Working from home: which costs are deductible?
Over the past years, many self-employed individuals have worked from home. There are strict rules about whether the costs you’ve made during this period can be regarded as business costs and thus added to your administration. The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration has set a very clear framework when it comes to deducting housing costs….
Boy Hulsteijn – “I enjoy working for companies that make the world a better place”
Boy Hulsteijn is a textbook example of the fact that schooling doesn’t have to determine your further career. Without any relevant education or work experience, Boy started working as a copywriting intern at a small influencer agency. Seven years later, his CV is overflowing with copywriting jobs for clients such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, HEMA,…
Miriam Bakker – “You need to train the ability to make decisions based on emotions”
Miriam Bakker is a certified Marie Kondo consultant and coach and she’s an expert in tidying overstuffed households by ‘decluttering’. Using Marie Kondo’s philosophy, she helps her customers find peace in their homes and in their minds. “Tidying up is not the same as storing away”. What is it that most people do wrong now?“Due…
How to write a correct invoice
As an entrepreneur, you send invoices to your customers for the services or products you provide. The looks of these invoices aren’t really of any importance, but there are some things that must always be included. In this blog, you can read how you create a legally valid invoice and when you should send it….
“I talk about how I experience society” – Roziena Salihu
Roziena Salihu is always looking for the right words for the right moment. With her spoken word art, stories and poems, she tours the Dutch theaters. She also uses her words to make film, television and theater performances. “I think it would be really cool to write and direct a feature film.” Why is it…
“I try to work with my hands as much as possible” – Bastiaan de Nennie
In 2015, Bastiaan de Nennie graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. And then he just started creating. With his 3D printed artworks, that embrace both the physical and digital world, he and his Phygital Studio are not only making a name for themselves in the art world, but also in the office industry. At…
“We can now research things that previously seemed impossible” – Laurens Vreekamp
Laurens Vreekamp is specialized in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He was a teacher at Hogeschool Utrecht for eight years, worked for well-known Dutch media companies and broadcasters, and did research for Google at their News Lab. In 2020, he founded his own academy: Future Journalism Today. Through various workshops and courses, Laurens prepares “storytellers,…
What is the Healthcare Insurance Premium (ZvW)?
If you’ve filed your income tax return as an entrepreneur before, you will undoubtedly have come across the term Healthcare Insurance Premium, or ZvW in Dutch. Every year, you pay your ZvW contribution to the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration, in addition to your income tax. But what exactly is this premium and why do…
“It really is all up to yourself” – Jordy Vonk
Jordy Vonk is one of the Netherlands’ most successful windsurfers, and therefore also one of the most successful entrepreneurial Dutch windsurfers. After all, being able to make a living out of your passion isn’t possible without creating the conditions to do so yourself. And that requires hard work, there really is a lot more to…
