When a business generates income, a substantial share has to be paid on taxes. Nobody likes it, but that’s the way it is. However every taxpayer has the right to go to court in the case of a dispute with a tax inspector regarding the amount of tax due. A key point here is how likely you are to win this coming battle. You only go to court if you have a good chance of winning. In order to justify the costs of going to court, the amount at stake must be significant.

Innovative Tax specializes in international tax planning and advice. In previous years, Innovative Tax has built on its experience with solving complex international tax matters. For example, we were asked by a Dutch tax resident engaged in professional diving activities whether it would be a good idea to structure these global activities through a Delaware Limited company. Another example concerned a Dutch tax resident employed by a Jamaican/US cruise ship company and who was a professional cook on a cruise ship which sailed under a Maltese flag. We were asked about the tax and social security consequences.

We will be happy to manage your private Dutch income tax (including social security premiums) return. We have broad experience with filing income tax returns for private taxpayers who are Dutch tax residents and who generate their personal income wholly or partly in a foreign country.

We regularly provide on-the-job training relating to international and Dutch taxation in English or Dutch. These tax training sessions combine the theory with an emphasis on the practical applicability based on our experiences in the (inter) national tax practice. In consultation with you, we determine the subject and the level of detail. Here are some of the subjects which have already been addressed during (in-house) tax training:

You will encounter various issues when you are part of a family business which you may have built up yourself. These might relate to funding or an expansion of your business activities, or concern the appropriate measures to guarantee the continuity of the business. Other examples of family business issues are the structuring of control over the business, recruiting and retaining good employees or making arrangements for the succession of the business to the next generation.

Since the year 1995 Erik Jansen (1968) is working as (international) tax adviser. After he graduated in Business- and Tax Economics from the University of Rotterdam he was employed as tax adviser at Ernst & Young and subsequently Mazars in Rotterdam. During these years he learned a lot with respect to tax technical skills but also on professional skills and ethics; all the necessary skills of a tax adviser. In June 2007 he graduated a European Tax Law study at the University of Rotterdam. Erik is member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and the Dutch Association of Tax Science.

At Ernst & Young as well as Mazars Erik was employed in the Dutch and international tax practise. Besides tax advise on the field of individual and corporate income tax law he also took care of complicated individual and corporate income tax returns. At Mazars he was further more and more involved in legal (High) Court proceedings.

At Tax Consultants International Erik was employed in the international tax practise. He was responsible for a growing number of international corporate and individual clients. He was involved in tax matters of companies from the United States or Australia doing business in or via The Netherlands and with individual clients for example working on- or offshore in the oil- and gas business. Erik also gave tax training on divers subjects of international tax law.

In 2009 he moved from Rotterdam to Nijmegen where he was employed as tax director at Acconavm. He was head of the tax support division and as such responsible for the quality of the tax advise of 170 tax colleagues. He was chairman of the group of international tax and wage withholding tax / social security specialists and involved in divers negotiations with tax authorities to implement the innovation box.

On August 1, 2012 Erik started Innovative Tax. Since October 1, 2012 he is lecturer International Tax Law at the University of Applied Sciences in Kleve (Germany)

Erik is married and has three daughters. In private Erik likes divers sports. He likes international mountaineering; in the Alpes he climbed more than fourty mountains higher than 4,000 meters. Later in January 2005 he reached the summit of Aconcagua (Argentina, 6,965 meters), in June 2007 he reached the summit of Mount McKinley (Alaska, 6,190 meters) and in June 2008 he reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, 5,950 meters)
He ran the New York City Marathon in November 2001. He finished five times in an eleven city skating race of 200 kilometres.

“With passion, determination and perseverance  peak performances in both  taxes and sports are possible”