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Naila
Amsterdam on Aug 2026
I used them for incorporation and tax consultancy, and everything was super clear from the beginning, what the work would entail, the next steps, and what was promised versus delivered. The work done was exactly what I was looking for, and if something was unclear or I had a follow up question, they were always responsive with ad hoc communication. The process was really smooth, booking was super easy, they were flexible time wise, and the price felt reasonable. I really do highly recommend them.
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Stephen
Utrecht on Aug 2026
We came from the US and started a business here, and Ton has really been shepherding us through all the compliance and tax things we have to do. He is very good, very professional, very knowledgeable, and very responsive, I had three emails with him just today as we get down to the deadline for our first major tax filing. Coming to a new country where the tax process is quite different, it is great to have somebody who knows what they are doing. It takes a lot of the stress away, and I feel very comfortable and confident working with him.
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Ahmed
Monnickendam on Jul 2026
Eslam has been helping us with our annual tax filing, and as an expat in the Netherlands that is always tricky for me. He was really helpful and responsive with things like buying a house, the loan and taxation, and also questions about child benefits and school support. For what we have been doing, it has been pretty smooth, and I like that he is sometimes proactive and warns me about things like money transfers. Even though we do not have a big business or a lot of money flow, it has been going well and I would recommend him.
How much do accountants cost in Amsterdam?
Real price ranges from the jobs our vetted accountants actually do. Updated July 2026
American tax accountant
How much does an American tax accountant cost in Amsterdam?
Dutch price guides do not cover US filings at all, so treat any fixed number you see with suspicion and ask for it in writing. What the local market does tell you is the rate for specialist cross border work: from €180 an hour, against €100 to €200 for ordinary tax advice. Expect your Dutch return to be quoted normally, at €150 to €400, and the American side to be priced as specialist hours on top.
Specialist cross border advice
From €180 per hour
Ordinary tax advice
€100 to €200 per hour
Dutch income tax return
€150 to €400
Capital and wealth declaration
How much does a capital or wealth declaration cost in Amsterdam?
In the Netherlands your savings and investments are declared inside the aangifte inkomstenbelasting rather than as a separate filing, so the price you are looking for is the return itself: €150 to €400, with most offices at €190 to €250. Assets held abroad, a second property, or a partner to allocate between all add hours at €100 to €200. Bring the year end statement for every account and you will pay the lower end of that range.
Income tax return including box 3
€150 to €400
Straightforward return
€190 to €250
Extra hours if assets are complex
€100 to €200 per hour
Crypto tax reporting
How much does crypto tax reporting cost in Amsterdam?
No Dutch price guide breaks crypto out, so it gets billed as extra hours on top of your normal return rather than as its own service. The return itself is €150 to €400, and the work of reconciling wallets and exchanges is advice time at €100 to €200 an hour. If your exports are clean the extra is small; if you are handing over a year of unlabelled transactions, it is not, so tidy them first.
Income tax return, base
€150 to €400
Extra hours for crypto
€100 to €200 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
Double taxation treaty advice
How much does double taxation treaty advice cost in Amsterdam?
This is hourly work, not a package. Ordinary tax advice is €100 to €200 an hour, and international questions are exactly the ones that push you to the top of that range or past it, where a genuine specialist starts at €180. Dutch offices list cross border tax and BTW questions as extra work outside any standard fee, so do not expect them inside a monthly package. Most treaty questions get settled in an hour or two, so ask for an estimate in hours.
Tax advice
€100 to €200 per hour
General tax support
€80 to €160 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
Inheritance and estate tax
How much does inheritance and estate tax advice cost in Amsterdam?
No Dutch accountant price guide quotes inheritance work, so this is always a written quote based on the size and shape of the estate. What you can anchor on is the hourly rate: €100 to €200 for tax advice, from €180 for a specialist, and a normal tax return for the year is a separate €150 to €400. Ask whether the quote covers the filing itself or only the advice around it, because that gap is where the surprises live.
Tax advice
€100 to €200 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
Income tax return, separate
€150 to €400
International tax planning
How much does international tax planning cost in Amsterdam?
Planning work is billed by the hour and lands at the senior end: €130 to €180 for a senior accountant or fiscalist, and from €180 once it is properly specialist. Dutch offices list cross border tax and BTW questions as extra work outside the standard package, so do not assume a monthly fee covers any of it. For a company with entities in more than one country, the yearly bill starts around €5,000 and climbs from there.
Senior accountant or fiscalist
€130 to €180 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
Company package with advice
From €5,000 per year
NHR registration and filing
How much does NHR registration and filing cost in Amsterdam?
