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In this Tax Alert, we address recent case law relating to VAT.

On Tuesday 17 September 2024 (Budget Day; Prinsjesdag) the Dutch Ministry of Finance published the 2025 Tax Package (Pakket Belastingplan) including the 2025 Tax Plan (Belastingplan) and the 2025 Other Tax Measures (Overige Fiscale Maatregelen).

Commercial leases can be long and detailed documents. Although parties typically negotiate some specific clauses, such as the lease term, the rent, the repair scheme, etc., they do not always pay enough attention to the clauses relating to insurance.

Michael Molenaars, Jeroen Smits, Reinout de Boer and Rogier van der Struijk contributed to Chambers: Corporate Tax 2024 in a chapter about Law and Practice in the Netherlands.

On Thursday 16 May 2024, the four political parties (forming the new Dutch government) which have been negotiating for the past several months came to an agreement (Hoofdlijnenakkoord 2024) in which their plans and policies are laid down.

On 23 May 2024, the Luxembourg Minister of Finance presented a new draft law to Parliament, packed with notable tax provisions.

As of 1 January 2025, Dutch insurers must obtain the Dutch Central Bank’s prior consent before making any amendments to, or entering into an asset-intensive reinsurance agreement that allows the reinsurer to hold assets in a third country.

On 13 November, the Dutch government published a decree on the comparison of foreign entities which provides a framework for the tax classification of foreign entities as either transparent or non-transparent for Dutch tax purposes.

On 25 July 2024, the European Commission initiated an infringement procedure against the Netherlands by sending a letter of formal notice.