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Registering as an employer with the tax administration is enough for a foreign company that would rather not incorporate: it obtains a wage withholding number in the process. This route is common and works well, provided the accompanying reporting obligations are accepted.

Written contracts are the norm, and the employer must inform the employee in writing of the essential terms of the relationship. Check whether a sector collective agreement applies and whether an industry pension fund is compulsory for the activity: that affiliation, often discovered late, applies retroactively.

There remains the question of which Dutch sickness and accident arrangements fall to the employer. Continued payment of wages during sickness is the most disconcerting of them: it runs for a long period and comes with active reintegration duties, which makes it a financial exposure to be covered, often through insurance.

Payroll produces a single periodic return covering both tax and contributions, together with the corresponding payment. Ending an open-ended contract requires either administrative authorisation or a court decision depending on the grounds, and a transition payment is due in most cases. Check finally the tax regime applicable to employees recruited from abroad, whose conditions and duration have been revised more than once in recent years and should never be assumed from an older briefing note.