Your 2026 tax return
The main guide to filing your Dutch return for 2026. It walks through the boxes, the deadlines and the parts most people miss.
Free Dutch tax ebooks for your 2026 return
Our free Dutch tax ebooks explain the 2026 return one situation at a time. Pick the guide that fits you and download it. You give us no email and no details.
Written by
Menno van der MadeHead of Tax - Tax Consultant
Reviewed by
Jessy te PaskeHead of Client Success
Updated 6 October 2026
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What you get from our Dutch tax ebooks
Each guide is a short PDF on one part of the Dutch tax return. It uses the 2026 rules and figures. You read it, keep it and share it with whoever helps you file.
A tax advisor writes each guide and a second advisor checks the figures, so the explanation holds up. You download it straight away, with no sign-up, no form and no email.
They are written for people filing a Dutch return without a tax background. We explain each Dutch term the first time it comes up.
You can see how we handle a full return on our page about help with your tax return.
Which guide fits
Which Dutch tax ebook answers your question?
Start from your situation, not from the form, and the right guide is easy to find. Each ebook below answers one question the Dutch return raises, so you can read only the ones that apply to you.
Filing your 2026 return in general? Start with the main guide. Moving to or from the Netherlands this year? Read the migration guide. Own or buying a home? Read the guide on your house. Wondering how the whole system fits together? Read the guide on the Dutch tax system. Facing an inheritance? Read the inheritance tax guide. Earning on the side? Read the guide on income from other activities.
Two facts help you place yourself. The Dutch return splits your income into three parts, called boxes. Box 1 is work and your home, Box 2 is a substantial shareholding and Box 3 is savings and investments. And for the year you arrive in or leave the Netherlands you file a separate migration return. That goes online or on the paper M form.
We set out the full rules on our pages about the Dutch tax system, buying a home and inheritance tax.
The guides give you the rules and the context. When your own case needs a decision, the last section shows you how to talk it through with an advisor.
Buying or selling your home
What changes in your return the year you buy or sell a home in the Netherlands. It works through three common situations with examples.
The year you move in or out
The return for your first or last year in the Netherlands, filed on the M form. It answers the questions a part-year in two countries brings.
The Dutch tax system
How the Dutch income tax system fits together, from the three boxes to credits and allowances. A good place to start if the system is new to you.
Inheritance tax
What a death in the family means for tax and who owes what. It sets out how your relationship to the person who died decides your position.
Income from other activities
How to declare income that is not a salary and not a business, such as freelance or one-off work. It shows where you declare this income in your return.
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