The Family Office in the Netherlands: The Complete 2026 Guide
A Dutch family office is less an institution than an architecture: a holding pooling the wealth, a certification foundation steering it, a governanc…
Set Up a Single-Family Office: Entity, Team and Mandate
A single-family office is three decisions dressed as an institution: the entity that holds, the team that runs, and the mandate that binds. Made del…
Family-Office Regulation in the Netherlands: What the Supervisor Expects
The comfortable truth first: a genuine single-family office — own wealth, own family, own risk — operates outside financial licensing. T…
The Share-Certification Foundation (STAK) Explained for Families
One notarial afternoon separates what most families struggle to separate: control and value. The certification foundation (STAK) holds and votes the…
The Dutch Foundation (Stichting) and Asset Protection: The Honest Picture
Asset protection deserves honesty more than any topic on this site: the stichting is a genuinely strong separation instrument — and it protect…
The Dutch Mutual Fund Vehicle (FGR) for Family Investments
When three family branches invest together, a contract can beat a company: the fund for joint account (fonds voor gemene rekening, FGR) pools capita…
Estate Planning for International Families Based in the Netherlands
An international family plans succession across three rulebooks at once: which country’s law governs the estate, which countries tax it, and w…
Business Succession Relief (BOR): Pass the Company On with 100% Relief up to €1.53M
The business-succession relief (bedrijfsopvolgingsregeling, BOR) is the crown jewel of Dutch family-business law: gift or inherit the company with 1…
Philanthropy Through a Dutch Public-Benefit Organisation (ANBI)
Dutch philanthropy runs through one elegant status: the public-benefit organisation (algemeen nut beogende instelling, ANBI). Gifts in are deductibl…
Structuring an Art Collection: Ownership, Lending and Legacy
Art rewards structural honesty: the genuine private collection enjoys one of the friendliest regimes in Dutch tax, the trading portfolio is a busine…
Classic-Car Collections in a BV: Ownership, Insurance and Use
The classic-car question arrives in every founder conversation eventually: garage them privately or drive them through the BV? The honest answer fol…
The Private-Equity Holding in the Netherlands: Deals, Carry and Exits
Private-equity practice discovered the Dutch holding decades ago and never left: stakes from 5% pool exempt, exits land clean, management rollovers…
Search Funds in the Netherlands: Buy a Company, Build a Legacy
The Netherlands is quietly perfect search-fund country: a generation of family businesses seeking successors, financing that understands cash-flow d…
A Dutch Real-Estate Portfolio in a BV: Transfer Tax, Financing, Exit
A property portfolio at scale belongs in corporate solution: net rents taxed at 19% to €200,000 with interest fully deductible within the stand…
Box 3 Today and the Move to Actual Returns: Plan Your Investment Mix
Box 3 is mid-metamorphosis: today a 36% levy on deemed returns above €59,357 per person, tomorrow — the legislator’s stated course…
Director Salary and Borrowing up to €500,000 from Your Own BV: The Smart Combination
One combination outperforms every other founder lever in the Dutch system: agree a lower customary salary in writing with the tax administration for…
A Second Home in the Netherlands: Private or Through Your BV
The second home is the structuring question every successful founder eventually asks — and the honest answer runs against instinct: private ow…
The Relocation Map: Every Professional You Need, in Order
A wealthy family’s relocation employs eight professions for one season — and the families who arrive calm simply engaged them in the rig…
Private and Business Banking Onboarding for Wealthy Newcomers
Wealthy newcomers meet Dutch banking twice: the business accounts that must work in weeks, and the private-banking relationship that rewards patienc…
Retiring to the Netherlands with a Business Legacy: The Plan
The founder’s retirement is a design question rather than a date: the holding becomes the pension engine, distributions replace salary on your…
Marriage Terms and Your BV: Keep Business and Family Clear
Dutch marriage law changed its default in 2018 — community of property now covers what is built during the marriage — and founders who r…
The Emigration Tax Checklist for Wealthy Families Moving In
Every wealthy relocation runs the same tax checklist — and the boxes reward being ticked in order. The list, from the origin-country exit file…
The Holding as Your Family Bank: Lending, Investing, Teaching
The most useful bank a family will ever own is the one it already has: the holding. It lends to the founder within the €500,000 room, finances…
Next-Generation Governance: Prepare Heirs for Ownership
Wealth transfers in an afternoon; ownership takes a decade to teach. The families who manage both run governance as an apprenticeship — certif…
Residency Routes for Wealthy Families: The 2026 Overview
The Netherlands runs on activity rather than golden visas: residence follows what you do — run a company, hold EU rights, join family. For wea…
From Residence to Dutch Citizenship: The Realistic Timeline
Dutch citizenship runs on a clock every family can read: five years of qualifying residence, integration proven, application decided within a year.…
Cross-Border Gifts to Children: The Treaty-Smart Way
A gift that crosses a border answers to two systems at once — and international families who map the pair once turn gifting into a quiet yearl…
Life-Insurance Wrappers and Dutch Tax: What Still Works
Arriving families often bring a life-insurance wrapper — the Luxembourg or Liechtenstein policy holding a portfolio — and ask what Dutch…
Liquidity Events in the Holding: Dividends, Buybacks and Timing
The holding’s superpower is when: profits pooled exempt wait for the owner’s calendar, and cash leaves through three doors — divid…
Wealth Questions Answered: The 50 Things Founders’ Families Ask
Every founder family asks versions of the same fifty questions. This hub answers the greatest hits in one screen each — and hands you the deep…
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