Are you looking for legal information on how to collect a debt in the Netherlands?
There is a number of important
legal issues to consider when you are faced with a Dutch debtor who doesn't
pay.
These are, for instance:
- the validity of the payment term
- the validity of the invoice
- identifying your debtor
- sending valid demand letters
- correctly calculating the interest
- correctly charging the legal costs
- adequately agreeing on a payment arrangement
- invoking the retention of title to the unpaid goods
- reclaiming the unpaid (delivered) goods
- interrupting the statute of limitations
- reclaiming irrecoverable VAT
- filing for bankruptcy of the Dutch debtor.
Further legal info on debt collection in Holland
The following webpage, written
by Jan Willem de Groot (who is a lawyer in the Netherlands and founder of the
Dutch Law Institute) gives you a step-by-step plan to recover your debt in the
Netherlands:
https://dutch-law.com/debt-collection-netherlands.html ...
Hopefully, you'll find this
article useful.
