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Your first year with a Dutch company

Ten short lessons about everything your company arranges in its first year: your bookkeeping, the VAT return, corporate income tax, the annual accounts and every deadline. Each lesson has a short answer, the explanation and a link to the knowledge base.

Included free with your incorporation through Holdwise. The lessons are open to everyone.
  1. 1What to arrange right after incorporationYour Dutch BV is incorporated. Here is what you arrange right after: the VAT number, eHerkenning, a business bank account, the shareholders’ register and your salary.
  2. 2Invoices and bookkeepingWhat goes on every invoice of your BV, what you keep and how you keep your bookkeeping up to date in ten minutes a week.
  3. 3The quarterly VAT returnHow the VAT return of your BV works: the rates, the four deadlines each year, the return itself and correcting a mistake.
  4. 4Cross-border VAT and the EC Sales ListSelling to businesses in other EU countries: 0% VAT or VAT reverse charged, what goes on the invoice and how the EC Sales List works.
  5. 5Your salary as director and the 30% rulingThe customary salary of the director-major shareholder, a lower salary in the growth phase, the monthly payroll tax return and the 30% ruling.
  6. 6Corporate income taxHow corporate income tax works for your BV: the rates, the provisional assessment, the tax return and the place where the board makes decisions.
  7. 7The annual accounts and filing them with the KVKPreparing, adopting and filing: the deadlines for the annual accounts of your BV and what a small BV files.
  8. 8Paying out dividendPaying out dividend from your BV: the decision, the balance sheet test and the distribution test, dividend tax and the tax for the shareholder.
  9. 9Reporting changes, including the UBO registerWhich changes your BV reports to the KVK, when, and how the UBO register works.
  10. 10The yearly calendar with every deadlineAll fixed dates of your BV on one page: monthly, quarterly, yearly and when something happens.

All amounts on this page are the figures of 2026.

After your first year

The Holdwise Academy has 126 modules in six routes, from your first client to your holding company. You also get the Assistant for your own questions. 7 days free, then €39 a month.

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