Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Manufacturing in Q2 2025: What the Numbers Don’t Tell You Every quarter, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) releases its figures. We see percentages, decimals, neat columns: “turnover down 0.7 percent, industrial sales prices down 0.6 percent.” A small shift, almo... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 19, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan Silent Conversion Denied: Tax Ruling Limits Options for Small Business Owners in the Netherlands The Case in Brief The recent ruling (KG:212:2025:4) clarifies an important limitation in the Dutch Income Tax Act 2001. The situation unfolded as follows: 2018 : X enters a general partnership (vof) a... ES IT Knowledge Group Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 19, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan You Are Part of a Watershed, Not a Bubble I once visited a region in the Netherlands where the land had a history of flooding. The fields carried silent scars of water that had overflown its boundaries, seeping into homes, gardens, and roads.... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 18, 2025 WISE
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
Linda Pavan What Entrepreneurs Must Learn from the Northern Fraud Chamber’s Judgment On 7 August 2025, the Court of North Netherlands (Northern Fraud Chamber, Groningen) delivered a judgment that should be a wake-up call for every entrepreneur in the country. The case, spanning briber... COURT RULING ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 18, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan When “No” Disappears in Business The Room Without Walls Years ago, I visited a small family business in Friesland. Everyone was smiling. Every idea was “brilliant,” every request “no problem.” It felt warm,until you noticed the invoi... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 15, 2025 WISE
Linda Pavan Virtual Shares: A Hidden Tax Trap for Small Business Owners Why You Should Care If you are a Dutch entrepreneur running a micro or small company, you may have considered offering “virtual shares” or “phantom shares” to reward loyal employees without giving awa... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 15, 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 EU Court Judgment Closes a Tax Loophole. Why Dutch Entrepreneurs Should Pay Attention On 1 August 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a decision that might look like a technical skirmish between Italy’s regional tax system and an EU directive on parent–subsidiary ta... COURT RULING ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX Aug 15, 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Speak to Your Team Like Clients A Tale of Two Conversations Last week, I overheard two calls in the same office. The first: a client on the line. The manager’s tone was warm, patient, precise, every word weighed like gold. The secon... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 14, 2025 WISE
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
