionnaire as part of the compiling and ...
- Submitting tax returns
Every business person in the Netherlands must submit returns regularly for one or more taxation types. The Tax and ...
- Television image use licence
If you have a company in the Netherlands and you show television images that can be watched by employees or guests, ...
- VAT number and turnover tax number
If you set up a business in the Netherlands, you must have it included in the Trade Register of the Chamber of ...
