Your salary, your dividend, your tax
Rates 2026. The written advice is for your own situation.
1. Where do you live?
2. Where do you do the work for the BV?
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What you really spend. The rest can stay in the company.
5. Is the company still building, investing, or making a loss?
In a growth phase a lower salary can be agreed with the tax office, in writing and in advance.
6. Dutch withholding on your dividend under the treaty with your country
Private person: usually 15%. Not sure? Leave 15% and ask us.
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The Dutch tax is credited, so the money is taxed once. Leave 0 to skip.
Result
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Three things to know
- Salary is the expensive euro. Up to 49.5% tax, plus the health contribution. Profit that stays in the company pays 19%. Keep the salary at the level that fits and take the rest only when you need it.
- A lower salary is a request, not a decision you make alone. In writing, before the year starts, with the reason: building, investing, or a loss. We write that request as part of the setup.
- Need more privately than the salary gives? You may borrow from your own BV, up to €500,000, with a loan agreement and a normal interest rate.
Rates 2026: income tax 35.75% up to €38,883, 37.56% up to €78,426, 49.5% above, with the general tax credit and the labour tax credit; health contribution 4.85%; corporate tax 19% up to €200,000 and 25.8% above; box 2 24.5% up to €68,843 and 31% above. A first picture; the treaty for your country and your own country's rules decide the rest.