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KVK — Netherlands Chamber of Commerce
Government Business · Netherlands-wide
The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, providing official business-registration services and practical information for people starting or running a company.
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Anyone who wants to work for themselves here, including someone who has just arrived and wants to register as a sole trader, must be entered in this register, and the KVK number it issues is what banks, clients and government bodies ask for.
About
KVK is the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce. It describes its own work as keeping registers and giving entrepreneurs information and advice. The register is the Handelsregister, or Business Register, which holds details of businesses and organisations in the Netherlands: trade and registered names, the KVK number, start and incorporation dates, visiting and postal addresses, email and website, business activities, legal structure, and the officials who may act for the business. Every registered business is given one unique KVK number. Most of these details are public, and anyone may search the register free of charge by name, address or KVK number, while documents such as a Business Register extract or filed financial statements are paid products. Other details, including an official's home address and telephone number and any citizen service number, are not public and go only to people such as lawyers, civil law notaries, bailiffs and named government services who can show a statutory need. Businesses that have stopped stay in the register.
What they offer
- Free public search of registered businesses by name, address or KVK number
- Paid register documents, including Business Register extracts and filed financial statements
- Release of non-public register details to lawyers, notaries, bailiffs and government services with a statutory need
- Information and step-by-step plans for starting a business
Programmes
- KVK Starters programme
An email series for people setting up a business.
Good to know
- It keeps the register and gives information and advice. It does not decide residence or work permits.
- No general email address, general telephone number or postal address is published on the pages read.
- It publishes the email domains it uses so that impersonating messages can be recognised, and it states it never asks for payment by email.
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