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

Thu Jun 20 15:56:58 UTC 2013

I havent looked into it in terms of openspending, but with colleague at
IRPI Giulio Rubino we are facing may Dutch companies used to control other
offshore companies perhaps in Panama etc

On 20 June 2013 16:51, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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