Expat in Holland publishes guides on money, tax, healthcare, housing and Dutch administration — decisions where getting it wrong has real consequences. This page explains how we research, write, review and correct our content, so you can judge how much to trust it.
Our guides are written and edited by the Expat in Holland editorial team — people who have themselves moved to, registered in, and dealt with the bureaucracy of the Netherlands as internationals. We write from first-hand experience of the same processes our readers are going through: opening a bank account without a BSN, registering at the gemeente, choosing a health insurer, applying the 30% ruling.
Every guide is built on primary, official sources — the Dutch government (Rijksoverheid / Government.nl), the Tax Authority (Belastingdienst), the immigration service (IND), DUO, the RDW, the consumer authority (ACM/ConsuWijzer) and the relevant regulators. We link those sources at the foot of each guide so you can verify every figure yourself. Where a figure changes year to year — tax thresholds, the 30% ruling, insurance premiums — we cite the source and date rather than asking you to take our word for it.
Each guide shows a "Reviewed" date. That is the last time we checked the content against the official sources, not just the day it was first published. When Dutch rules change — and in tax and immigration they change often — we update the affected guides and move the date forward.
We are independent. We have no affiliation with any bank, insurer, estate agent, energy company or government body, and we do not accept payment to recommend one provider over another. The site is funded by advertising, which is kept separate from our editorial recommendations. A bank or insurer cannot pay to be rated more highly.
We work hard to be accurate, but our guides are general information, not personalised legal, tax or financial advice. For decisions that matter, verify with the official source we link or a qualified professional. If you spot something that is wrong or out of date, please tell us — we take corrections seriously and will fix genuine errors quickly.