Linda Pavan Dutch Court Slams Tax Office for Double VAT Fine, What Small Business Owners Must Know Q: If I get two fines from the Tax Office for the same VAT mistake, do I really have to pay both? " No. A Dutch court just ruled that you can’t be fined twice for the same thing. In this case, the Tax... AUDIO COURT RULING ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 29, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Linda Pavan Dutch Tax Authority Confirms: Your VAT Audit Stays a Black Box Q: Why does it feel like the tax office knows everything about me, but I know nothing about them? " Because that’s how the system works. You have to show all your numbers, but the Belastingdienst does... AUDIO ES IT Knowledge Group NL TAX Aug 27, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Linda Pavan “Substantial Economic Activity”: What It Really Means for Small Entrepreneurs in the Netherlands Q: I have a small business registered at the Chamber of Commerce, but I don’t really have an office or staff. Is that a problem? " Yes, it could be. The tax office now looks at whether your company is... AUDIO ES IT Knowledge Group Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 25, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Netherlands Housing Market, July 2025: Prices Rise 8.6% Year-on-Year Q: Are we back in a housing bubble like before? "Not exactly. Prices are rising again,up 8.6% in July compared to last year, but this isn’t the wild 20% jumps we saw in 2021–2022. Back then it was fre... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE Aug 22, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Investments Rise in June, But Who Is Really Investing? June 2025 brought us a headline that looks good at first sight: investments in tangible fixed assets were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, according to CBS. A figure that makes us breathe a lit... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 20, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan STAK for Small Business Succession Why Small Business Owners Need to Rethink the Way They Pass On Their Companies For many small business owners, the idea of passing the torch, whether to children or trusted partners, comes with a daun... AUDIO ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 18, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Job Market Q2 2025: Fewer Moves, More Caution Three hundred and five thousand. (305.000) That’s the number of employees who changed employers in the second quarter of 2025. It sounds big,until you notice that, three years earlier, the same figure... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 15, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan Enjoyment Moment Bonus Plans, A Trap in Disguise for Small Business Owners Why This Matters to Micro and Small Business Owners In the Netherlands, we often think of bonus schemes as a motivational tool: “If my team hits targets, they get an extra.” But the recently clarified... AUDIO ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 14, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan June’s Dutch Export Numbers: A Modest Rise Amid Germany’s Industrial Slowdown Exports Up, Germany Down: Reading Between the Lines Statistics Netherlands tells us that in June, the volume of Dutch goods exports, adjusted for working days, was up 1.8% compared to June 2024. Machi... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 14, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan July’s Dutch Business Numbers: The Calm, the Churn, and the Illusion of Growth In July 2025, 299 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s 109 fewer than the same month in 2024 , a 27% drop, and 4% fewer than in June. At first glance, this is the kind of number... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 13, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Inflation Cools to 2.9% in July 2025 When I look at the July 2025 inflation figure, 2.9% year-on-year, down from 3.1% in June,I don’t just see a number. I see a pulse. A soft beat in the economic bloodstream telling us the patient,our ma... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 12, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes Numbers are often treated like weather forecasts,glanced at, maybe discussed, then forgotten. But behind each percentage point, there is a story about how we live, choose, adapt, and sometimes contrad... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 11, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN