Linda Pavan Dutch Entrepreneurs Beware: The Tax Office Can Deny Your Depreciation, Even If the Building Isn’t Theirs! The Case You Didn’t See Coming Imagine this: you're the proud owner of a micro-entrepreneurial BV. You rent a facility from your local municipality, say, a swimming pool building and you invest in mak... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 8, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Policies: Not Optional, Just Overdue One rainy Thursday in Amersfoort, I walked into a café run by a brilliant Ethiopian woman named Hana. Her espresso was perfect. Her books, chaotic. When I asked how she handled staff absences, she sai... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 7, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan When the Barometer Rises, but the Compass Stays Uncertain There’s a peculiar kind of optimism in the Dutch business climate this quarter, one that doesn’t quite celebrate, but doesn’t retreat either. Like the moment a sailor notes the wind shifting after wee... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 7, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan Is Your BV About to Get Burned? What the Tax Office Just Revealed About Dividend Tricks Will Hit Small Business Owners Next Why This Matters to You On July 22, 2025, the Dutch Tax Authority (Belastingdienst) issued its formal response to a public access request filed under the Wet open overheid (Woo,Open Government Act). T... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 7, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Gossip, Loyalty & Micro-Company Decay A few years ago, I walked into a 12-person startup in Utrecht for what was supposed to be a financial audit. Instead, I found a funeral. Not a real one, something quieter, more insidious. There were n... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 6, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan When a Whisper Becomes a Warning: What Dutch Industrial Prices Are Telling Us There’s a peculiar sound in the Dutch economy lately, not a crash, not a siren, but something softer: the rustle of industrial prices sliding just a little, again. In June 2025, industrial sales price... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 6, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan No Strategy, No Records, No Chance: How a Dutch SME Owner Lost Her Company to Her Own Sloppiness A Case You Can Learn From (or Repeat): €1.5 Million in Tourist Tax Let’s begin with the basics. Between 2014 and 2021, a private limited company (X B.V.) was assessed over €1.5 million in tourist tax ... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 6, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan The Hidden Footprint of Remote Teams In early 2021, I visited an old friend, a self-proclaimed digital nomad running a remote-first consultancy from his renovated farmhouse in Drenthe. We sipped coffee by a wood stove while he explained ... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 5, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Netherlands, July 2025: Inflation at 2.9%, But What Does Your Wallet Say? Let me begin with a story. In the Dutch summer of 2022, a friend of mine, a precision-driven restaurant owner in Amsterdam, told me something that struck harder than any macroeconomic report: "Paolo, ... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 5, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan Dutch Entrepreneurs Beware: Your Holding Company Might Be a Tax Trap (And the Supreme Court Just Confirmed It) When courts speak, entrepreneurs should listen, not to fear them, but to understand the rules of the game they’ve chosen to play. On July 18, 2025 , the Dutch Supreme Court confirmed two rulings that ... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 5, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Founder Burnout = Governance Breakdown In 2017, I met the owner of a small restaurant in Rotterdam, Mediterranean kitchen, fiftyseats, full most nights. His name was Karim. The food was honest, the reviews glowing, the staff loyal. But tha... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 4, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Retail’s Quiet Roar: What 3.3% in June Really Tells Us Not All Growth Is Equal,And Not All Decline Is A Crisis When the Dutch retail sector reports a 3.3% increase in turnover for June 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, many instinctively raise a gl... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 4, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN