Entrepreneurship is about more than just running your business. It is also about making choices, seizing opportunities and overcoming obstacles. And this is why strategic advice can add value. Whether you are a start-up or running an established business, access to expert advice is essential to ensure the growth of your business. Want to know more? In this article, we explain why and what Tripolis Insight can do for you.
In this edition of the Tripost, we reflect on the freshly installed cabinet's tax plans announced last week. Handsome work, given the short time frame. Content-wise, it is not very exciting yet. There is some twisting of knobs from left to right, but no landslides. That makes sense. We are getting some limited vistas into the further future, but no one is committing to that. There are some simplifications in the plans that give me goose bumps.
The Cabinet announced the 2025 Tax Plan during Budget Day on Sept. 17. Below are the changes: Lowering rate in box 2 In the 2024 tax plan, the flat-tax rate was changed to two brackets. The basic rate was reduced to 24.5%, but from €67,000 a director-major shareholder pays the high rate of 33%. As a result, the current tax rate on Box 2 income is a maximum of 50.29%. This is higher than that for employees at 49.5% and certainly higher than that for the IB entrepreneur, when you also take into account the SME profit exemption and the self-employed deduction. With the reduction to 31% from €67,804, this is (partly) corrected.
Many of you will have noticed that Tripolis Business Support officially celebrates its 20th anniversary on October 1st. On August 23rd we celebrated this memorable moment during an exclusive reception at the Vrijthof in Maastricht before the Preuvenemint.
In our January Tripost we posted an article about the sponsorship of Jaap Huizing and Ellen Kelleners who traveled for a world citizen internship with Global Exploration Foundation. They have since visited our office together to share their experiences with us. They traveled for 3 weeks to Tanzania and Kenya respectively. Tell us... What did you all do and what were your experiences?
I am Marcel Hermans, consultant in the broad field of compensation and payroll processing and the questions employers have regarding their staff. I live in Eijsden with my wife and daughter, but she will be moving to her own apartment soon. We enjoy our regular restaurant visits and performances at the theater or concert halls.
- Dutch economy expected to grow 0.6% in 2024 and 1.6% in 2025 (August estimate) - Growth 2nd quarter 1% - German economy: expected growth 2024 0.3% - Gas and electricity prices stabilize in 2024 - Unemployment at end of August 2024 3.7% (374,000)
Al eerder kwam het bekende Deliveroo-arrest in het nieuws in het kader van de Wet Deregulering Beoordeling Arbeidsrelaties (DBA). Met de aankondiging vanuit onze beleidsmakers dat er vanaf 2025 strikter wordt gehandhaafd op eventueel verkapte arbeidsrelaties gaan we in dit artikel dieper in op de impact van dit arrest en wat dit betekent voor ondernemers in het midden- en kleinbedrijf (mkb) en hoe zij zich kunnen voorbereiden op de aangekondigde aanscherping vanaf 2025.