How to get a Dutch company's annual accounts from the KVK, and why revenue is usually missing
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The short answer
You order a Dutch company's annual accounts (jaarrekening) online from the KVK, the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce: search by name or KVK number, pick the financial year and download it. A filed document costs 3.90 euros, or 9.60 euros as a digitally certified copy, with no VAT. BVs, NVs and cooperatives must file; sole traders (eenmanszaak) do not, and partnerships (vof, cv) usually do not. What you get depends on the size class. Micro companies publish only a condensed balance sheet, small companies a condensed balance sheet with notes, medium-sized companies a profit and loss account that starts at gross operating result, and only large companies publish their turnover. Filing is due within 12 months of year end at the latest, so the newest accounts can be more than a year old.
Prices come from the KVK tariff list in force since 1 January 2026; the rules come from Book 2, Title 9 of the Dutch Civil Code and the KVK's own pages, read on 1 October 2026.
How to order a jaarrekening at the KVK
Find the right entity. A group can run several BVs under one trade name. Check which KVK number signs your contract or invoice; the KVK extract guide shows how to confirm the entity and who may sign for it.
Open the annual accounts page on kvk.nl (Producten bestellen, Jaarrekeningen) and click Bestel.
Search by company name or KVK number and select the company.
Choose the financial year and format. The KVK offers the filed PDF, an XBRL filing converted to PDF, the XBRL file itself for software, and a digitally certified PDF. Paper copies are ordered by phone.
Log in and pay. The KVK's ordering help tells you to log in with a toegangscode (a personal KVK account); if you do not have one, you request it on kvk.nl first. The document then arrives for download in your account.
You can only order accounts that were actually filed, and the KVK sells them up to seven years back. The law requires the KVK to keep filed accounts for seven years (article 2:394, paragraph 6).
What it costs
Product | Price |
|---|---|
Filed document (such as a jaarrekening), online download | 3.90 euros |
Digitally certified filed document, online download | 9.60 euros |
Overview of all filings for a company, online | 2.95 euros |
Copy of a filed document, offline | 17.25 euros |
KVK Dataservice connection (bulk access) | 1,279 euros once, then 3.90 euros per jaarrekening |
Source: KVK, annual accounts and the KVK tariff overview of 1 January 2026. KVK products are exempt from VAT. The KVK also publishes a free Open Dataset Jaarrekeningen (CC BY 4.0) of XBRL filings, but it is anonymised: no company name, no KVK number, only the first two digits of the postcode. It is useful for sector benchmarks, not for looking up a named customer.
Who must file
Title 9 of Book 2 of the Civil Code applies to the cooperative, the mutual insurance association (onderlinge waarborgmaatschappij), the NV and the BV (article 2:360). In the KVK's words, BVs and NVs "are almost always obliged" to file, while for a sole trader, a vof or a cv the obligation usually does not apply.
Two exceptions matter in practice. A vof or cv must file when every partner with unlimited liability is a foreign capital company. A foundation (stichting) or association (vereniging) that runs a business must file when that business's net turnover reaches half the small-company turnover threshold, currently 7.5 million euros, for two consecutive years.
Size classes and what each one publishes
A company falls into a class when it meets at least two of the three criteria on two consecutive balance sheet dates. The thresholds were raised by 25 percent for inflation and apply to financial years starting on or after 1 January 2024; companies were allowed to use them for 2023 as well.
Class | Total assets | Net turnover | Employees (average) | What it files at the KVK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Micro | Up to 450,000 euros | Up to 900,000 euros | Fewer than 10 | A condensed balance sheet only |
Small | Up to 7.5 million euros | Up to 15 million euros | Fewer than 50 | A condensed balance sheet with notes; no profit and loss account |
Medium-sized | Up to 25 million euros | Up to 50 million euros | Fewer than 250 | Balance sheet with notes and a profit and loss account that opens with gross operating result, plus the percentage change in net turnover |
Large | Above 25 million euros | Above 50 million euros | 250 or more | Full accounts, including turnover, and the management report |
Source: articles 2:395a, 2:396 and 2:397 of the Dutch Civil Code, Book 2, and KVK, size classes. A new company can use the class it meets on its first balance sheet date for its first two financial years.
Why revenue is usually missing
The law lets micro and small companies publish a balance sheet without a profit and loss account. That covers every company below the small thresholds, up to 15 million euros in turnover. The KVK says it plainly: for smaller companies you get "a short balance sheet with explanation". Medium-sized companies may merge turnover and costs into a single gross operating result; they only have to state by what percentage net turnover rose or fell against the year before. So in practice, only a large company's filing shows a turnover figure.
What you can still read from a small company's filing: equity, total assets, receivables, cash and debts split by maturity, year on year. The KVK suggests comparing several years to see the direction. Keep one limit in mind: the KVK checks that a filing has the required parts, not that the figures are correct.
Deadlines: how old the latest accounts can be
The board of a BV draws up the accounts within five months of year end, a term the general meeting can extend by at most five months (article 2:210). The company must publish within eight days of adoption. If the accounts are not adopted within two months after the drawing-up deadline, the board must file them unadopted, marked as such. The hard stop is article 2:394, paragraph 3: the accounts must be public "no later than twelve months after the end of the financial year".
For a company with a calendar year, the 2025 accounts can legally arrive as late as 31 December 2026. Pull a Dutch filing in the autumn and you may be reading the year before last. How to combine the accounts with other checks is in how to check a company's creditworthiness.
The Belgian contrast
Across the border the same question has a different answer. Every Belgian company's filed accounts are free to view and download at the National Bank of Belgium, back to 1999, and must be filed no later than seven months after year end. How to look up Belgian annual accounts walks through it. Belgian small companies often leave out turnover too; why Belgian revenue is often missing explains what to use instead.
If you sell in both countries, this is where the two markets diverge in tooling as well. Bizzy covers Dutch companies through Creditsafe data. The four years of figures from the filed accounts, with the filed PDF per year, come from the National Bank and exist for Belgian companies only. For a Dutch prospect, the KVK filing stays the primary document. Where accounts fit among other Dutch lead sources is in where B2B leads come from in the Netherlands.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a jaarrekening from the KVK cost? 3.90 euros per filed document as an online download, or 9.60 euros for a digitally certified copy. KVK products carry no VAT.
Can anyone order a Dutch company's annual accounts? Yes. Filed accounts are public; you order them on kvk.nl by name or KVK number, logged in with a KVK toegangscode.
Why does the jaarrekening show no turnover? Micro and small companies do not have to publish a profit and loss account, and medium-sized companies may start theirs at gross operating result. Only large companies publish turnover.
Does an eenmanszaak file annual accounts? No. Sole traders have no filing obligation, and partnerships such as a vof or cv usually do not either.
Photo: the Rapenburg in Leiden, Roger Veringmeier, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons