Belgium vs Netherlands: Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate

Belgium
-7.5 Percentage of taxable income
in 2025
Netherlands
-7.12 Percentage of taxable income
in 2025
Belgium rank
26th
Netherlands rank
24th

Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate over time

  • Belgium
  • Netherlands
-7.6-7.4-7.2-7201920222025

How they compare

Netherlands currently reports -7.12 Percentage of taxable income against -7.5 Percentage of taxable income in Belgium, a difference of 0.38 Percentage of taxable income.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 7 shared years of data; in 2019 it was Belgium ahead.

Belgium ranks 26th and Netherlands ranks 24th of 50 countries.

Across the 2 decades both report, Belgium averaged higher in 1 and Netherlands in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Belgium Netherlands Difference Ahead
2010s -7.04 Percentage of taxable income -7.2 Percentage of taxable income 0.16 Percentage of taxable income Belgium
2020s -7.48 Percentage of taxable income -7.15 Percentage of taxable income 0.3317 Percentage of taxable income Netherlands

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate, Belgium or Netherlands?
Netherlands, at -7.12 Percentage of taxable income against -7.5 Percentage of taxable income in Belgium as of 2025.
What is the difference in effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate between Belgium and Netherlands?
0.38 Percentage of taxable income, with Netherlands ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Belgium and Netherlands?
7 years are reported by both, from 2019 to 2025.
How do Belgium and Netherlands rank globally for effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - corporate?
Belgium ranks 26th and Netherlands ranks 24th of 50 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate tax statistics — Implicit subsidy (EATR). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate tax statistics — Implicit subsidy (EATR)
Unit
Percentage of taxable income
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
55 places, 385 data points, 2019–2025
Last refreshed

This table reports synthetic tax policy indicators that capture the effect of expenditure-based R&D tax incentives on firms’ investment costs: The EATR for R&D measures the impact of taxation on R&D investments that earn an economic profit. the user cost of capital for R&D measures the return that a firm needs to realise on an R&D investment before tax to offset all costs and taxes that arise from the investment, making zero economic profit. Further methodological information is available in the explanatory annex.