Ministers announce more help for start-ups and the self-employed
Dutch NewsThe cabinet has published details of six more measures to help entrepreneurs and the self employed cope with the impact of the coronavirus crisis, in the form of temporary tax reductions totaling €4bn. The measures follow concerns that the self-employed and small firms were being excluded from many of the government’s other support measures even though they too are being affected by the coronavirus crisis. One of the measures will allow the owners of sole-trader companies to lower their salary temporarily, cutting premiums and income tax by some €6,200, according to finance ministry calculations. ‘It would be wrong if the self-employed were to lose this at a time when they would normally be working,’ tax minister Hans Vijlbrief said, referring to the fact that so many hospitality industry workers are now out of work, despite the good weather.