Answers to your questions about the Netherlands

If your company supplies goods or services from the Netherlands, you need one. In practice you do not apply separately: when the company is registered at the Chamber of Commerce, the details go to the Tax Administration and the VAT identification number follows by post, usually within a couple of weeks. Two things catch foreign owners out: the number arrives at your registered Dutch address, so make sure that mail actually reaches you, and you cannot charge VAT or reclaim input VAT on invoices until it has been issued.