{"id":10977,"date":"2016-02-04T20:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:47:27","slug":"var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\/en\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"VAR disappears as of May 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted last Tuesday to abolish the Declaration of Employment Relationship (VAR) as of May 1, 2016. On that date, the Deregulation Assessment of Employment Relationships Act (DBA) will come into effect, replacing the VAR with model agreements that are intended to provide freelancers and businesses with more clarity and certainty. <\/p>\n<p>At this moment, self-employed individuals with a VAR can demonstrate to a client that they are hiring an independent contractor and therefore do not need to pay wage tax and premiums. By asking self-employed individuals to provide a VAR, clients can protect themselves from wage tax and premiums. In practice, however, it happens that self-employed individuals do have a VAR but are actually just employees in practice (&#8216;pseudo self-employed&#8217;).  <\/p>\n<p>With the introduction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belastingdienst.nl\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/bldcontentnl\/belastingdienst\/zakelijk\/ondernemen\/onderneming_starten\/voordat_u_start\/ondernemer_voor_inkomstenbelasting\/verklaring_arbeidsrelatie\/wetsvoorstel_var_verdwijnt_in_2016\/voorbeeldovereenkomsten\" target=\"_blank\">Model Agreements<\/a>, clients and self-employed persons who want certainty about the obligation to pay wage tax and premiums can have (sector) specific contracts reviewed by the Tax Authorities. They assess who is responsible for paying wage taxes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted last Tuesday to abolish the Declaration of Employment Relationship (VAR) as of May 1, 2016. On that date, the Deregulation Assessment of Employment Relationships Act (DBA) will come into effect, replacing the VAR with model agreements that are intended to provide freelancers and businesses with more clarity and certainty. At this moment,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[482,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dba-zzp","category-ongecategoriseerd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VAR disappears as of May 1, 2016 - Luijkx &amp; Van Duyneveldt Advocaten<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\/en\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Liesbeth van Duyneveldt\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\\\/en\\\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\\\/en\\\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Liesbeth van Duyneveldt\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5f65ff0ba7b57661044c87b4b4bde21a\"},\"headline\":\"VAR disappears as of May 1, 2016\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-02-04T19:47:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\\\/en\\\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"articleSection\":[\"DBA, ZZP\",\"Ongecategoriseerd\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\\\/en\\\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lvdadvocaten.nl\\\/en\\\/var-disappears-as-of-may-1-2016\\\/\",\"name\":\"VAR disappears as of May 1, 2016 - Luijkx &amp; 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