[OKFN-NL] [OpenSpending] €278bn through shell companies in Netherlands

Thu Jun 20 14:51:54 UTC 2013

There has been a little bit of published material on the tax side of this,
so the amount of tax paid by these entities. will see if i can find a
source through the Dutch tax authority.

best
Ton

Op donderdag 20 juni 2013 schreef Anders Pedersen (anders.pedersen at okfn.org)
het volgende:

> Thanks Jonathan,
>
> From the article:
> "12,000 multinational holding companies, of which 75% are based at trust
> offices"
>
> It would be interesting to map the density of the trust offices across the
> country. As we can pull Dutch company data including addresses from
> Opencorporates and as the Dutch postal codes are very small entities, it
> should be possible to map this.
>
> When it comes to access to corporate financial data in NL, things are, as
> far as I know, much more complicated. Opencorporates is pulling information
> from the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC (US) and this could
> possibly be one of the best sources of Dutch corporate financial
> information at the moment.
>
> Anders
>
> On 20 June 2013 07:46, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jonathan.gray at okfn.org');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Apparently "€278bn flow through shell companies based in the Netherlands
>> every year". [1]
>>
>> Wonder if this is something that any OpenSpending folks in NL have looked
>> into?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/the_netherlands_is_not_a_tax_h.php
>>
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