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Kennismigrant Visa vs 30% Ruling: What Indian Professionals Need to Know

12.08.2026

Two things get treated as one thing in almost every conversation about moving to the Netherlands. "I'm coming on the highly skilled migrant visa, so I'll get the 30% ruling." That sentence contains a permit, a tax scheme, and an assumption and the assumption is wrong often enough to cost people real money. They're separate. Different authority, different application, different salary test, different timing. You can have the permit and not the tax benef...

Before You Say Yes to a Dutch Offer: The Address Problem Nobody Mentions

10.08.2026

Most people preparing for a move to the Netherlands focus on the visa. Salary threshold, employer sponsorship, permit approvalget through that and the hard part is over. It isn't. The visa is the part your employer handles. The part you handle starts the day you land, and it runs on a sequence that almost nobody explains before you sign. Here's the shape of it: you can't get your citizen service number without a registered address. Without that number, your empl...

$EOR vs Entity in Germany: Why the Math Is Different Here?$

EOR vs Entity in Germany: Why the Math Is Different Here?

05.08.2026

Most companies model this decision in euros. Setup cost, monthly fee, headcount, break-even point. Run that model for Germany and you'll get a surprise: setting up a German company is cheaper than the European average, not more expensive. There's no mandatory severance fund like Italy's. There's no 900-agreement collective bargaining system to classify yourself into. On paper, Germany looks like one of the easier places to go directly. The catch is that in G...