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Filing your VAT return online There are several ways of doing this: you can login at Mijn Belastingdienst Zakelijk on the Tax and Customs Administration website (Dutch only). If you login as a legal entity, you need eHerkenning to do so; you can also file your return using software applications from commercial parties.

The Netherlands has introduced this reverse charge on supplies of goods and services located in The Netherlands. Where a non-established supplier supplies goods or provides services located in the Netherlands to a VAT registered and established customer, domestic reverse charge applies.

The Dutch VAT number is called “BTW-identificatienummer” or short “BTW-nummer”. The number consists of the country code “NL” which is followed by 12 character. These can be digits and letters. The symbols + and * can be parts of the VAT number as well.

If you have a business or a permanent site in the Netherlands and you purchase goods or services from another EU country, you usually need to pay Value Added Tax (VAT or omzetbelasting, in Dutch) in the Netherlands regarding these purchases.

There are 3 VAT tariffs in the Netherlands: 0% tariff. 9% tariff. 21% tariff.

Filing your VAT return online There are several ways of doing this: you can login at Mijn Belastingdienst Zakelijk on the Tax and Customs Administration website (Dutch only). If you login as a legal entity, you need eHerkenning to do so; you can also file your return using software applications from commercial parties.

What is a BTW-nummer or BTW-id? The BTW-nummer is the VAT, or turnover tax number. You need it for filing your VAT return and paying VAT in the Netherlands.

VAT, Value Added Tax (Belasting Toegevoegde Waarde, BTW in Dutch), is a tax that is levied on the value added by an entrepreneur to a product or service. Every entrepreneur has to charge this BTW on its sales and remit it to the Dutch tax administration (Belastingdienst).