Editorial standards: how we research, review and correct our content

Articles, guides and service pages are written by Melvin van Esch, co-founder and Lead Technical Editor at Intercompany Solutions (full bio), together with the consultants who actually run the engagements we describe: BV incorporation, VAT and corporate income tax filings, employment contracts, 30% ruling applications and CAO application. Every article names its author; we do not publish under a house byline.

Payroll and staffing content is written with Joost Hubregtse, Director of ICS Staffing & Payroll (full bio), drawing on live client files rather than generic summaries.

The reviewer is always a different person from the writer. No figure-bearing page is published on a single pair of eyes.

Legal review. All blog posts touching employment or company law are reviewed and fact-checked by Zishan Hussain, our labour law lawyer, before publication and again whenever the underlying rules change. You can verify his registration in the register of the Netherlands Bar (NOvA) via zoekeenadvocaat.nl.

Numbers review. Tax, payroll and cost figures are independently re-checked by our director, Alex Stokvis (full bio), as a second control separate from the legal review.

Nothing on this site is published on the strength of an AI draft alone. Where a language model is used, typically to translate an English article into Dutch, the output carries the same named-author and second-reviewer requirement as the original, and the article’s byline block discloses that AI assisted the translation. Rules, rates and deadlines are always verified by a human against the primary source before publication.

We state rules only from primary sources:

• Legislation: the statute itself on wetten.overheid.nl and the Staatsblad
• Tax and the 30% ruling: the Belastingdienst
• Company registration: the KVK
• Salary norms and recognised sponsorship: the IND
• Social security and sick leave: the SVB and UWV
• EU rules: EUR-Lex and the Court of Justice of the European Union
• Sector rules: the applicable CAO text itself

Where a point is disputed or settled in court, we cite the jurisprudence itself: published rulings of the Hoge Raad, the gerechtshoven and rechtbanken on rechtspraak.nl, decisions of the Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak of the Raad van State, disciplinary rulings on tuchtrecht.overheid.nl, and judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, always as a deep link to the individual judgment identified by its ECLI or CELEX number. We never cite a search page or the home page of a case law database as a source.

Secondary commentary, including Big 4 and law firm publications, may orient a reader; it is never the source of a stated rule. When a rule follows from a bill that has not yet passed, we say so explicitly and describe the law currently in force alongside it.

Every page carrying tax figures, salary norms or legal deadlines shows a visible “Written by · Reviewed by · Last reviewed” block. These pages are re-checked at least every six months, and immediately after Prinsjesdag, the Belastingplan, and any IND or CAO indexation.

Figures that are indexed annually are labelled with the year they apply to. Indicative calculations are marked as indicative and can deviate by plus or minus 5% depending on the facts of a case.

If you find an error, email [email protected]. We correct confirmed factual errors as soon as they are verified and update the last reviewed date. Substantive corrections are noted in the article itself, never silently edited away.

We show a credential only when we can point you to the register that proves it:

• International Bar Association: membership verifiable via the IBA member directory.
• Netherlands Chamber of Commerce: ICS Advisory & Finance B.V., registration number 71469710 (ICS Formations B.V. is the separate incorporation entity), verifiable in the KVK register.

If a badge appears anywhere on this site without a register link, tell us. We will add the link or remove the badge.

Intercompany Solutions sells company formation, accounting, tax and payroll services, so our content is commercial in intent. That does not change the factual standard: we do not overstate our own certifications, and where a service is delivered through a partner, we say so on the page.

Nothing on this site is legal or tax advice for a specific case. It describes general Dutch rules; your situation is assessed individually before we quote or contract.