Investments funds would have an additional year to restructure to a “repurchase fund” in order to maintain their transparent tax status
The government on November 6, 2024, sent a Memorandum of Amendment to the 2025 Tax Plan to the lower house of Parliament that proposes giving investment funds an additional year to restructure to a “repurchase fund” in order to maintain their status as transparent for tax purposes.
The changed definition of a mutual fund applicable as of January 1, 2025, may mean that certain funds that are transparent (i.e., not independently taxable) under current law will become nontransparent (i.e., independently taxable) as of January 1, 2025. Some of these funds intend to become a repurchase fund in order to maintain their status as transparent for tax purposes, but for practical reasons cannot do so by January 1, 2025.
Read a November 2024 report prepared by the KPMG member firm in the Netherlands