30% rule master degree

@chris359

I was hired from abroad and got the 30 rule as well, but I think if the form stipulates that you cannot have lived here within 16 months, they will definitely check.

The 30% rule is an extremely controversial issue and your trying to get around the rules so that you are granted this windfall ... is exactly what ticks people off so badly.

They have tried to abolish the 30% rule many times but the reason it stays is because if you have an established home somewhere else, chances are you are getting paid more there than the Dutch offer (so true)  ... so the 30% acts as an incentive to attach this talent.

But if they think you have been living here since April of this year, you really would not encounter any hardship by taking a lower salary here.

I would hire an immigration lawyer and see if there is some exception for students.

Good luck!

Yeah, your situation looks like a grey zone and none of us are going to be able to tell. Your employer needs to file the 30% ruling thing, and its a very good idea that you explain that situation to them so they know going in instead of it being an unpleasant surprise for them. Good luck!

    Hello people, I was hired from abroad and I will be start working in the Netherlands from the 1st of October. However I did my master's in the Netherlands so I had an address and BSN, I left Utrecht at the end of June but I have never deregister from the municipality so they had my address until the 30/4/2023. I was wondering if its possible to write on the form that I have left 16 months earlier from the date that I was hired in order to be eligible or they check it somehow that I left later and I have never deregister so according to their data I was a resident in the Netherlands until the end of April. Thank you.
   

    -@chris359

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

The issue is that the Belastingdienst use the same Government computer system that the Gemeente used to register you, they also use the same BSN, so as soon as the Belastingdienst enter your BSN into their system, it will show you as having been resident in the Netherlands at the time you were recruited, so do not qualify for the 30% tax rule.

The 30% rule itself is an agreement between your employer and the taxman, you can't apply for it by yourself and rather bizarrely, your employer doesn't have to pass all of the tax saved back to you - they could keep all of it.  My advice would be to speak to your employer and see if they will agree to apply for the ruling for you, in the meantime, go to the Gemeente and ask if you can put right your previous forgetfulness.

I hope this helps.

Cynic

Expat Team

@3Josh

I must say, though... my employers did not file the 30% rule form for me.

I worked at two different companies over 19 years, and both times I filled out the forms myself and then went to HR at both companies, who then signed them, and then I mailed them off myself.

The Belastingdienst have published a Q&A on the subject; it's on their website and you can access it from this link.