On November 8, 2018, the groundbreaking judgment that the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam had rendered on the VAT exemption for the management of special investment funds (SIFs), was published. ...
On December 4, 2018, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the EU (ECOFIN) held an exchange of views on the digital services tax, but failed to reach an agreement on a compromise text tabled b ...
The change to the zero VAT rate for the delivery and provisioning of seagoing vessels and the performance of services to seagoing vessels had already been announced in the 2018 Tax Plan and was origin ...
On October 18, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) delivered its judgment in the Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Limited case (C-153/17). The CJEU ruled that in the case of a ...
On October 17, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter: CJEU) rendered judgment in the Ryanair case (C-249/17). The case concerned the Irish airline Ryanair, which had incurred c ...
On October 3, 2018, the Opinion issued by the Advocate General (‘AG’) to the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) in the Morgan Stanley & Co International plc (‘Morgan Stanley’) case (c ...
On Friday, June 29, 2018, the Cabinet approved the Labor Market Improved Equilibrium Act (‘Wet arbeidsmarkt in balans’; WAB). Under this Act, sector-specific unemployment contributions will be replace ...
On Friday June 22, 2018, the Supreme Court rendered judgment as to whether a severance package should be regarded as an early retirement scheme ('regeling voor vervroegde uittreding', hereinafter: RVU ...
The 30% ruling is a form of tax relief for employees coming to the Netherlands who are recruited from abroad and who possess specific expertise that is not present or is scarce in the Dutch labor mark ...
The 30% ruling is a fixed allowance paid to compensate for the costs of a temporary stay outside the country of origin (extraterritorial expenses). Since January 1, 2012 only employees who reside ...
We recently informed you about the request for a preliminary ruling in the Ryanair case (C-249-17). That case, pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter: CJEU), conce ...
