Annual adjustment of salary criterion for highly skilled migrants and administrative charges 2019
The salary criterion for highly skilled migrants is contained in the Foreign Nationals Employment Act Implementation Decree (Besluit uitvoering Wet arbeid vreemdelingen). This also stipulates that salaries are to be adjusted annually with effect from January 1 on the basis of recent index figures for negotiated wages, as published by Statistics Netherlands.
Amendment of VAT policy statement: broader application of asset management exemption
On November 2, 2021, the updated Specific State Supervision Policy Statement of the Deputy Minister of Finance was published. The updating of the original policy statement was necessary due to Supreme Court case law, which entailed a broader interpretation of specific state supervision than that in the earlier policy statement.
VAT policy statement on specific state supervision of investment funds
On April 1, 2019, the Deputy Minister of Finance (hereinafter: Deputy Minister) published the Specific State Supervision Policy Statement, effective April 2, 2019. In this policy statement the Deputy Minister elaborates on the qualification ‘specific state supervision’, which the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter: CJEU) imposed as one of the conditions for applying the VAT exemption for the management of special investment funds (Article 135(1)(g) EU VAT Directive).
Draft decree on transitional tax rules in the case of no-deal Brexit
On March 8, 2019, the Deputy Minister of Finance sent a draft decree with transitional tax rules in connection with Brexit to the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament. The draft decree must provide for transitional rules with regard to a number of (elements of) Dutch tax laws in the event of a withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) without a withdrawal agreement (no-deal Brexit).