The WBSO is a tax scheme for Research and Development purposes. Its main goal is to encourage innovation within Dutch companies. This tax benefit allows start-ups, scale-ups, and companies to reduce their research and development project’s production costs, including but not limited to labor costs, material costs, and overheads.

Submitting a WBSO form is not as straightforward as it could be due to the amount of paperwork involved, the time that needs to be spent, as well as the difficulty of the procedure itself. Moreover, WBSO’s application often requires a number of documents to be classified, formatted, and submitted which increases the overall difficulty of the process.

To make the WBSO application hassle-free, together with our partner Innovation Funding we came up with five important tips: