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Chapter II

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Corporate Income Tax Act 1969 (Wet op de vennootschapsbelasting 1969) · Articles: 97

Section 2.1

Belastbaar bedrag

7 Article 7

With regard to domestic taxpayers, the tax shall be levied on the taxable amount.

Section 2.2

Algemene artikelen inzake bepaling van de winst

8 Article 8

Profit shall be construed and determined in accordance with Articles 3.8, 3.11 and 3.12, 3.13, paragraph 1, points (g), (h) and (i), 3.14, paragraph…

8a Article 8a

The profit does not include the amount by which the dividend tax to be remitted has been reduced pursuant to Article 11, paragraph 1, of the Dividend…

8b Article 8b

If an entity, directly or indirectly, participates in the management of, the supervision of, or the capital of another entity, and conditions are…

8ba Article 8ba

For the application of Articles 8bb, 8bc, 8bd and 35, the following definitions apply:

8bb Article 8bb

In determining the profit, a downward adjustment of the profit in respect of a mutual legal relationship between the taxpayer and an entity…

8bc Article 8bc

If the taxpayer acquires an asset, other than a debt, from an entity related to him during the year, and the transfer price determined in accordance…

8bd Article 8bd

If the taxpayer acquires an asset, other than a debt, during the year from an entity related to him by means of a capital contribution, profit…

8c Article 8c

In determining the profit, the following shall be left out of consideration, insofar as they are received from or paid to bodies or natural persons…

8d Article 8d

In determining the profit, subsidies as referred to in Article 57, paragraph 1, of the Housing Act (Woningwet), received by associations and…

8e Article 8e

In determining the profit of an entity as referred to in Article 2, paragraph 1, opening words and point (g), or paragraph 2, or Article 3, paragraph…

8f Article 8f

In determining the profit of a private-law legal entity governed by public law, the following benefits shall be excluded:

8g Article 8g

In determining the profit, the following shall be left out of consideration:

9 Article 9

In determining the profit, the following shall also be deducted:

9a Article 9a

In determining the profit, the following shall also be deducted:

10 Article 10

In determining the profit, the following shall not be deductible:

10a Article 10a

In determining the profit, interest – including costs and currency results – in respect of debts owed, either in law or in fact, directly or…

10b Article 10b

If the taxpayer has obtained a loan from an entity with which they are affiliated within the meaning of Article 8b, which has no fixed repayment date…

10c Article 10c

In determining the profit, benefits derived from own shares purchased as a temporary investment and shares in a company that holds an interest of at…

10d Article 10d repealed
11 Article 11

In determining the profit, remuneration awarded to a supervisory director who is a natural person and who holds a substantial interest in the body…

12 Article 12

Bodies designated as cultural institutions, as well as bodies without shareholders or participants that serve a social interest and derive their…

12a Article 12a

If it is plausible that at any time the ultimate interest in the taxpayer has changed to a significant extent, the following rules shall apply…

12abis Article 12abis repealed

Section 2.2a

Hybridemismatches

12aa Article 12aa

In determining the profit, the following shall also not be deductible:

12ab Article 12ab

In determining the profit, compensation, payments, and deemed payments as referred to in Article 12aa, paragraph 1, parts a, b, c, e, and f, by an…

12ac Article 12ac

For the application of this Section and the provisions based thereon, the following definitions shall apply:

12ad Article 12ad

In determining the profit, compensation or payments shall also not be deductible insofar as they, in law or in fact, directly or indirectly by means…

12ae Article 12ae

If a domestic taxpayer is also regarded by another state as a fiscal resident of that state, no deduction of remunerations, payments, charges or…

12af Article 12af

In determining the profit, an amount of doubly taken into account income shall be deducted insofar as in any prior year no deduction was permitted…

12ag Article 12ag

A taxpayer shall include in his records data showing to what extent and in what manner this section applies with regard to a year in respect of a…

Section 2.3

Innovatiebox

12b Article 12b

The qualifying benefits derived from a qualifying intangible asset produced by the taxpayer himself shall, if he so elects in the tax return for a…

12ba Article 12ba

For the purposes of this Section and the provisions based thereon, a qualifying intangible asset shall be understood to mean:

