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Orientation visa for highly educated persons
Leave schemes
Netherlands Chamber of Commerce
Filing your income tax return in the Netherlands
Using and verifying VAT numbers
How to make your business sustainable
Learn what you can and must do
Coming to the Netherlands
Permits and visa
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Identity documents and qualifications
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Living in the Netherlands
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Information for employers
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Residence permit for foreign startups
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Starting your business
Checklists for starting a business
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Registering your business
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Choosing a business structure
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Starting a business in the Netherlands
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Running your business
Business taxes
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VAT
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Staff
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International business
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Business location
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Insurance
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Legal matters
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Financing your business
Funding and loans
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Tax schemes and benefits
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Subsidies
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Financing your business in the Netherlands
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Sector-specific
Hospitality
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Retail and wholesale
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Construction
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Transport
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Financial services
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Ending your business
Closing down your business
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Financial problems and bankruptcy
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Selling or transferring your business
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Current
Warning for scam
Fake website
A fake website called Dutch Registry is trying to steal your money by pretending to sell official Dutch Business Register products. Read more.
TEK and other measures
Energy prices: support for entrepreneurs
How does the Dutch government help entrepreneurs deal with the soaring energy costs? Find out about the price cap, TEK and other measures.
Q2 2023 report
Business Survey Netherlands (COEN)
The Business Survey Netherlands (Conjunctuurenquête Nederland, COEN) maps out the most important developments in the economic climate for Dutch entrepreneurs. Click here for the results of Q4 2022.
Direct links
In-class training
Qredits Business school for statushouders
Qredits offers training for statushouders that want to start a business in the Netherlands. Free of charge. You learn the what, how, and when in class over a 3-month period. A coach will help you. Click here for more information and to
register.
Join our research community
Your business in the Netherlands
Do you want to tell us how to do our job? Sign up for our research community. Read more.
Start-up information
Finding a facilitator
Want to launch an innovative start-up? One of the conditions of the start-up residence permit is that you work together with a business mentor: a facilitator. Click for a list of recognised
facilitators.
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Information
Which taxes do you have to pay?
Businesses have to pay taxes in the Netherlands: VAT, income tax, corporate tax, municipal taxes. Find out which taxes you have to pay.
KVK
Search the Business Register
Find out how to access the Dutch Business Register (Handelsregister) at the KVK website.
Webinars
Video content on Business.gov.nl
Thinking of coming to the Netherlands and starting a business? Business.gov.nl offers webinars on starting and financing. Check them out.