Before you can employ staff, you must register as an employer with the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration. You will then receive a payroll tax number, which you will need for, inter alia, submitting payroll tax returns. As a foreign company in the Netherlands, you are obliged to register as an employer and deduct payroll tax from your employees’ wages if:
- Your company has its registered office in the Netherlands
- You have a permanent establishment in the Netherlands
- You post or second personnel in or to the Netherlands
- Your employee works on the Dutch continental shelf
- Your employee falls under the national insurance schemes of the Netherlands
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