What you can outsource
You can outsource the processing work. This includes the bookings, the payroll, the VAT and wage tax filings, and drafting the annual accounts and the corporate tax return. If you deliver complete and correct documents, a good bookkeeper files on time, according to the compliance calendar.
What stays with the board
- The administration duty itself: the books must be correct and available for seven years, also when someone else keeps them.
- Signing and deciding: the board signs returns, accounts and resolutions.
- The registers: the trade register (KVK), the UBO register and the shareholder register are updated on the board’s instruction.
- Decisions: the adviser prepares the amount you can pay as dividend, the salary levels and the choices about the structure. You decide.
Each year, every Dutch BV files the same set of documents. These are the VAT returns, the corporate tax return, the annual accounts at the KVK and the UBO check. We do all of it for you. See corporate secretarial services in the Netherlands.
The bookkeeping can be handed over while you live abroad. On bookkeeping in the Netherlands you can read what you send, what is filed for you and what you get back.
The agreement with your bookkeeper
Agree in writing who sends which documents and when, who files, who watches the deadlines and who reports corrections such as the suppletie. Make sure the board has access to the live administration, so it can meet its duty. With this access, you can also switch providers more easily later.