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…
Deducting business expenses – the what, when and how
As an entrepreneur, you pay tax over the profit you make via the income tax return. Your profit is the sum of the sales you’ve made minus your business expenses. This means it’s wise to include these expenses in your accounting. In this blog we’ll explain which expenses are deductible and how this procedure works….
“I like stories that make you wonder: Wow, did this really happen?” – Lex Boon
Lex Boon works as a freelance journalist for, among others, Amsterdam-based newspaper Het Parool. He’s also building a reputation for himself as a writer of non-fiction stories that have proven to be real page turners (De Diepvriesman, 2014; Ananas, 2019 & Mr. Kaor Yamamoto, 2020). By asking questions with an almost childlike curiosity, Lex manages…
“I’d never thought I would import tortillas” – Let de Jong
For a long time, Let de Jong (46) worked as a concept developer and designer. But she always had a great passion for food as well. She took a year off, threw herself into Mexican cuisine and came up with Let’s Salsa. Natural, flavoursome and pure sauces that go well with a tasty quesadilla or…
“The dream is to be able to make a living from my art” – Linsey Ladru
Linsey Ladru is a part time make-up artist – for commercials as well as more extravagant work for popular festivals. While she mainly works as part of a team in the make-up world, she also exchanges the bustle of Amsterdam for the calmness of the Veluwe every now and then. There, she has her own…
Selling products to customers in the UK
As a result of Brexit, from 1 January 2021, there will no longer be any free movement of goods between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (UK). When you do business with the UK these days, the VAT legislation for a country outside the EU applies. As a seller you also have to pay VAT…
“Work with people who are doing something you believe in” – Kim Lewis
Kim Lewis (1982) is a communication designer who creates campaigns, stories and digital products. He works mainly for social and cultural organizations. He worked with campaign agency BKB on the government campaign ‘Alleen samen krijgen we corona onder controle’ (Together we’ll get corona under control). He prefers to get involved in projects from the very…
What you should know about box 3
When your business is doing well, you may begin to build up wealth. The tax authorities distinguish several types of income. For the tax authorities property income is covered by box 3. So which types of assets are included in box 3 and what are the tax rules? Firstly, it is good to know that…