NHR is a Portuguese tax regime, not a Dutch one, so an Amsterdam office will not have a standard price for it and none of the local guides quote a figure. If you are moving between the two countries, what you are really buying is cross border tax advice, billed at €100 to €200 an hour and from €180 for a genuine specialist. Anyone quoting you a flat NHR fee here is worth a follow-up question about who actually does the filing in Portugal.
Cross border tax advice
€100 to €200 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
General tax support
€80 to €160 per hour
NHR tax regime advisory
How much does NHR tax regime advice cost in Amsterdam?
NHR is Portugal's regime for new residents, so it is not something an Amsterdam office sells as a standard service and no Dutch guide puts a price on it. What you can budget for is advisory time: €100 to €200 an hour for tax advice, and from €180 once real cross border expertise is needed. Most people get their answer inside one or two hours, so ask for an estimate in hours rather than a package price.
Tax advice
€100 to €200 per hour
Specialist cross border advice
From €180 per hour
General tax support
€80 to €160 per hour
Personal tax return (aangifte inkomstenbelasting)
How much does a personal tax return cost in Amsterdam?
The aangifte inkomstenbelasting costs €150 to €400 when an accountant does it for you, and most offices quote €190 to €250 for a straightforward one. It goes up if your year was more complicated than salary plus a few deductions, think a partner to file with, income from abroad, or box 3 assets to work through, and that extra time is billed at €100 to €200 an hour. If you already pay for monthly bookkeeping, check whether the return is inside that fee before you pay for it twice.
Income tax return
€150 to €400
Straightforward return
€190 to €250
Extra hours if complicated
€100 to €200 per hour
Tax consultation for individuals
How much does a tax consultation cost in Amsterdam?
One-off tax advice is billed by the hour, and in Amsterdam that means €100 to €200 an hour with a fiscalist, or €80 to €160 for more general tax support. A junior at a small office starts around €75, while a senior with a specialism goes to €180 and beyond. Most questions get answered inside an hour or two, so ask for an estimate in hours rather than a fixed quote.
Tax or financial advice
€100 to €200 per hour
General tax support
€80 to €160 per hour
Junior at a small office
€75 to €110 per hour
Senior accountant or fiscalist
€130 to €180 per hour
US expat tax (FBAR and 1040)
How much does US expat tax filing cost in Amsterdam?
A 1040 and an FBAR are American filings and no Dutch price guide quotes them, so this one is always a written quote. The useful local anchor is what a specialist charges here, from €180 an hour, plus the fact that your Dutch aangifte inkomstenbelasting stays a separate €150 to €400 whatever happens on the US side. Ask up front whether the quote covers both countries or only one, and whether the FBAR is inside it.
Specialist hours
From €180 per hour
Dutch income tax return, separate
€150 to €400
General tax support
€80 to €160 per hour
General accounting services
How much does an accountant cost in Amsterdam?
Across Amsterdam an accountant works out at €560 to €5,600 a year, with the local average around €2,240, and that is roughly 12% above the national figure because wages and demand here are higher. Offices either bill by the hour, at €75 to €180, or put you on a fixed monthly package, which is usually cheaper once you hand over the whole administration. Quotes are almost always excluding 21% BTW, so add that on top of every number you are given.
Hourly rate
€75 to €180 per hour
Monthly package
€50 to €120 per month
Amsterdam average
€2,240 per year
Full yearly range
€560 to €5,600 per year
Ongoing bookkeeping for freelancers (ZZP)
How much does ongoing self-employed bookkeeping cost in Amsterdam?
If you are a ZZP'er with a tidy digital administration, monthly bookkeeping sits between €50 and €120 a month, which works out at roughly €600 to €1,500 a year with your quarterly BTW returns and the income tax return included. How much you do yourself moves that number more than anything else: keeping the books yourself and handing over the filings costs about €50 a month, giving away the lot is nearer €120. A busier eenmanszaak or vof with more transactions climbs to €125 to €500 a month.
Simple ZZP, monthly
€50 to €120 per month
Simple ZZP, yearly
€600 to €1,500 per year
You do most of it yourself
About €50 per month
Busier eenmanszaak or vof
€125 to €500 per month
Registration as self-employed
How much does registration as self-employed cost in Amsterdam?
Registering as a ZZP'er is something you do yourself at the KvK, so there is no accountant price list for it and none of the Dutch guides quote one. What people do pay for is the hour or two of setting things up properly, choosing the legal form, getting the BTW side right and putting a bookkeeping system in place, at €100 to €200 an hour, or less at a small office. The number worth budgeting for is what comes after: a €50 to €120 monthly bookkeeping package.
