Dutch estate planning · open working library

Turn a question into a map of the next decision

Roadmaps, questionnaires, checklists and calculators for families, founders and assets connected to the Netherlands. No email or document upload is required. Nothing is sent automatically; you can choose to save a completed result in your personal space.

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Place in the overall system

Test a scenario

We explain the dependency, record assumptions and compare scenarios in that order. A calculator supports orientation; it is not an individual tax conclusion.

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Catalogue

Choose the outcome you need now

A mark means only that a question has been discussed. No public tool confirms a document, authority, tax result or foreign procedure.

roadmap15–20 minutes

Estate Control starter

Five zones × three events working map

View one family system through fifteen separate cells — without an overall score or false compensation between risks.

roadmap20–30 minutes

Title before succession

Ownership and beneficiary inventory

Separate family use of an asset from legal title, economic benefit and a contractual beneficiary.

questionnaire35–50 minutes

Family objectives brief

Family questions before meeting the notary

Record the family decisions that cannot be delegated to the person drafting the will.

roadmap20–30 minutes

Event × role

Event-based authority matrix

Test absence, incapacity and death separately for personal, banking and corporate actions.

checklist20–30 minutes

Amount · reserve · route · calendar

Lifetime transfer planner

Connect the purpose of a transfer, personal resilience, documents and annual actions before calculating a tax outcome.

questionnaire30–45 minutes

Purpose before structure

Family capital and decision canvas

Move from purpose and perimeter to roles, distributions, exit and events before choosing a family fund, Dutch foundation or share-administration foundation.

roadmap25–35 minutes

Value · vote · management · time

Owner-director succession matrix

Separate the family’s economic outcome, shareholder rights, the director role and the business’s operational work.

roadmap25–40 minutes

Asset × Country × Procedure

Cross-border map of people, assets and documents

Separate tax residence, habitual residence, nationality, asset situs and the procedure of the particular institution.

checklist30–45 minutes

Access · intention · authority · timing

Digital succession: 72 hours / 30 days / later

Map digital dependencies, the owner’s decisions and a lawful action route without disclosing passwords or other secrets.

questionnaire20–30 minutes

Roles before conclusions

Foreign structure inventory

Describe roles, control, assets and cash flows without transmitting secret data or assuming a Dutch tax result.

calculator10–15 minutes

72 hours · 30 days · later

Post-event liquidity gap calculator

Compare when funds become available to the right person with when family, business and implementation obligations fall due.

calculator15–20 minutes

First death · interest · early repayment

Children’s claims and survivor-liquidity calculator

Connect the first spouse’s estate, the children’s claims, inheritance tax, the current debt value and the survivor’s protected reserve.

calculator12–18 minutes

One capital base · two routes · three positions

Box 3 and Dutch private limited company (BV) comparison

Compare personal ownership and ownership through a BV on the same capital, horizon and return assumption, using separately confirmed tax amounts.

calculator12–18 minutes

Cash now · family claim · annual actions

Family loan, gift or a combination of both

Compare the remaining family claim, recipient payments and permanently transferred value in three transparent scenarios.

calculator10–15 minutes

12 months · buffer · stress

Liquidity screen before a dividend distribution

See what remains in the company after ordinary costs, obligations, a reserve, the proposed dividend and one adverse scenario.

checklist20–30 minutes

Purpose · agreement · conduct · resilience

Owner-director and BV Loan Health Check

Review a loan between an owner-director and a Dutch private limited company as a living financial arrangement, not as a file that was signed once.

checklist25–35 minutes

Successor · transaction perimeter · money · control

Business Transfer Route Map

Compare a share transfer, an asset-and-liability transfer and a phased transition before the family starts choosing documents or tax reliefs.

checklist25–40 minutes

Assets · income · value movement · evidence

Box 3 actual-return evidence file

Prepare the data for comparing the standard Box 3 calculation with werkelijk rendement — actual return — without combining bank balances, investments, property and debts into one unsupported figure.

roadmap30–45 minutes

Purpose · owner · user · money · tax moments

Dutch real estate baseline

Begin with the property itself rather than a country or relief: why the family owns it, who owns and uses it, how it is financed and which events can change the regime.

checklist35–55 minutes

Transaction first · tax conditions separately

Business succession tax-conditions evidence file

Collect evidence on the operating business, assets, ownership period, successor and continuation before treating either Dutch business-succession tax measure as confirmed.

checklist20–35 minutes

Donor · recipient · asset · value · deadline

Gift-tax return evidence checklist

Prepare the facts and documents for an aangifte schenkbelasting before the amount, date, value, exemption and source of funds have to be reconstructed later.

checklist35–60 minutes

Deceased · heirs · assets · debts · deadline

Inheritance-tax return evidence checklist

Collect the facts, values and documents for an aangifte erfbelasting in readable blocks before assets are distributed or a provisional figure is treated as final.

When the map is ready

Do not turn an unknown into an assumption.

Estate Control Check separates what the family says from a located document, reviewed authority and confirmed procedure.

What the Estate Control Check includes