HomepageStarting or buying a business
On this page you find rules and regulations in relation to establishing or taking over a business in the Netherlands. You must have your business included in the Trade Register of the Chamber of Commerce (KvK), for example, and you will have to contend with issues relating to turnover tax and income tax. You will sometimes also be eligible for certain subsidy schemes, financing schemes and tax allowances.
- Accounts
If you have a business in the Netherlands, you are legally obliged to keep accounts and to retain them for seven ...
- Acoustic report
When starting your company or when changing your business activities the local or provincial authorities can ask you ...
- All-in-one Permit for Physical Aspects (omgevingsvergunning)
If your company is based in the Netherlands and your work involves construction or alterations to structures, listed ...
- 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 insurance and personal insurance
In the Netherlands, you are not obliged to insure against any risks that you run as a result of having a company. ...
- Certificate of good conduct for legal entities (VOGrp)
Companies in the Netherlands can use a certificate of good conduct for legal entities (Verklaring omtrent het gedrag ...
- Commercial telephony: corporate numbers and paid/free information numbers
You must apply to the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie ...
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Corporate social responsibility or CSR (Maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen, MVO) means that you take into ...
- Declaration of Independent Contractor Status (VAR)
If you work in the Netherlands as an independent worker without employees (zzp’er) or a freelance worker, your ...
- Entrepreneurial students and student grants and loans
If you have your own business as a student and you receive student grants and loans from DUO - IB-group, your ...
- Environmental permit or notification of environmental management
Businesses in the Netherlands have to deal with environmental regulations concerning such issues as noise, energy, ...
- Industry board or product board
Industry boards and product boards promote the collective interests of companies in a particular sector. They ...
- Legal form
New businesses in the Netherlands have to make a choice from a number of legal forms. Your choice will be the legal ...
- Notification of mergers, takeovers and joint ventures
If your business is active on the Dutch market, it is subject to the provisions of the Dutch Competition Act ...
- Pension funds
In the Netherlands, you are sometimes required to participate in a sectoral pension fund, including if you are ...
- Professional qualifications
You do not require a separate qualification to establish a business in the Netherlands. However, you are only ...
- Registering a domain name
If you want to start a website in the Netherlands, you must first choose a domain name (Internet address). You ...
- Registration in the Trade Register
If you set up a business in the Netherlands, you must have it included in the Trade Register of the Chamber of ...
- Registration with the Tax and Customs Administration
If you set up or take over a business in the Netherlands, you must register with the Tax and Customs ...
- Self-employed workers without employees
A self-employed person without employees (known in Dutch as a zzp'er) is an entrepreneur who does not employ ...
- Staying in the Netherlands
If you intend to stay in the Netherlands for some time or permanently for your business, you must fulfil a number of ...
- Storing hazardous substances
In the Netherlands, the storage of hazardous substances is subject to strict regulations. In certain cases, an ...
- Structural vision and zoning plan
In a structural vision, municipal and provincial authorities outline potential spatial planning developments. A ...
- Trade name (company name)
If you set up a company in the Netherlands, you must devise a trade name (company name). This name must meet the ...
- Underage business owners
Minors can only perform legal acts in the Netherlands (such as making a purchase or borrowing money) if they have ...
- UWV voluntary insurances
If you start a company in the Netherlands, you may be eligible for a voluntary insurance at the Institute for ...
- 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 ...
- Work permit for self-employed workers
If you run a business in the Netherlands and intend to outsource work to a self-employed worker abroad, or if you ...
