Gomez & Bikker Advocaten

The Parliament of Aruba is expected to vote on the approval of certain changes in the law that will broaden the scope of activities and service providers that will be subject to compliance/regulatory overview. Under the new law service providers will include amongst others: realtors, jewelers, brokers and high valued products. One or more of your current activities may be subject to compliance as early as January 1st, 2008. The attached memo will provide you with an overview.

On June 5th, 2007 The Courts of Aruba declared a civil claim of the prosecutor general (“PG”) inadmissible. The  PG demanded that her pension to be adjusted in accordance to certain…

Under the new “check-the-box”-rules, limited liability Aruba companies (“naamloze vennootschap”) (“n.v.”) and aruba axempt companies (“AVV”) have the option to opt for fiscal transparency. In that case the company will be treated…

On 27 January 2010 the Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEA) between the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in respect of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba respectively, and Spain will enter into…

The new Arua LLC has a true hybrid character. It allows for entrepreneurs to “custom-design” their corporate entity to meet current, future and changing needs.

The Dutch Kingdom was chartered by the Statute of the Dutch Kingdom (“Statuut voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden”) of 1954.  The Dutch Kingdom provides for amongst others for safeguarding fundamental…