Setup advice
€100 to €200 per hour
Junior at a small office
€75 to €110 per hour
Bookkeeping afterwards
€50 to €120 per month
Annual tax return for the self-employed
How much does a self-employed annual tax return cost in Amsterdam?
Year end for a ZZP'er is the income tax return plus closing the books, and the aangifte itself is €150 to €400, with most offices landing at €190 to €250. If you also want a proper jaarrekening for an eenmanszaak or vof, count on €600 to €1,200 on top of that. Bought as one yearly package with the quarterly BTW returns included, the whole thing normally comes to €600 to €1,500.
Income tax return
€150 to €400
Jaarrekening, eenmanszaak or vof
€600 to €1,200
Full year package for a ZZP'er
€600 to €1,500 per year
VAT filing for the self-employed
How much does self-employed VAT filing cost in Amsterdam?
Bought on its own, your quarterly BTW-aangifte costs €50 to €150 per return, or from about €45 per period once your books are already in order. In practice most ZZP'ers never see it as a separate line, because it is bundled into a €50 to €120 monthly bookkeeping package along with the year end work. Ask which of the two you are being quoted, because they are not the same number and offices switch between them.
Single BTW return
€50 to €150 per return
With clean digital books
From €45 per filing period
Bundled in a monthly package
€50 to €120 per month
Accounting for a BV (limited company)
How much does accounting for a limited company cost in Amsterdam?
A small BV in Amsterdam usually pays €2,000 to €5,000 a year for the full package: bookkeeping, quarterly BTW returns, the jaarrekening and the corporate tax return. Once there is a DGA salary, staff and quarterly reporting in the mix, that climbs to €6,000 to €12,000 a year. The jaarrekening on its own is €1,500 to €2,500 for a BV, which is the single biggest line and the main reason a BV costs so much more than a freelancer. Quotes are normally excluding 21% BTW.
Small BV, all in
€2,000 to €5,000 per year
BV with a DGA
€6,000 to €12,000 per year
Jaarrekening for a BV
€1,500 to €2,500
Corporate tax return (VPB)
€300 to €750 per year
Business plan and fundraising support
How much does business plan and fundraising support cost in Amsterdam?
Accountants do this work, the forecasts, the plan and the paperwork a bank or an investor wants to see, but they quote it per project and no Dutch guide publishes a figure. Budget it as advice hours: €100 to €200 an hour, or from €180 once it needs a specialist. Ask how many hours the office thinks it needs before you agree anything, because this is the service where the scope moves the most.
Advice and forecasting hours
€100 to €200 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
General financial support
€80 to €160 per hour
Fundraising support
How much does fundraising support cost in Amsterdam?
Guidance on a financing application, the forecasts, the numbers a lender wants and the conversations around them, is quoted per case and no local price guide lists it. In hours it is the same advisory rate as any other project: €100 to €200, rising to €180 and up once it becomes genuinely specialist work like a valuation. Agree a cap on hours up front, because this is the bill that catches people out.
Financing application support
€100 to €200 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
Financial report for a lender
€40 to €300
Company formation and opening a company
How much does company formation cost in Amsterdam?
Nobody publishes a flat price for this, because setting up a BV runs through a civil law notary and a KvK registration that the accountant does not control, and those bills arrive separately. What you pay the accountant for is advice on which legal form fits, an eenmanszaak, a vof or a BV, and that is billed at €100 to €200 an hour. Get the notary quote and the accountant quote separately so you can see what each one actually covers.
Advice on your legal form
€100 to €200 per hour
Specialist advice
From €180 per hour
Junior at a small office
€75 to €110 per hour
Company VAT filing (BTW-aangifte)
How much does company VAT filing cost in Amsterdam?
A BTW return costs €50 to €150 each time, and most companies file quarterly, so that is four of them a year. The cheaper end, from about €45 per filing period, is what you pay when your bookkeeping is already digital and complete, since the accountant is only checking rather than sorting. A correction afterwards, a suppletie, starts around €50.
Quarterly BTW return
€50 to €150 per return
With clean digital books
From €45 per filing period
BTW correction (suppletie)
From €50
Financial management and reporting
How much does financial management cost in Amsterdam?
A one-off financial report costs €40 to €300, depending on how much data has to be worked through before anyone can write anything. Ongoing management reporting is rarely sold on its own; it arrives as part of a bigger package, and once you want quarterly reports and advice alongside the yearly work you are at €5,000 a year and up. The advice hours inside that are €100 to €200.
