December 2016

New salary requirements and administrative charges highly skilled migrants/ICT – 2017

2016-12-29T15:05:13+01:0029 December 2016|General|

The salary requirements for highly skilled migrants, European Blue Card holders and Intra Corporate Transferees (ICT - see our 22 November NewsFlash - https://www.limes-int.nl/eu-richtlijn-intra-corporate-transferees-ict/) for 2017 are: Highly skilled migrants/ICT of 30 years and older: EUR 4,324 gross per month excl. holiday allowance. Highly skilled migrants/ICT younger than 30 years: [...]

Annual review 30% ruling salary requirement (2016)

2016-12-19T08:10:36+01:0019 December 2016|General|

To qualify for the 30% ruling employees must have specific expertise. This condition is fulfilled if the taxable salary during the term of the arrangement -i.e. continuously- exceeds the minimum salary criterion. For 2016, the taxable salary must be more than EUR 36,889 and more than EUR 28,041 for employees [...]

November 2016

EU regulation Intra-Corporate Transferees (ICT)

2016-11-22T16:07:30+01:0022 November 2016|General|

As of November 29, 2016 the Netherlands will implement the European ICT Directive re. entry and residence of third country residents who will work for a group company within the EU, while they remain under contract with the group outside the EU. Moreover, once the ICT license has been issued [...]

New interpretation 183-days rule

2016-11-14T08:42:51+01:0014 November 2016|General|

If an employee exercises his employment abroad, most double tax treaties allocate the right to tax the income related thereto to the work state if the employee’s presence in the work state exceeds 183 days per year. According to the Dutch court of appeal (Den Bosch), however, the days spent [...]

Subsidy on international tax consultancy

2016-11-04T07:46:14+01:004 November 2016|General|

Dutch enterprises that will undertake cross border business activities may qualify for a subsidy for assistance from an international lawyer or tax advisor. The subsidy amounts to 50% of the consultancy costs with a maximum of EUR 2,500 (ex VAT). See attached a link for the conditions and application procedure: [...]

October 2016

Expansion rules to shift wage withholding tax obligation

2016-10-31T10:25:14+01:0031 October 2016|General|

If an employee is being assigned to a Dutch entity of an international group, then the foreign group company should be the withholding agent for Dutch payroll taxes. Upon request, however, the Dutch part of the group may act as the withholding agent (‘verleggingsregeling’). In the budget 2017 it is [...]

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