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Starting your business

Amendments for all entrepreneurs

Yet to come into effect (5)

Conditions for business succession scheme BOR will change

Effective date: 1 January 2025 and 1 January 2026

Are you getting a business as an inheritance or gift? The conditions for the business succession scheme (BOR) have changed. With the BOR, you pay less or no inheritance tax or gift tax. Change from 1...

Business succession and transfer schemes BOR and DSR only for a minimum stake of ordinary shares

Effective date: withdrawn

PLease note: this proposed change in law is cancelled. It has been withdrawn in December 2025 (pdf, in Dutch). Do you inherit, or are you given, shares in a company? Or do you transfer shares in a...

Difference between professional partnership and general partnership will cease to exist

Effective date: not yet known

Do you want to start a company together with colleagues? There will be new rules for partnerships. Right now there are 3 types of partnerships: professional partnership (maatschap) general partnership...

Social entrepreneurship to get more recognition

Effective date: not yet known

Does your company have a social or societal goal? Regulations and playing field for businesses with a social goal are set to be improved. Social enterprsies can get a societal status in the form of a...

Better protection of employees in case of bankruptcy and restart

Effective date: not yet known

Are you going to petition for bankruptcy for your business, and will you make a restart? If so, new rules will apply. The Transfer of Undertakings in Liquidation Act (Wet overgang van onderneming in...

Already in effect (0)

There are no amendments

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