12bb Article 12bb

The qualifying benefits derived from a qualifying intangible asset, as referred to in Article 12b, shall be set at the K/T portion, but no more than…

12bc Article 12bc

The threshold referred to in Article 12bb, paragraph 1, is equal to:

12bd Article 12bd

By way of derogation from Article 12bb, for a taxpayer who has generated a qualifying intangible asset in the year or in one of the two preceding…

12be Article 12be

If in any year it is established, with regard to an intangible asset that has been designated as a qualifying intangible asset by application of…

12bf Article 12bf

Further rules, including further conditions, may be established by or pursuant to an Order in Council for the application of this Section. In this…

12bg Article 12bg

If the taxpayer opts for the application of Article 12b, they shall, in addition to the records to be maintained as referred to in Article 24…

Section 2.4

Groepsrentebox

Section 2.5

Deelnemingen

13 Article 13

In determining the profit, benefits derived from a participation, as well as costs in respect of the acquisition or the alienation of that…

13a Article 13a

The taxpayer who, whether or not jointly with an associated entity, holds an interest of 25% or more in an entity as an investment:

13aa Article 13aa

If the taxpayer derives benefits from investment participations other than qualifying investment participations, a grossed-up amount of those…

13ab Article 13ab

In determining the profit, the benefits derived from a controlled entity shall be taken into account in proportion to time and in proportion to the…

13b Article 13b

If a claim against an entity (debtor) in which the taxpayer or an entity affiliated with him holds a participation has been written down at the…

13ba Article 13ba

If the taxpayer has a claim against an entity (debtor) in which he or a related entity holds a participation, and that claim has been written down…

13bb Article 13bb repealed
13c Article 13c repealed
13ca Article 13ca repealed
13d Article 13d

The participation exemption does not apply to a loss on a participation that manifests itself after the entity in which the taxpayer participates has…

13e Article 13e

If the enterprise of the dissolved entity has been continued in whole or in part by the taxpayer, the liquidation loss calculated pursuant to Article…

13f Article 13f repealed
13g Article 13g repealed
13h Article 13h

If, in determining the profit enjoyed in a year with respect to the taxpayer, a benefit from the alienation of shares or profit-sharing certificates…

13i Article 13i

If the taxpayer alienates shares or profit-sharing certificates that constitute a participation, in the context of a share merger as referred to in…

13j Article 13j

If the assets of a legal entity in which the taxpayer holds a participation are transferred by universal title in the context of a division…

13k Article 13k

If the assets of a legal entity in which the taxpayer holds a participation are transferred by way of a universal succession in the context of a…

13l Article 13l repealed

Section 2.6

Bedrijfsfusie

14 Article 14

The taxpayer who transfers his entire enterprise or an independent part of an enterprise (transferor) to another body that is already subject to tax…

Section 2.7

Splitsing, juridische fusie en bestuurlijke herindeling of herschikking

14a Article 14a

If the assets of a taxpayer are transferred by universal title in the context of a division (the dividing legal entity), then:

14b Article 14b

If the assets of a taxpayer are transferred by universal title in the context of a merger (the disappearing legal entity), the disappearing legal…

14ba Article 14ba

If assets of an enterprise of a municipality, province or water board, or belonging to a ministry (transferring party), are transferred to another…

Section 2.8

Geruisloze terugkeer uit BV

14c Article 14c

If a public limited company or a private limited company with limited liability that has exclusively natural persons as shareholders is dissolved and…

Section 2.9

Fiscale eenheid

15 Article 15

In the event that a taxpayer (parent company) holds the entire legal and economic ownership of at least 95% of the shares in the nominally paid-up…

15a Article 15a

Upon the petition of a central company and its subsidiary companies, and with effect from the year in which the petition is submitted at the…

15aa Article 15aa

For the application of Articles 15ab up to and including 15al, the following definitions apply:

15ab Article 15ab

At the time immediately preceding the time of the inclusion of a subsidiary, the parent company shall record its interest, or, if other subsidiaries…

15ac Article 15ac

In determining the profit of a fiscal unity, for the application of Article 11, bonuses and salaries granted by a subsidiary to persons other than…

