{"id":1084,"date":"2021-05-12T05:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/btw-ondernemer-is-geen-ib-ondernemer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:34:02","slug":"incidentally-a-vat-registered-business-is-not-the-same-as-an-income-tax-registered-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/btw-ondernemer-is-geen-ib-ondernemer\/","title":{"rendered":"A VAT-registered business is not an income tax-registered business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7050\" src=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190731_Buitensporige-last.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m self-employed for VAT purposes, and therefore also for income tax (IB). That\u2019s what a shopkeeper says in a<a href=\"http:\/\/deeplink.rechtspraak.nl\/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:GHARL:2021:4157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> case<\/a> in which the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal recently ruled.<\/p>\n<h4>Objective profit forecast<\/h4>\n<p>That statement sounds logical. However, there is one key difference between the concept of a trader for VAT purposes and for income tax purposes: a trader for income tax purposes must aim to make a profit (gain), and that profit (gain) must also be objectively foreseeable.<\/p>\n<h4>Antiques<\/h4>\n<p>The case concerns the owner of an antiques shop, who has been registered with the Chamber of Commerce since 1 March 1984. The Tax and Customs Administration is contesting the tax returns submitted for the years 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2002, the operator has reported a loss every year. On that basis, the Court concludes that there is no objective expectation that the activity will generate a profit (a benefit). Nor has the party concerned demonstrated that the business will generate a profit in the future.<\/p>\n<h4>Set off<\/h4>\n<p>The consequence of the Court\u2019s decision is that the antique dealer can no longer offset the losses from the shop against his other income from employment and property (Box 1). In 2016 and 2017, he received a pension. In other years, he may have received wages from employment.<br \/>\nFurthermore, he is not currently entitled to the business tax relief schemes: the investment allowance, the self-employed person\u2019s allowance, the assisting spouse\u2019s allowance and the retirement reserve. The SME exemption is negative in the event of losses and therefore results in an additional tax liability.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the income from the shop is taxed as income from savings and investments (Box 3). However, in that box, the income is determined on a flat-rate basis based on the balance between the value of the assets and the liabilities. This cannot result in a loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ik ben ondernemer voor de BTW, dus ook voor de inkomstenbelasting (IB). Dat stelt een winkelier in een zaak waarin Hof Arnhem-Leeuwarden onlangs heeft beslist. Objectieve winstverwachting Die stelling klinkt logisch. Maar er is \u00e9\u00e9n essentieel verschil tussen het begrip ondernemer in de BTW en in de IB: de ondernemer in de IB moet streven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}