Set up Dutch taxes in your Shopify store

Correct VAT calculation on a Dutch Shopify store depends primarily on your VAT-registered status.

Sufio, an invoicing app for Shopify stores, uses your tax settings to generate accurate, compliant invoices for every order, so getting these settings right from the start makes bookkeeping much easier down the line.

If you're VAT-registered and want to sell to both consumers (B2C) and business customers (B2B) in different EU countries, you'll need to set up your tax settings and tax rates properly.

Last updated on July 28, 2026.

In this article, we will discuss

• Tax settings
• Tax rates in the Netherlands and the EU
  • Selling physical goods in other EU countries
    • Selling within the micro-business threshold
    • Surpassing the micro-business threshold
    • Country-specific registration
  • Selling digital goods

If you want to charge VAT to some customers in your Shopify store but not others, you have two options, depending on how you would like to display product prices.

If you're selling primarily to consumers (B2C), you may want to display product prices with VAT included.

To display your product prices including VAT while still letting business customers have VAT deducted at checkout:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to the Settings → Taxes and duties page.
2. In the Global settings section, check the Include sales tax in product price and shipping rate checkbox.
3. Click Save to apply the changes.

Optionally, you can enable dynamic tax inclusion. This Shopify feature automatically includes or excludes tax based on the customer's region and adjusts the tax rate accordingly.

To activate dynamic tax inclusion:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to Settings → Markets and click the market you want to set up tax collection for.
2. Click Duties and taxes, and in the Storefront and checkout pricing field, click Edit.
3. In the Domestic taxes field, select Dynamic taxes. Click Done.
4. Click Save to apply the changes.

If your customers are mostly businesses (B2B), you can choose to display your product prices excluding VAT.

To display your product prices excluding VAT:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to the Settings → Taxes and duties page.
2. In the Global settings section, uncheck the Include sales tax in product price and shipping rate checkbox.
3. Click Save to apply the changes.

Optionally, you can disable dynamic tax inclusion:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to Settings → Markets and click the market you want to set up tax collection for.
2. Click Duties and taxes, and in the Storefront and checkout pricing field, click Edit.
3. In the Domestic taxes field, select Don't add taxes. Click Done.
4. Click Save to apply the changes.

In the Netherlands, if your business's turnover doesn't exceed €20,000 in the current or previous calendar year, you can opt into the small businesses scheme (KOR).

If you participate in the KOR, you're exempt from VAT and don't charge VAT to your customers.

You also can't include VAT on your invoices until you register your business for VAT.

If your business is based in the Netherlands and doesn't participate in the KOR scheme, you charge VAT to some customers and not others, depending on where they're located.

As of 2026, the standard VAT rate (BTW, or Belasting over de toegevoegde waarde) in the Netherlands is 21%.

A reduced VAT rate of 9% applies to certain products, including food and soft drinks, books, newspapers, select works of art and antiques, and passenger transport.

Whether you sell physical goods or digital services to consumers in other EU countries, both count toward the same €10,000 threshold that determines which VAT rate you charge.

If you're selling goods B2B to other EU Member States, these sales are zero-rated for VAT.

This means you still list VAT on your invoices, but at a 0% rate—under the reverse-charge mechanism, the customer accounts for the VAT.

If you're selling goods B2C to other EU Member States, you do charge VAT.

The rate depends on whether you exceed the micro-business threshold.

If your total revenue from sales to other EU countries stays below €10,000 annually, you qualify for the micro-business exemption.

Under this scheme, no additional registration is required—simply include this revenue in your domestic VAT return and charge your home country's VAT rate on all EU sales.

Once you're ready, set up your tax settings in Shopify admin to reflect this. This is a one-time task.

To set VAT rates for the micro-business exemption scheme and charge your home country's VAT rate on all orders:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to the Settings → Taxes and duties page.
2. In the Regional settings section, click European Union.
3. In the Collect VAT cross-border section, click Collect VAT.
4. In the Collect across the EU window, select Collect using your home country registration.
5. Select your Country of registration and enter your VAT number. Leave this field blank if you've applied for a VAT number but don't have one yet—you can update it later once you receive it.
6. Save your changes by clicking Collect VAT.

