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What the fuck did I miss

600k is not a lot of money for a software team or for AI though.

People who can’t figure out things (and as you noticed it’s very hard), pay the most taxes of anyone in Europe, while people who earn enough can hire a specialist that tells them how to profit from deductibles, subsidies and fake self employment etc. The tax services routinely issue fines that were deemed illegal multiple times by judges in the past and it’s up to their victims to protest against this.

Are you sure you’re not Eastern European?

So the thing is that for a recent hire most companies, especially small ones, don’t know about the supplementary days. That makes for an awkward conversation immediately when you start.

The only real source is a government website with no good law citations that says ambiguous shit, and the actual law, available in Dutch or French, but the legal text is very hard since it’s a modification to an older royal decree, so you have to read the two together.

Ask me how I know. Capital of the EU my ass.

Your leave policies are a mess for people just moving here from other parts of the EU. You can end up with practically no leave for a year.