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Choosing a business structure

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  • Which legal structure suits your company?
  • Business structures in the Netherlands: overview
  • Sole trader or sole proprietorship
  • General partnership (vof)
  • Professional partnership (maatschap)
  • Limited partnership (CV)
  • Private limited company (bv) in the Netherlands
  • Public limited company (NV)
  • Association
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  • Cooperative
  • Legal personality
  • Trust office foundation (STAK)
  • The holding company
  • Changing your business structure
  • Converting your sole proprietorship to a bv
  • Foreign entities and branches
  • Using a foreign legal structure in the Netherlands
  • European business structures
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Starting your business

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  • Various starting points
  • Taking over an existing business

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