Will the Netherlands become a new tax haven?

By their conclusions, European experts offer businessmen to pay their attention on such a perspective country like Netherlands. Due to recent events on Cyprus and the current unfavorable situation for businessmen, the problem with offshores is not solved.

So what do the Netherlands offer? Give Holland a status of a low-tax jurisdiction is not possible: the corporate tax rate is 20% if the company's profit for a year does not exceed € 200,000, and 25% for income over € 200,000 (previously 25.5%). Nevertheless, the country has a favorable tax regime, supported by a large number of agreements about the double taxation avoidance. It allows to create holding structures that are beneficial tool for optimizing tax revenues. With proper preparation of business structure it is possible to optimize the taxation of your holding company.

Based on: http://www.dutchnews.nl/

Expert’s opinion

For real, the headlines are full of reports that the whole international community has declared the war against the offshore territories. In this regard, many businessmen are thinking about the transferring their business to a more respectable European jurisdiction. In fact, the Netherlands attracts attention as a jurisdiction, which allows you to structure the taxation of companies correctly. Particularly, it is possible to build a conduct of their business through a bunch between the company in the Netherlands and a company in Luxembourg. In this case, it is possible to minimize the corporate tax to 5%. This is an extremely reliable and robust scheme of doing business, for those who are ready to bear the costs for registration and maintenance of the company. The opening of and operation of companies in European jurisdictions will also help to solve the problem with opening an account in a bank, because today, not all of the banks are working with offshore jurisdictions.

Mikhno Alexandra ( Lawyer of Honest & Bright )