For at least the last decade, governments throughout Europe have been interested in creating new tax incentives for the arts. Tax incentives for films have spread all over Europe, the French example of payment of inheritance tax with works of art has been followed by many European countries and...

The paper gives an overview of the Dutch tax incentives for the arts and discusses the drawbacks of tax incentives. The paper also examines how tax incentives can be designed to increase the involvement of the public with the arts, while minimising the drawbacks of using tax law for funding the arts

Paper for the Rust Conference July 2013 ‘Trends and Players in Tax Policy' organized by Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law Vienna WU Global Tax Policy Center together with the Research Council of Norway. It discusses trends in tax policy in the Netherlands as from 2000 (personal...

Based on a case study, answers are given on several questions regarding taxation and cross border charitable giving from a Dutch persective. This paper was written for the 2012 EATLP conference in Rotterdam

In the Netherlands, special tax incentives apply for so called ‘public benefit pursuing entities' (hereinafter PBEs). Currently, the Dutch tax authorities have registered 50.000 PBEs. The main criterion is not whether the activities or the entities are not for profit, but whether these...

One of the strategic goals defined in Lisbon in 2000 was to enhance innovation in the EU. The economic rationale for this government interference is a perceived market failure in the market for R&D activities. The idea is that without government interference the amount of R&D activities will be...

This paper discusses the Netherlands statutory General Anti Avoidance Rule (GAAR), richtige heffing and the GAAR which was developed in case law: fraus legis. It also discusses the relation with special anti avoidance rules and with tax treaties and EU law. Finally the paper discusses...

Paper prepared for the 2015 European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP) congress. This paper will be included in R. Seer, Surcharges and Penalties in Tax Law, IBFD (expected publication in 2016). The paper discusses tax penalties and surcharges in the Netherlands. It gives an overview of...

For a long time, married women were treated differently from married men in the Dutch personal income tax Act (PITA). The PITA reflected the political, religious and legal situation, but at the same time was often behind on developments in those areas. Currently, there is a strong pressure in...