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We currently act on behalf of entrepreneurs established in the Netherlands. If your business is established elsewhere in the EU, we cannot yet submit the request for you — your own tax authority has its own portal for that. The calculator and the knowledge base below do work for you: the rules per refund country are the same everywhere.
Working method

From official text to understandable answer

Four steps, every week again.

  1. Following sources

    EUR-Lex (the regulation and everything established under it), the authority that explains the rules and the national supervisors. To be set up per country, so that countries can be added without anything needing to be rebuilt.

  2. Linking to topics

    For each new publication, it is determined which of our pages it affects. What affects nothing remains in the log and is not published.

  3. Writing and checking

    The text is written on the basis of the sources and goes through a technical check: no commitments, no tailored advice, no figure that does not come from a source. Then a human reads it through.

  4. Updating, not rewriting

    If something changes, we supplement the article. The title, the address and the existing paragraphs remain — so that you recognise a page you read before.

And if something goes wrong?

Every statement is linked to an article in the official text. Monthly we check whether those references still hold: does the article still exist, and is the quote still literally in it? If it no longer holds, the page gets a flag and the date of the last successful check does not move up.