apply
aspects
avoid
avoiding
bilateral
case
concluded
contained
countries
country
does
double
foreign
general
include
income
international
large
netherlands
number
pertaining
place
profits
provision
provisions
resident
second
situations
source
specific
tax
taxation
taxed
taxpayers
treaties
treaty
twice
unilateral
ways
2001
Made in Holland Yearbook 2007
Friday, 01 February 2008
How is it that a small country like the Netherlands, with only 16 million inhabitants, is the 15th largest economy in the world? Passengers flying into Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will begin to understand something of the economic strength of this small country on the North Sea. Stretching deep inland, there is nothing but flat green polders, criss-crossed by a lattice of dead straight canals glittering in the morning light. One fifth of the country – the most densely populated in Western Europe and formed from the delta of the river Rhine – has been recovered from the sea. Not a strip of land is left unused.
