The Netherlands proposes changes to dividend withholding tax
On May 16, 2017 the Deputy Minister of Finance announced the draft bill on the ‘Withholding obligation for holding cooperatives and expansion of the withholding exemption Act’ was opened for public consultation. The document proposes to align the Dutch dividend withholding tax treatment of Dutch holding cooperatives with that of private limited liability companies (BVs)/ public limited companies (NVs) and to expand the scope of the exemption from Dutch dividend withholding tax to apply to active business structures.