In the Netherlands that is the job of the bedrijfsschadeverzekering: business interruption insurance for the gross profit you lose when insured damage stops your trading. Two numbers decide whether it holds up. Our associated company, a separate licensed advice firm, advises on both and arranges the insurance. Handling the tax that comes with it stays with us.
Two numbers
the insured sum and the benefit period, set to fit
Advice, not sales
advice on both numbers, then the insurance arranged for you
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The Dutch cover
Business interruption insurance covers the gross profit you lose when insured damage brings your business to a standstill. Think of fire, a burst pipe, a leak or storm. Vandalism and theft count too. It pays towards what the standstill costs you: missed profit and the bills that keep coming, from rent and salaries to loan repayments.
The benefit usually runs until your building is rebuilt or your turnover is back at its old level. Most policies cap that period, from six months to several years. The cover is not mandatory. It earns its place when your business depends on its premises, equipment or stock.
Our associated company reads the Dutch conditions with you and explains what they mean for your business. The policy itself stays a Dutch contract. They translate what matters.
Your situation
The answer is different for every business. Pick the card that matches yours.
A closed door stops your income while the costs keep running. This page is about you: the cover, its limits and its two numbers.
This is meWorking anywhereThen this is probably not your cover. Your real risks are your own income and your equipment. Work can usually move elsewhere.
See disability coverExisting policyPolicies age faster than businesses. A check tells you whether both numbers still match how you trade.
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The two numbers
The verzekerde som (insured sum) and the uitkeringstermijn (benefit period) decide whether this policy actually protects you. The sum is your gross profit for the chosen period: your net profit plus the fixed costs that keep running. The term is how long the insurer keeps paying. At one insurer it is a choice between 26 and 156 weeks. It should follow a realistic rebuild time, not an optimistic one.
Set the sum too low and every payout shrinks in the same proportion. That is Dutch onderverzekering. It surfaces only at the claim. Set the term too short and the money stops before your turnover is back.
No quote tool sets these numbers for you. You get them worked out from your own figures, checked against your other covers and your income. We add what your tax position means. The premium is a business cost, and a payout counts as taxable profit. Newly started in the Netherlands? Your forecast and your lease set them instead.
The boundaries
**Business interruption insurance only pays when the interruption starts with insured physical damage.** Some policies also pay when damage next door closes your street. Six things stay outside it, each with its own place. Some causes stay uninsured altogether, as the note below explains.
Less turnover because customers stay away is a business risk, not an insured event. Without insured damage, there is no payout.
See all business coverThe buildingThat belongs on the buildings cover, the opstalverzekering, usually your landlord’s or your own.
Other business coversYour inventoryThe contents cover, the inventarisverzekering, insures the items themselves. Business interruption insurance picks up the trading standstill they cause.
Business cover overviewYour stockStock belongs on the goods cover, the goederenverzekering. The standstill after insured damage to it belongs here.
Browse business coverYour own incomeThat is disability cover, the AOV. It insures you as a person, where this cover insures the business.
See disability coverOther people’s damageLiability for damage you cause falls under the business liability cover, the AVB.
See business liability insuranceIntent, poor maintenance, illegal activities and natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes usually stay uninsured in this class. The exact list varies by insurer. Our associated company reads yours with you.
You tell your advisor how you trade: premises, people, stock and the covers you already hold.
The sum comes from your own figures, the term from a realistic rebuild time.
The advice comes in writing and you take your time with it. Questions are part of the service.
Our associated company advises on both numbers from the first call. They then arrange the insurance and take it out with you.
“Most policies I read still fit the business of three years ago. My job is to get them looked at again.”
Kim van der Manden
Your dedicated advisor
Kim works for A&H Finance, our associated company. You speak to the same person from the first call onwards, who works out your numbers and checks the offer with you.
A first conversation about your premises and your figures.
Send your question whenever it comes up. We pick it up on working days.
Call +31 20 2170120 and ask for Kim.
Your first conversation
Pick the situation that fits. Your first conversation with the advisor starts there. Every route ends in written advice. That first conversation is free.
AN EXISTING POLICY
In the first conversation your advisor checks your current bedrijfsschadeverzekering against how you trade today.
YOUR FIRST COVER
No cover yet? In the first conversation you and your advisor set both numbers and define what the policy must contain.
THE WHOLE RISK PICTURE
In the first conversation your advisor reads your cover next to your liability cover and your own income. The tax side stays with us.
A premium quote comes from the insurer. You get help judging it.
In the first conversation your advisor looks at how many covers are in scope and what your situation needs. Insurance advice is provided by our associated company A&H Finance. They advise you and arrange the insurance. Your agreement for this advice is with them and they are responsible for the service. TaxSavers introduces you and is not a party to that agreement. Do you have a complaint about the advice? Raise it with them first. If you do not reach a solution together, you can take it to Kifid. Kifid is the Dutch institute for financial disputes. The firm is registered there and have accepted binding advice, so a Kifid ruling binds them.
Insurer websites can price this cover in minutes. They cannot tell you whether the sum and the term fit your business.
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Short answers first. The longer ones are what the call is for. Ask Kim
One call tells you whether this cover belongs in your situation. A clear no also counts as advice.
What's included
20 minutes about how your business trades
A first sense of what a policy would need to carry
Clear next steps, whether you buy or not
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