All sole proprietors can shield address in Business Register

What has changed?

Are you a sole proprietor? Are you a self-employed professional (zzp’er)? You can hide your business address in the Business Register. To do so you must register an alternative postal address, for instance a P.O. Box. Your business address can then only be viewed by organisations that are legally permitted to do so. For example, the Netherlands Tax Administration, lawyers, and bailiffs.

Decentralised political public office holders

Decentralised political public officeholders and their partners/domestic partners with their own businesses can also shield their visiting address in the Business Register.

Telephone numbers already shielded

KVK already shields telephone numbers of entrepreneurs who are registered in the Business Register (in Dutch).

For whom?

• sole proprietors

When?

This change in the Business Register decree (Handelsregisterbesluit) has taken effect on 1 October 2025.