The Provisional Tax Assessment: The Invoice You Didn’t Ask For, But Still Have to Manage by Linda Pavan Jan 13, 2026 In the coming weeks, many of you will find a new kind of “invoice” on the mat: the Belastingdienst is sending out the voorlopige aanslag for 2026. This isn’t noise. It lands right where small business... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
Don’t Lend on a Handshake With Your Own Company by Linda Pavan Jan 12, 2026 In small businesses, cash flow is not an abstract word. It’s invoices that arrive late, payroll that doesn’t wait, VAT that comes on time whether your clients do or not. So when someone asks for “a te... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
Dividend is not a payday: The BV test you can't skip by Linda Pavan Jan 9, 2026 In a BV, dividends don’t live in the abstract. They land right in the middle of cash flow, invoices you still need to collect, supplier trust, payroll dates, VAT turns, and that one unexpected bill th... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
Your BV Won’t Save You If You Don’t Run It Like a BV by Linda Pavan Jan 8, 2026 Most small business owners start a BV for the same down-to-earth reason: protection. If a client doesn’t pay, if a project goes wrong, if the market turns, you don’t want your private life dragged int... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
Minimum Tax for Multinationals, Maximum Ripples for Small Business by Linda Pavan Jan 7, 2026 You might read “147 countries agree on a minimum tax for multinationals” and think: not my world. But the moment governments adjust tax rules for the very top, the everyday business reality for the re... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
The one meeting that makes your BV's numbers "real" by Linda Pavan Jan 6, 2026 Every year I see the same pattern: invoices are sent, cash flow is watched like a hawk, and yet the annual accounts are treated as “something for later.” Until a bank asks for the vastgestelde jaarrek... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
The 2025 Balance sheet is not “Paperwork” It's your business in one page by Linda Pavan Jan 5, 2026 On the first days of a new fiscal year, most owners are already looking forward, new quotes, new projects, new invoices. But the quiet reality is that last year is still sitting in your cash flow and ... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
Add your company details on the bill or lose the VAT later by Linda Pavan Jan 2, 2026 In real business life, “admin” isn’t a separate activity. It’s cash flow, it’s reliable numbers, it’s trust, yours and the tax office’s. And it’s risk, not the dramatic kind, but the slow kind that sh... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
Your Tax file, without chasing by Linda Pavan Jan 1, 2026 Cash flow is rarely ruined by one big mistake. More often it’s a slow leak: an assessment you didn’t expect, a discussion that drags on, an invoice you can’t collect because a contract clause is vague... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
The Private share: The small VAT trap hiding in plain sight by Linda Pavan Dec 31, 2025 Most small business owners don’t get into trouble because they’re reckless. They get into trouble because daily life and business life share the same receipts. The phone that’s “mostly for work.” The ... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
When an EU invoice Fails, it's never " Just Admin" by Linda Pavan Dec 30, 2025 The moment you send an invoice across the EU, you’re not only “doing the paperwork” you’re protecting cash flow. If the invoice can’t be processed, the payment stalls. If the VAT treatment is wrong, t... ES IT LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more
Stop sending "Pretty" invoices start sending readable ones by Linda Pavan Dec 29, 2025 The biggest invoicing risk I see right now isn’t late payers, it’s invoices that can’t be processed. When your customer’s bookkeeping is automated (and more and more of it is), a Word, Excel, or Canva... DIGITAL ES LEDGER Linda Pavan NL Read more