I try to make some calculation of my expected income taxes for 2025.
But holy fuck. When diving deeper into the Dutch tax system, I realize that it's really really absurdly complex. I will make some thread.
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First of all; We have 3 "tax-boxes" in the Netherlands.
1 - Income till € 38.441 - 35,82%
2 - Income € 38.441 till € 76.817 - 37,48%
3 - Income from € 76.817 49,50%
For example when you earn €50000
They calculate like; Your first 38.441 euro's will get taxed in box 1. Then the next €11559 will get taxed in box 2.
First step of the complex Dutch Tax system. But there is more.
More info about this step;
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/belastingdienst/prive/inkomstenbelasting/heffingskortingen_boxen_tarieven/boxen_en_tarieven/box_1/box_1
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But in the Netherlands we have "Tax" discounts! Run to your local tax service to get this discount! (No jokes, everyone gets the discount!).
Let's start with the first;
"Algemene heffingskorting 2025". This one is for everybody that is earning income from work (or renting a house?).
For this discount there are also 3 boxes to get in.
But in this discount you just get the discount for the box you fall in.
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For the "algemene heffingskorting" you have this;
Only this seems ridiculous. But there is more... Freelancers have more discounts in more awesome ways! Next post in this thread incoming....
Info:
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/belastingdienst/prive/inkomstenbelasting/heffingskortingen_boxen_tarieven/heffingskortingen/algemene_heffingskorting/tabel-algemene-heffingskorting-2025
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Then dive into business/freelance tax-discounts! Yeah, more discounts!
Then you got "MKB-Winstvrijstelling" if we didn't have enough "vrijstellingen".
This seems pretty easy; Just take your profit, calculate 12.7% of that and you can subtract that from your profit.
But.... If you earn more then €76.817 you get less discount. At this point I don't understand much from it all, I'm not a finance-guy. But AFAI understand you then only get 12.02% discount.
Info;
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/aftrek-en-kortingen/content/afbouw-tarief-aftrekposten-bij-hoog-inkomen
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One of last ones I will dive into is "Zelfstandigenaftrek" aka "Independent discount".
If you have some company (freelance for example) and make more then 1225 hours a year on that company (billable and all other work-related stuff), you can subtract €2.470 from your taxable income.
If you're also a "starter" (started a company in last 5 years, an you can use this discount coupon 3 times) you can subtract another €2.123 from your taxable income.
Info:
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/belastingdienst/zakelijk/winst/inkomstenbelasting/inkomstenbelasting_voor_ondernemers/ondernemersaftrek/zelfstandigenaftrek1/zelfstandigenaftrek
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Here is where I stopped diving into this absurd tax-system.
But we have things like "sub-tractable gifts, mortgage interest subtraction, work-with-subtraction" and this list goes on and on...
And I didn't even talked about all the "subsidy"'s (Tax money you can ask for for 101 reasons. For example your amazing high rent).
But my conclusion is; This tax system is broken. And I will have to pay too much tax, even after all the "discounts" without coupons...
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@robertvanlienden I just pay an accountant.
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@derickr Ofcourse this is a valid option 😄. But I have some bookholding-software and doing your income tax is relative easy, as long as I don't need a accountant I just do it myself.
But this is the first time I've dived deep inside our tax system. Just because I find it interesting. And I was just shocked about all the sorts of tax-discounts that exists in the Netherlands.
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@robertvanlienden It wasn't that complicated when I still lived there, I think. There is a lot less of that in the UK.
I was surprised by the rates of the normal income tax bands. They are way higher than here.
Our boxes are:
Up to £12,570 0%
£12,571 to £50,270 20%
£50,271 to £125,140 40%
over £125,140 45%
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@derickr Here they are higher, but because of all the "discounts" I think they are not that higher? Depending on the discounts you can apply to.
Our tax system is (unnecessary) complicated because of all the discounts and the ways you can get "subsidy" on everything you can think off.
Rentsubsidy, childsubsidy, etc. etc.
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