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Are you confronted with an investigation by the Dutch tax authorities? Our tax attorneys-at-law know the ins and outs of tax audits, can provide you with information and, where necessary, maintain contacts with the tax authorities.
Our tax lawyers can provide assistance on various taxation topics. Examples include the tax penalty and foreign assets.
Our tax lawyers have extensive experience in providing compliance advice to accounting and tax consultancy firms. For example, they regularly handle complaints and claims for these organizations. They also provide in-house trainings.
Our tax lawyers can help you if you are dealing with the FIOD (Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Unit).
You may be surprised by the FIOD during a raid or search. In most cases our clients are first offenders. They often do not have any experience in this area and are therefore almost never prepared. That is why the assistance of a specialized lawyer can be urgent.
Whether you are being interviewed by the FIOD as a witness or suspect, it is wise to find out what your rights and obligations are. As a suspect, you can choose to 1) invoke the right to remain silent or 2) make a statement. As a witness, you also have a choice. This choice often has to be made under time pressure.
After the raid/search or interrogation has taken place, there will come a stage in which the FIOD's findings must be studied. It is important to assess your position in order to develop a strategy. The FIOD-file can be extensive. Our lawyers are adept at handling complex cases, including tracing financial flows, analysing invoice movements, and assessing tax structures.
The Tax Authorities regularly conduct project-based investigations into assets or income not declared in tax returns. Currently, the tax office is investigating real estate in Dubai. How can you recognize such an investigation? The inspector will send you a letter with questions regarding real estate in Dubai.
In the FIOD investigations in which VDB Advocaten is involved, the focus is on criminal offenses of a fiscal or financial nature. Examples include money laundering, forgery, or intentionally filing an incorrect tax return. Commonly, this is also referred to as "fraud" or "tax fraud."
The FIOD contacts you and demands digital and/or written data. In this blog Debbie Liem highlights an important point of attention.
The tax authority has announced its intention to start enforcing rules on false self-employment by 2025. This means that employers working with freelancers, while the tax authority considers it an employment relationship, may be required to pay wage tax.
FIOD Raid? Or have you been approached by the FIOD in another way? If contact with the FIOD comes unexpectedly, read these 5 guidlines. Within one minute, you will know what to do.
