Holdwise Youngtimer Calculator · status 5 September 2026

What does your youngtimer cost per month, in 2026 and in 2027?

A Dutch company car of 16 years or older is taxed on 35% of its market value, not on the list price. Enter a Dutch licence plate, or choose from 148 popular youngtimers, and see what it costs you net per month, and what each path the government can choose for 2027 means. The decision comes on Budget Day, 15 September; the final figures are here that afternoon.

Short answer A youngtimer is a company car of 16 years or older (in 2026: model year 2010 or older). The taxable benefit is 35% of the market value, instead of 25% of the list price. Only the market value counts. Source: Dutch tax office (Belastingdienst), checked on 5 September 2026.

Holdwise Youngtimer Calculator: what your car costs in 2026 and 2027

Status 5 September 2026. The decision on 2027 comes on Budget Day, 15 September.
The Dutch vehicle authority (RDW) gives the date of first registration, make and model and the original list price. No Dutch plate, or still to buy? Choose your car below.
Car not in the list? Choose “I fill it in myself”. The calculator works for any car.
2. When was the car first registered?
The date of first registration is on the registration certificate. Do not know the month? Leave January.
3. What was the list price, and what is the car worth now?
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List price then (the Dutch catalogue value, including VAT and the car tax called bpm)
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Value now (the market value: what a buyer pays today)
Choose a car from the list and we fill in guide prices. Change them as you like.
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The taxable benefit comes on top of this income, and you pay tax on it. If you earn little or nothing, the tax on the benefit is low or even zero, because of the Dutch tax credits. The calculator works it out with the 2026 rates.
5. Two questions about the company
Did you already drive this car through the company in 2025?
Is the car on the company before 1 January 2027?
From 2027 the BV pays an employer levy of 12% on the list price of every petrol or diesel car that is also driven privately. If the car is on the company before 2027, that levy only starts in 2031.
6. Three more things
Do you drive it through a BV, or as a sole trader?
Do you drive less than 500 kilometres per year privately?
Fuel
Enter a Dutch licence plate and the RDW sets the fuel for you.
In 2026 this car costs you, net,
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per month
And in 2027? That depends on what the government chooses
Year by year
YearYoungtimer?Taxable benefit per yearYou, net per monthThe BV pays
How you pay this, and when
All together, per year
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You get the calculation with the link in it, so you can find it later. On 15 September the final figures are on this page.
What the rule saves you
Compare with a new company car
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List price of that new car
This calculator gives a first picture. The real taxable benefit depends on the date on the registration certificate and a valuation of the market value.

How the sum works

A company car that you also drive privately gives a taxable benefit: an amount that is added to your income, on which you pay income tax. For a normal car it is 22% of the list price (25% for cars from before 2017). For a youngtimer, 16 years or older, the tax office takes 35% of what the car is worth now. Because a luxury car of sixteen years is worth a fraction of its list price, the benefit is low.

Example: Mercedes S 500 from 2009As a youngtimerWithout the rule
BaseMarket value €17,000List price €135,000
Taxable benefit per year35% = €5,95025% = €33,750
Net per month at 49.5%€245€1,392

Market value: how you set it

The market value is what a buyer pays today for your car. Look at the asking prices of the same model and year (the calculator gives the links), take a few percent off, and have a valuation report made. That report is your proof in an audit. Without it the inspector can choose a value himself.

What the calculator does with a Dutch licence plate

The RDW is the Dutch authority that keeps all licence plates, and its data is public. From your plate the calculator takes the date of first registration (which decides from which month your car qualifies), the make and model, and the list price then. The calculator only uses that list price for two lines: what you pay if the car drops out of the rule, and the employer levy of the BV. For the taxable benefit itself only the market value counts.

2027: the five paths

The current law says: from 2027 only cars of 25 years and older. Parliament asked for a softer transition and the government has worked out four other paths. The calculator shows all five. In Dutch: the list of 148 luxury youngtimers is on Beste youngtimer 2027, and the rule itself on De youngtimerregeling in 2027. For expats with a Dutch BV: the benefit is added to your salary as director; how that salary works is on the director salary in 2026.

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