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In the Netherlands, government bodies are regularly pushing everything they can to a digital inbox - which I vastly prefer. My simple, single-employer yearly in
by yunohn 3y ago
In the Netherlands, government bodies are regularly pushing everything they can to a digital inbox - which I vastly prefer. My simple, single-employer yearly income tax is all pre-calculated. Further, deductions for mortgage interest, healthcare, studies, etc are all pre-filled as much as possible. I think you only need to upload documents for complicated sitations or audits?
Of course, I still quickly download my year-end bank/salary/mortgage statements and cross-verify the tax departments numbers. The whole process takes at most a few hours.
IME Germany has significantly more hard-copy requirements.
- t0mas88 3y agoYou never need to upload the documents in the Netherlands, their software doesn't have such an option. But technically you're expected to keep the documents at least until you receive the "definitieve aanslag" and if you're nitpicking I think there is a 7 year term for the tax services to come back on your filed taxes and change things or demand proof. Practically that doesn't happen if you accepted their pre-filled numbers and they match your employers. But if you're a freelancer or other non-standard case I would keep digital copies for a few years just to be sure.
- yunohn 3y ago> You never need to upload the documents in the Netherlands, their software doesn't have such an option. Ah, interesting. I just assumed my situation never triggered it.