15ad Article 15ad repealed
15ae Article 15ae

For the application of Article 20, paragraph 2, the following applies:

15af Article 15af

As from the time of the deconsolidation of a subsidiary, for the application of Article 20, paragraph 2, the following losses shall be set off…

15ag Article 15ag

As from the termination of the fiscal unity with respect to the parent company, for the application of Article 20, paragraph 2, pre-consolidation…

15ah Article 15ah

For the application of Articles 13d, paragraphs twelve and thirteen, 15ab, paragraph two, 15ac, paragraph seven, 15ae, and 15ak, paragraph five, the…

15aha Article 15aha

For the application of Article 15b, paragraph 5, the balances of interest carried forward to the following year (pre-consolidation interest) that…

15ahb Article 15ahb

As from the moment of deconsolidation of a subsidiary, for the application of Article 15b, paragraph 5, the following carried-forward balances of…

15ai Article 15ai

If in any year an asset has been transferred by a company (transferor) to another company (transferee) the fair market value of which at the time of…

15aj Article 15aj

Reinvestment reserves as referred to in Article 3.54 of the Income Tax Act 2001 shall, at the time immediately preceding the deconsolidation time of…

15ak Article 15ak

For the application of Article 25a, paragraph 4, the preliminary levies imposed prior to the time of joining of a company which have been carried…

15al Article 15al

As of the time of deconsolidation of a subsidiary, for the application of Article 25a, paragraph 4, the following preliminary levies shall be set off…

Section 2.9a

Generieke renteaftrekbeperking

15b Article 15b

In determining the profit enjoyed in a year, the balance of interest shall not be deductible insofar as it exceeds the higher of the following…

15ba Article 15ba

If it is plausible that, in comparison with the beginning of the oldest year of which a balance of interest as referred to in Article 15b has not yet…

15bb Article 15bb

The inspector shall determine the amount of the interest balance to be carried forward, as referred to in Article 15b, paragraph 5, by way of a…

15bc Article 15bc

The carried-forward balance of interest that, pursuant to Article 15b, paragraph 5, is deductible in determining the profit of a year, shall be…

Section 2.9b

Minimumkapitaalregel voor banken en verzekeraars

15bd Article 15bd

For the purposes of this Section, the following definitions shall apply:

15be Article 15be

If a taxpayer carries on the business of a bank, the portion of interest in respect of loans that is determined at (10.6-L)/(100-L) shall not be…

15bf Article 15bf

If a taxpayer carries on the business of an insurer, the portion of interest in respect of loans that is determined as (10.6-ER)/(100-ER) shall not…

15bg Article 15bg

In the event that a taxpayer carries on both the business of a bank and the business of an insurer in a year, Article 15be or Article 15bf shall…

15bh Article 15bh

Insofar as, through the application of Article 15b in determining the profit enjoyed in a year, a balance of interest is not deductible, for the…

Section 2.10

Eindafrekening

15c Article 15c

If a taxpayer, for the application of this Act or a treaty for the avoidance of double taxation or the Tax Regulation for the Kingdom, the Tax…

15d Article 15d

Benefits that have not already been taken into account on other grounds shall be included in the profit of the year in which the taxpayer ceases to…

Section 2.10a

Objectvrijstelling voor buitenlandse ondernemingswinsten

15e Article 15e

For a taxpayer with profit from another state, the profit shall be reduced by the positive and negative amounts of the profit from that state…

15f Article 15f repealed
15g Article 15g

For the application of Article 15e, paragraph 7, a foreign entity is a low-taxed foreign investment entity if:

15h Article 15h

In the event that the aggregate amount of profit from a foreign enterprise in a year, to which the object exemption for foreign enterprise profits…

15i Article 15i

In the event that the taxpayer ceases to derive profit from another state, the object exemption for foreign business profits shall not apply with…

15j Article 15j

If the taxpayer ceases to derive profit from another state and the activities that led to that profit have been or are being continued to a…

Section 2.11

Aftrekbare giften

16 Article 16

Deductible gifts are gifts made during the year and substantiated by written documentation to institutions serving the public interest (algemeen nut…