Belgium vs Netherlands: Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate
Effective tax rates for expenditure based tax incentives - Corporate over time
- Belgium
- Netherlands
How they compare
Netherlands currently reports 16.73 Percentage of taxable income against 15.32 Percentage of taxable income in Belgium, a difference of 1.41 Percentage of taxable income.
That makes Netherlands's figure about 1.1 times Belgium's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 7 shared years of data; in 2019 it was Belgium ahead.
Belgium ranks 24th and Netherlands ranks 23rd 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 | 19.26 Percentage of taxable income | 15.92 Percentage of taxable income | 3.34 Percentage of taxable income | Belgium |
| 2020s | 15.34 Percentage of taxable income | 16.46 Percentage of taxable income | 1.12 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 16.73 Percentage of taxable income against 15.32 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?
- 1.41 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 24th and Netherlands ranks 23rd 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 — Effective average tax rate. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
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.