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I work for a company mainly based in The Netherlands that gets a ~$400 million USD/yr tax cut through WBSO. Search for "Innoation Box" here: http://ir.bookingho
by avar 8y ago
I work for a company mainly based in The Netherlands that gets a ~$400 million USD/yr tax cut through WBSO. Search for "Innoation Box" here: http://ir.bookingholdings.com/node/23191/html http://ir.bookingholdings.com/node/23191/html
It's definitely a huge benefit, but as far as I know this doesn't subtract from government budgets for basic research in The Netherlands (but maybe I'm wrong).
It's basically a tax benefit the government uses as an incentive to get more knowledge workers into the country and to stimulate that sort of economic activity in general.
- radicalbyte 8y agoThose knowledge workers can also get a flat 30% tax reduction which is applied to their gross wage before other reductions. The end result is that someone earning 100k EUR a year has a net take home pay of 101k EUR. Source: the tax returns of someone I know who took advantage of this scheme (I could have, only I found out about it too late).
- avar 8y agoIndeed, but this is unrelated to whether or not their employer participates in "research" via WBSO or any other schema, it's more like the U.S. H1B program, i.e. they've got to try to search for talent domestically (or at least make a show of it), not find it, and then pay above a certain amount for the job.
- mrmrcoleman 8y agoThe rules are much stricter these days and it’s not indefinite. When I left it was 5 years with a possible 5 year extension. There’s also a lot of luck in the application process. I had colleagues in identical jobs, similar salaries who didn’t get the 30% ruling when I did.