Linda Pavan 2027: The End of Fossil Company Cars—Or the Beginning of Governance by Consequence There are moments when tax policy quietly becomes civilisational commentary. The Dutch cabinet’s recent climate package contains one such moment. Hidden in the technical folds of fiscal reform is a cl... Linda Pavan TAX May 15, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan May 14, 2025 – Amsterdam Stock Exchange: A Day of Composed Confidence Today, the Amsterdam stock exchange didn’t shout—it nodded. The AEX Index closed at 929.24 , registering a modest +0.19% rise. No fireworks. No crashes. Just the steady hum of a machine adjusting its ... Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE May 14, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan When the River Recedes: What the Decline in Dutch Freelancers Really Reveals A Crack in the Mirror of Freedom For over a decade, freelancing in the Netherlands has been painted as a path to liberation. You were your own boss. You set your own rates. You worked from beach cafés... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 14, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan The New VAT Directive: When the Border is Not a Line, But a Question of Trust There’s a reason VAT isn’t just a tax. It’s a behavioral contract—a fingerprint of how responsibility travels across borders. With the Council’s adoption of Directive 8570/25 on 8 May 2025, the Europe... Linda Pavan TAX May 14, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan When the Ports Blink: What Rotterdam’s Decline and Antwerp’s Rise Reveal About Europe’s Trade Future You can hear it in the silence between shipping horns. Rotterdam, the titan of Europe’s logistics lifeblood, is blinking. Not collapsing—let’s not romanticize decline—but showing the unmistakable symp... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 13, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan The Privilege Paradox: Can Confidentiality Survive the Fight Against Financial Crime? XTROVERSO PERSPECTIVE: WHEN PRINCIPLES COLLIDE, STRUCTURE MUST SPEAK At the intersection of law, ethics, and power lies one of the most complex dilemmas of our time: Can Legal Professional Privilege (... COMPLIANCE ES IT Linda Pavan NL May 13, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan When the Jobs Don’t Come Back: Reading the Labour Market Drift of Q1 2025 When Silence Becomes a Signal We often talk about “confidence” as if it were a mood—fleeting, reactive, psychological. But confidence is infrastructure. It is the unseen scaffolding that holds a marke... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 12, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan Spring Memorandum 2025: The Fog of Reform in a Season of Fatigue The Spring That Forgot to Bloom Imagine standing in a field just after winter. You expect growth, color, air. Instead, you find dry earth, last year’s dust, and a government holding a watering can fil... Linda Pavan TAX May 12, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan The Netherlands and the Wealth Illusion: Why Fourth Place Isn’t Victory—Yet INTRODUCTION: THE GOLDEN MIRROR When Statistics Netherlands (CBS) published the 2024 GDP per capita rankings, the headline looked like a national medal: “The Netherlands ranks fourth in the EU, with €... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 11, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan A Bully Always Wants More The Beast at the Border: Why Digital Sovereignty Begins with Saying No You can put a necktie on a wolf. It’s still a predator. And the scent of weakness only sharpens its hunger. In boardrooms and pol... Paolo Maria Pavan WISE May 10, 2025 WISE
Linda Pavan Excessive Borrowing Act: When Compliance Replaces Understanding Purpose or Panic? The Excessive Borrowing Act (Wet excessief lenen bij eigen BV) was not born in a vacuum. It emerged from a legitimate concern: director-major shareholders (DGAs) who borrow millions ... COMPLIANCE ES IT Linda Pavan NL May 10, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Confidence Falls Again It starts with a silence Not a crash. Not a panic. Just a quiet hesitation. A business owner delays a new hire. Another puts off a technology investment. A builder pauses before committing to a long-t... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan May 9, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
