How it works
A DGA and their BV often pay for each other. For example, the DGA pays a supplier with a private card, or the BV pays a private phone bill. These amounts are booked on the current account. At the end of the year, you can see from the balance who owes whom.
A small balance in either direction is fine. If the DGA owes the BV more and more, the balance is a loan from the BV to the DGA. For that loan, you need a written agreement and a market interest rate. For a large loan, you also need security. The tax authority checks this in every audit.
The interest the DGA pays is income for the BV. Interest the DGA fails to pay is treated as a hidden dividend. Under the excessive borrowing rule, loans from the BV above a total of €500,000 are taxed as dividend in box 2.
Many DGAs settle the current account once a year, with salary, a dividend or a repayment. The balance is then small, and an audit takes less time.
Example
During the year the BV paid €9,000 of private expenses for the DGA, and the DGA paid €3,000 of company costs privately. The DGA now owes the BV €6,000. The DGA repays it in December from the dividend the BV pays that month.
The figures
Every rate for 2026 is listed in Netherlands tax rates 2026, and the figures for 2027 are in Netherlands tax rates 2027.
Questions people ask
Which interest rate applies?
A rate an independent lender would ask for the same loan and the same security. For an unsecured current account that is a few percent above the market rate for secured loans.
Can the BV lend money to the DGA for a house?
Yes. A mortgage loan from your own BV with a market rate and a registered mortgage is common. The interest is deductible in box 1 under the normal rules and taxed in the BV.
Holdwise, Hoofddorp. We keep this definition in line with our Dutch and German glossaries, and the figures are those for the tax year 2026. Updated 30 September 2026.
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