Linda Pavan What the Hell Happens When You Liquidate Your BV and Think the Taxman Will Feel Sorry for You? A Sobering Truth for Micro and Small Business Owners Let me start with a hard fact, no dressing it up: if you’re the proud owner of a micro or small business structured with a holding and an operation... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX 11 Jul 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Eco-Friendly Doesn’t Mean Large Budget The Green Illusion: When Ethics Meets Economics Let me begin with a confession. Years ago, when I first decided to “go green” with one of my companies, I did what many CEOs do: I called a sustainabili... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE 10 Jul 2025 WISE
Linda Pavan From CEO to Con Artist: How One Man Turned His BV into a Personal ATM and a Mortgage Scam Machine CASE REFERENCE Judgment: Amsterdam Court, Criminal Division Date: June 19, 2025 Case numbers: 81/034780-22 (A) and 81/159304-24 (B) ECLI: NL:RBAMS:2025:4117 Penalty: €10,000 fine (or 85 days in prison... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX THIRD PARTY RISK 10 Jul 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Why the Dutch Housing Market Is Faking Its Comeback (and We’re All Falling for It) The House Always Wins, But Who’s Keeping Score? Imagine you're standing in front of a brand-new home. Clean lines, solar panels, a smart thermostat that talks to your fridge. €504,000, and climbing. I... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE 10 Jul 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan The Illusion of Control in Informal Workflows There was a time, early in my career, when I believed I had everything under control. My calendar was color-coded. My team was aligned. My inbox was… tolerable. But I had a blind spot. A seductive one... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE 9 Jul 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Why Dutch Companies Are Hoarding Billions Instead of Building the Future A Curious Abundance: The €14.5 Billion Question Imagine sitting on a mountain of profit, more than you’ve ever seen before, €162.5 billion, to be precise. That’s what Dutch non-financial corporations ... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan 9 Jul 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan What Happens When Your €1,000 Holding Fee Gets Called Out for What It Really Is? THE MYTH OF THE €1,000 MANAGEMENT FEE For years, many small entrepreneurs in the Netherlands have operated through a structure that seemed clever on paper: a holding BV (owned personally) invoices a m... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX 9 Jul 2025 LINDA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Kindness Is Not Compliance There’s a silent confusion I’ve encountered in boardrooms, Zoom calls, and coffee-stained policy documents: a strange assumption that kindness is a form of compliance . That by being nice, smiling in ... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE 8 Jul 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Why “Normal” Inflation Is the Biggest Lie You’re Being Sold in 2025 The Morning After the Storm If inflation were a guest at our breakfast table, June 2025 served us lukewarm coffee, not cold enough to call it deflation, not hot enough to scald us like 2022 did. A 3.1... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan 8 Jul 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Your Supply Chain Reflects Your Integrity Why Your Supply Chain is a Mirror, Not Just a Mechanism Every entrepreneur I’ve ever respected eventually learns this: your company’s integrity doesn’t just live in your mission statement or in the co... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE 7 Jul 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Why the Government Keeps Hiring and What It’s Quietly Preparing For. There Are No Numbers Without Intent. When we say that in 2024 the Dutch government employed over 1.1 million FTEs, we are not simply citing statistics. We are revealing a strategic shift in the archit... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan 7 Jul 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Linda Pavan What the Taxman Won’t Tell You When You Move Abroad as an Entrepreneur Let me tell you a story. A few years ago, a client, let’s call him Marco, called me from Portugal. He had just bought a villa on a hill, was sipping vinho verde, and wanted to “wrap things up in the N... ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX 4 Jul 2025 LINDA PAVAN