Tag: Netherlands

  • Why Rockstars Protect Assets in the Netherlands

    Why Rockstars Protect Assets in the Netherlands

    Rockstars may protect their assets in the Netherlands for several reasons, including favorable tax laws, a stable political and economic environment, and a robust legal system that offers strong protection of intellectual property rights. The Netherlands has a favorable tax regime for businesses and individuals, including a competitive corporate tax rate, no withholding tax on…

  • What Puerto Rico Tells Us About Global Trade

    Trade in tax often trumps trade in tasks. The United States compiles data about Puerto Rico’s trade with the world. The largest supplier of imports to Puerto Rico? Ireland. The second largest? Singapore. Tax trumps gravity, it seems. Incidentally, Switzerland jumped into third place in the 2016 league table, leaping past other exporters of chemicals and Puerto…

  • The Netherlands is world’s biggest conduit to offshore tax havens

    [box]The Netherlands is the biggest conduit to offshore tax havens in the world, with almost a quarter of fiscal constructions having a Dutch link, according to researchers at a specialist unit at the University of Amsterdam.[/box] ‘Only five big countries act as conduit-OFCs,’ the researchers from Corpnet said in a new report. ‘Together these five…

  • Foreign Companies Invest in the Netherlands at Record Rate in 2014

    NEW YORK, March 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Netherlands reported record levels of capital investment by foreign companies in 2014, spurred by an attractive business climate. The Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) assisted in the attraction of 187 new foreign investment projects, representing nearly $3.5 billion in planned investment and the creation of 6,304 new…