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Financing the Dutch Register. Obligatory fees or turn over? Ricco Dun, Manager Trade Register. Register at the Chamber of Commerce. Registering is obligatory for all Dutch companies including sole traders Payment for registering also obligatory. 3 tasks, 3 fees.
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Financing the Dutch Register Obligatory fees or turn over? Ricco Dun, Manager Trade Register
Register at the Chamber of Commerce • Registering is obligatory • for all Dutch companies • including sole traders • Payment for registering also obligatory
3 tasks, 3 fees • The Dutch CCI has 3 tasks: • Register • Information on doing business • Regional economy • The total yearly fee to be paid consists also of 3 parts
Total funding • The total costs of the CCI are covered from 2 sources: • Sales of products and services • Yearly fee from registered companies • So, no government funding!
Register fee • Basic principle: • Cover as much costs as possible from the sales of products from the register • The rest can be obtained through the yearly fee
Current discussions • Discussions are going on: • With Ministry of Economic Affairs • New versions of the Trade register Law and the Law on the Chambers of Commerce • Within the government between Ministries • Framework of base registers
Free governmental use • To avoid the ‘circular pumping of money’ the use by governments will become free of direct charge • Money will be reshuffled between the budgets of Ministries • Min. of Economic Affairs will pay the CCI for all governmental use
Free registering? • Shouldn’t registering be free? • Is it fair to have obligatory payment for obligatory registering? • Registering as a natural person is also free in NL • If so, the government will pay the CCI for the registering tasks • A lot of discussion between Ministries
Pricing • One pricing structure? • For all products from all base registers? • EU-directive re-use of information • All costs + profit? • First enquiries have started • Will cause a lot of discussion between registers and their Ministries
Questions? Ricco Dun, Manager Trade Register rdun@vvk.kvk.nl