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Forming a Company in the Netherlands

Publication date 20 October 2016

The Netherlands is the gateway to Western Europe, has excellent logistics, a highly skilled, multilingual workforce and favorable tax regulations. How do you set up a company in this perfect business environment for foreign entrepreneurs? Reinier W.L. Russell, Esq., managing partner at Russell Advocaten, explains in his contribution to the Fall Issue of Paradigm, the journal of Primerus.

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