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Hi (again) and welcome to the Forum.

To answer your specific questions:

With regards to the 30% ruling; I'm not qualified to offer advice on Dutch tax matters; my own experience of having dealt with the Belastingtdienst myself was not good; advice offered by one "expert", turned out to be totally incorrect and he could not be held accountable.聽 At the top of the page is a link to our Handy Tools section, which contains a Business Directory; I've just checked and there is somebody there offering tax advice; my advice is that if the tax aspects are important enough to make you want to ask questions, then speak to an expert.聽 Alternatively, a quick Google search gave me this ; I don't specifically recommend them, there are alternative service providers who will come up in any such search.

All allowances are liable for inclusion in your annual tax assessment; they are regarded as salary.聽 By law, holiday pay is paid in May or June, for the previous 12-months, so it's paid in arrears.聽 It may be specifically described in the CAO (Collective Labour Agreement) for your workgroup, you can read about CAO's .

Indefinite contracts were introduced (I think it came from the EU) as a means of preventing employers using a series of fixed-term contracts to get around employment law protection; they are short-term and basically give you the same entitlement to holidays, sick pay etc as someone on a permanent contract; again, I'm not a legal expert, but from what I've read, indefinite contracts become permanent after 2 years.聽 My advice is to ask the specific question of your new employer.

If you have any further specific questions, please come back to us.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team

Thank you cynic! just finished reading聽 the employee manual聽 and got a better idea of how an indefinite contract is handled especially for temp agencies.

Would be reading the CAO next.

mjavi wrote:

Thank you cynic! just finished reading聽 the employee manual聽 and got a better idea of how an indefinite contract is handled especially for temp agencies.

Would be reading the CAO next.

LOL - yeah, if all else fails, read the instructions.

Just to add; where my daughter works in Almelo, they get their holiday pay paid 50/50 in June and December; it's that sort of thing that will be covered in your CAO.

Best of luck on your journey.