As of January 2009, Dutch taxes on packaging will be changed for simplification purposes, the Dutch Ministerie van Financien (finance ministry) announced this month. Tax rates will be halved to 8 per cent and a similar rate will be applied to both primary packaging and transport packaging. Reusable items like pallets, trolleys and crates will no longer be defined as packaging and will fall outside the scope of the tax.rnOther types of packaging such as staples and labels will not have to be identified separately, but will be counted within the main packaging. A lower rate will apply to beverage packaging (for mineral water, beer and soft drinks) with a deposit scheme.
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