If you ship goods to consumers in different EU countries and store or dispatch your stock from your home country, you need to charge the VAT rate of the destination country instead.

Since July 2021, you only need to file a single EU VAT return in your home country.

As a B2C seller, you can use the EU One Stop Shop (OSS) VAT return to declare all the VAT you collect across the EU.

Your domestic tax authority then forwards the collected VAT to the relevant countries.

For example, if your business is based in the Netherlands, you charge the Dutch VAT rate of 21% on orders shipped within the Netherlands. For orders shipped to other EU countries, you charge the VAT rate of the destination country.

Shopify lets you set these tax settings for individual VAT registrations, so it can automatically charge the correct VAT to your EU customers.

To set VAT rates for the OSS scheme and charge your customers' shipping country VAT rate on all orders:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to the Settings → Taxes and duties page.
2. In the Regional settings section, click European Union.
3. In the Collect VAT cross-border section, click Collect VAT.
4. In the Collect across the EU window, select Collect using a One Stop Shop (OSS) registration.
5. Select your Country of OSS registration and enter your VAT number. Leave this field blank if you've applied for a VAT number but don't have one yet—you can update it later once you receive it.
6. Save your changes by clicking Collect VAT.

You can also register for VAT in each EU country you ship to.

To add a local VAT registration number:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to the Settings → Taxes and duties page.
2. In the Regional settings section, click European Union.
3. In the Collect VAT in an EU country section, click Collect in another location.
4. Select the Registration country and enter your VAT number. Leave this field blank if you've applied for a VAT number but don't have one yet—you can update it later once you receive it.
5. Save your changes by clicking Collect VAT.
6. To add a local VAT registration number for every country you're registered in, click Collect VAT in an EU country again and confirm by clicking Collect VAT.

If you can't select the additional country you're VAT-registered in, you may need to create a shipping zone first.

1. In your Shopify admin, go to the Settings → Shipping and delivery page.
2. In the Shipping section, click the shipping profile you want to add shipping zones to.
3. In the Shipping zones section, click Add shipping zone.
4. Enter a name for the shipping zone, add the country (or countries) you're VAT-registered in using the search bar, and click Done when finished.
5. Add shipping rates to make this zone available.
6. Click Save to apply the changes.

Special rules apply when selling digital goods from the Netherlands to other EU countries.

Before applying these rules, it's important to understand exactly what qualifies as a digital service.

Digital goods or services include radio and television broadcasting services, telecommunication services, and electronically supplied services, such as online magazines, music, films, and games.

Using the internet to facilitate a sale doesn't automatically make it a digital service.

For example, selling physical goods where the order and payment are processed electronically (as through a Shopify store) doesn't count as a supply of digital services. This is a regular sale of goods and follows the standard VAT rules described above.

If you supply digital services from the Netherlands to customers in other EU countries, the same €10,000 threshold described above applies.

Your digital sales count toward that combined EU-wide total alongside your physical goods sales, not on top of it.

This means that as long as your combined turnover from goods and digital services to non-VAT-registered customers elsewhere in the EU stays below €10,000, you can keep charging Dutch VAT.

Once that combined total exceeds €10,000, you must either file the EU OSS VAT return or register for VAT in each customer's country and charge the local rate there.

The EU OSS scheme lets you report the VAT due on your goods and services in your country through a single web portal.

If you sell digital services to VAT-registered businesses, they're responsible for accounting for any VAT due in their own country under the reverse charge.

Once you've set up your tax rates correctly in your store, Sufio automatically generates valid invoices with a detailed breakdown of the VAT charged.

Invoices can be created in your customer's local language and include all the details required to comply with EU invoicing legislation.

Issuing invoices with the correct tax breakdown is important for your bookkeeping and tax purposes.

If you're selling to businesses (B2B), Sufio invoices include all the required information, as well as the VAT registration numbers (BTW or Belasting toegevoegde waarde) of your online store and your business customers.