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Our free ebook walks you through the Dutch tax return as a homeowner. It shows what you can deduct, and it flags the costs people forget. All with the 2026 rules. It is written for internationals filing a Dutch return on their own home.
Inside the guide
The ebook takes you through your Dutch tax return as a homeowner, step by step. It sets out which buying costs you can deduct in the year you buy and which you cannot. It explains the eigenwoningforfait, the sum the Belastingdienst (the Dutch tax authority) counts as income because the home is your own. It covers your mortgage interest, and it covers the sell side for when you move on.
If you rent out part of your home, that income has its own rules. You can read about renting out and tax on our rental income page.
We wrote it for people owning a home in the Netherlands for the first time. You do not need any Dutch tax background to follow it. If you arrived in the Netherlands this year, your first return works differently. Ask us about your arrival year and we reply within one working day.
How tax on your own home works is on our overview of owning a home.
Deductible or not
Whether a home-buying cost is deductible depends on what it paid for, not on who sent the bill. Costs that financed the mortgage are deductible. Costs that bought the property itself are not.
That single line settles most of the confusion. The notary and the land registry each bill you twice. The part for the mortgage deed is deductible. The part for the transfer deed is not. Advice works the same way. Mortgage advice is deductible. Advice about the property itself is not.
This is the fact that decides your first return as a homeowner. The full list, with the ones people forget, is in the guide. Download the ebook below and check your own costs against it.
The guide is a free PDF and the download starts straight away. You do not sign up and we do not ask for your email. Keep it, print it, share it with your partner.
The figures match the return you file now.
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Updated 30 September 2026
