File ICP Return

In addition to the (quarterly) VAT return, your Dutch business might be required to submit the declaration of intra-Community transactions, which involve all services and supplies to other EU countries.

Do you export services or goods to companies in other EU countries? Then you are obliged to submit an ICP declaration .
ICP Filing in the Netherlands is usually done in combination with a VAT return. In the declaration, you indicate which part of your performance was directed to other EU countries. The data of those business transactions is exchanged between EU countries. The Tax and Customs Administration then checks the transactions on the basis of the ICP declaration.

Here you enter all intra-Community supplies and intra-Community services for customers who have to file a VAT return in other EU countries. You must also state the value of your own goods that you have brought to another EU country on the ICP declaration. We call this fictitious intra-Community supplies.

European legislation changes the threshold for filing ICP (Intra-Community Performance) declarations as of 1 January 2016. Where this threshold is currently at € 100,000 per quarter, this threshold is lowered to € 50,000 per quarter. This is about the total amount, excluding VAT.

As a result of the lowering of the threshold, more entrepreneurs now have to submit an ICP declaration every month.

Do you transport goods to another EU country and do you deliver these goods to an already known customer later? Then you no longer need to register in the EU country of arrival from 1/1/2020. You can specify this transfer in the ICP declaration via the new Transfer of stock on demand scheme.

The Dutch abbreviation ‘ICP’ (in Dutch is: Intracommunautaire Prestaties) stands for ICT; Intra-Community Transactions.

What kind of transactions are relevant for your ICP/ICT declaration?

You are obliged to declare ICP about your:

• intra-Community supplies

• intra-community services

• transferring own goods to another EU country

• transfer of stock on demand

You indicate intra-Community deliveries in the period of the invoice date. You indicate intra-Community services in the period in which you provided the service. You do not have to submit an ICP declaration if you have not supplied anything in a period. You transfer stock on demand in the period in which the transport of the goods started.

Compare the ICP declaration with your VAT return

The supplies and services that you state on the ICP declaration are a specification of the amount that you enter in section 3b of your VAT return. The total of the ICP declaration must therefore be equal to the amount that you enter over the same period in your VAT return under Section 3b 'Deliveries to / services in countries within the EU'.

Correct previous declaration

Have you made a mistake? You can correct this by entering the correct information in the following ICP statement. Does your customer not accept the goods and send them back? You can read how to correct your declaration at Your customer does not accept the goods.

IMPORTANT FACTS

• From 1 April 2020, it is mandatory to state the transfer of stock on demand in your ICP declaration. You do this in the section "Transfer of stock on demand". From that moment on, the notification is also retroactively mandatory for periods from 1 January 2020. Do you submit a statement per month? Then you will process the notification for the previous months in your declaration for March.

• Are the services in your customer's country taxed with 0% VAT or exempt? Then you should not mention them in this statement.