Netherlands: VAT changes starting in 2025

Here are the changes to VAT starting January 1st, 2025.

  • Increase of the VAT rate to 21% for certain agricultural products: non-food cereals and legumes, potato plants for fruit and vegetable cultivation, livestock and poultry offal, beetroot roots, agricultural and horticultural seeds, round wood, straw, animal feed, flax, and wool.
  • Cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific, educational, or entertainment services, if provided virtually, must be taxed in the country where the client resides or is established.
  • End of the so-called margin scheme for resellers of antiques, art objects or collectibles.

Other changes introduced by the 2025 Finance Act are still to come.

 

Official info: https: //www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/berichten/nieuws/wijzigingen-btw-2025

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