Financial report
€40 to €300
Package with quarterly reporting
From €5,000 per year
Advice hours
€100 to €200 per hour
Ongoing company accounting
How much does ongoing company accounting cost in Amsterdam?
A small BV usually pays €100 to €500 a month for the running administration, and a BV with a DGA on the payroll is more often €500 to €1,000 a month. Over a year that lands at €2,000 to €5,000 for a straightforward BV, and €6,000 to €12,000 once there is payroll, reporting and real advice involved. The jaarrekening is normally billed on top of the monthly fee, so check whether your quote includes it before you compare two offices.
Small BV, monthly
€100 to €500 per month
BV with a DGA, monthly
€500 to €1,000 per month
Small BV, yearly
€2,000 to €5,000 per year
Jaarrekening on top
€1,500 to €2,500
Payroll services
How much does payroll cost in Amsterdam?
Payroll is priced per payslip: €10 to €25 for each one, every month, so the bill follows headcount rather than your revenue. The wage tax filing that goes with it starts around €15 per employee per month, and a small office running the whole salary and personnel administration charges roughly €100 to €250. HR work like contracts and sick leave admin usually sits outside that price, so ask what is actually inside the fee.
Per payslip
€10 to €25 per payslip
Wage tax filing
From €15 per employee per month
Salary and personnel admin
€100 to €250
Annual company audit
How much does an annual company audit cost in Amsterdam?
An accountantsverklaring, the formal opinion on your annual accounts, runs €1,000 to €2,500, and a full statutory audit starts in the several thousands. Only an RA, or an AA with the right certification, may sign one, which is exactly why it costs more than simply having the jaarrekening compiled at €750 to €2,500. Most small BVs in Amsterdam are not obliged to be audited at all, so check whether you actually need this before you collect quotes.
Accountantsverklaring
€1,000 to €2,500
Review engagement
From €1,500
Jaarrekening compiled, no opinion
€750 to €2,500
Review of charities and associations
How much does a review of charities and associations cost in Amsterdam?
A stichting or a vereniging gets quoted case by case, because what the board needs ranges from a simple set of annual figures to a formal review, and no Dutch guide prices it as its own service. As a starting point, a beoordelingsopdracht, a review engagement that sits below a full audit, begins around €1,500, and having the jaarrekening compiled is €750 to €2,500. Find an office that already works with stichtingen and get the scope written down before you agree a price.
Review engagement
From €1,500
Jaarrekening compiled
€750 to €2,500
Advice hours on top
€100 to €200 per hour
Internal audit
How much does an internal audit cost in Amsterdam?
Setting up internal controls and checking that you meet the rules, Wwft compliance included, is a project quoted per company and no guide puts a number on it. The nearest published prices are the audit work it sits beside: a formal accountantsverklaring is €1,000 to €2,500 and a review engagement starts at €1,500. If what you need is advisory rather than a formal opinion, expect €100 to €200 an hour.
Advisory hours
€100 to €200 per hour
Accountantsverklaring, for comparison
€1,000 to €2,500
Review engagement
From €1,500
Frequently Asked Questions
What people want to know before hiring accountants in Amsterdam.
What should I check before hiring accountants in Amsterdam?
Read recent reviews, be clear about exactly what you need, and agree the scope and a price in writing before any work starts. For anything regulated, check the credential yourself rather than taking it on trust.
Are prices in Amsterdam quoted with or without BTW?
Check, because it varies. A price quoted to a consumer should already include BTW, and most trades do show it that way, but plenty of price lists are still written excluding it. The rate is 21% on most work, though labour on a home more than two years old is taxed at 9%, and so are things like sports and fitness classes. Look for the word "inclusief" or "exclusief" next to the figure before you compare two quotes, and ask whether travel costs and parking are in there too.
How do I check a business in Amsterdam is properly registered?
Every legitimate Dutch business has a KvK number from the Chamber of Commerce, and you can look it up free in the public register. For gas, heating and electrical work there are extra schemes worth asking about, mainly SCIOS and InstallQ. A business that will not give you its KvK number is a reason to walk away.
What is the most important thing to know before booking?
Be clear about what you want and get the price and scope agreed up front, so there are no surprises. Reading other people's reviews is the quickest way to find someone who does the job well and turns up when they said they would.
What should I avoid when hiring accountants in Amsterdam?
Avoid paying the full amount up front (a deposit can be fair), anyone who will not give a clear quote, and unusually cheap prices that get padded with extras later.
How do I find accountants I can trust in Amsterdam?
Check the reviews and any credentials before you book. On Locallista the reviews are phone-verified and the ranking is based on real experience, not who paid the most.