{"id":1255,"date":"2022-08-10T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/eenmanszaak-niet-op-naam-van-vriendin\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:34:18","slug":"sole-trader-not-registered-in-his-girlfriends-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/eenmanszaak-niet-op-naam-van-vriendin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole trader not registered in his girlfriend\u2019s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registration with the Chamber of Commerce indicates who the business owner is, but what matters is who actually runs the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Commercial Register<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A case was heard at the District Court of the Northern Netherlands <a href=\"https:\/\/deeplink.rechtspraak.nl\/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:RBNNE:2022:2781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">case<\/a> in which the parties concerned, X and Y, have been living together since 1986 and have two children. A sole trader business registered in Y\u2019s name has been listed in the Commercial Register of the Chamber of Commerce since 2008. The business activities consist of research, analysis and the production of biotechnological products. However, the Court concluded that it is not Y, but X, who is the actual entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tax and Customs Administration has concluded that X is the business owner, following an audit in which invoices, ledger entries and correspondence were requested from the sole trader\u2019s customers. The customers have also stated that X was the company\u2019s point of contact for them. During the audit, too, it was X, not Y, who acted as the point of contact for the Tax and Customs Administration. Suppliers issued invoices in X\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sole trader\u2019s assets included three bank accounts: two in Y\u2019s name and one in the name of the couple\u2019s daughter. The Court considers that X was able to access the company\u2019s funds via the bank account in the daughter\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is also important to note that in 2017 (the year in which X and Y\u2019s relationship ended), X set up a private limited company, of which he holds all the shares and is the sole director, which develops and manufactures food supplements, cosmetics and agricultural fertilisers. It is not clear to the Tax and Customs Administration whether the sole trader business was transferred into the private limited company. If that is the case, a substantial amount of goodwill must be accounted for and X must receive at least a customary salary from the private limited company. If that is not the case, income must still have been derived from the sole trader business. In light of these considerations, the Court does not consider the Tax and Customs Administration\u2019s estimate of X\u2019s income for 2017, at \u20ac100,000, to be unreasonable. The Court also considers the penalties for tax offences (totalling \u20ac112,000 over four years) and the calculated tax interest to be appropriate and justified, on the understanding that the penalties are reduced in view of the excessive length of the proceedings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De inschrijving bij de KvK is een aanwijzing van wie de ondernemer is, maar het gaat er om wie de onderneming daadwerkelijk exploiteert. Handelsregister Bij Rechtbank Noord-Nederland speelde een zaak waarin de betrokkenen, X en Y, sinds 1986 samenwonen en 2 kinderen hebben. Op naam van Y staat sinds 2008 bij de KvK een eenmanszaak [&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-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","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=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}