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    Filing a tax return for the year of emigration or immigration

    You can file your tax return online for the year of emigration or immigration. Or you can file your tax return using the paper tax return form M.

    Filing an online tax return for the year of emigration or immigration

    Log in and click on 'Aangifte inkomstenbelasting voor belastingplichtigen die een deel van het jaar buiten Nederland wonen doen', under 'Inkomstenbelasting', 'Belastingaangifte', 'Belastingjaar’.

    (Income tax return for taxpayers living outside the Netherlands for part of the year, under Income tax, Tax return, Tax year).

    Log in to Mijn Belastingdienst

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    • Filing your tax return using a paper tax return form M

      Are you unable or unwilling to file a tax return online? If so, please use the paper tax return form M (migration).

      You can apply for the paper tax return form M below:

      If you file your tax return as an entrepreneur using a paper tax return form M, then you must also complete the M annual report. Request the annual report booklet from the Tax information line for non-resident tax issues.

    • You will be informed as soon as possible after filing your tax return

      You will usually be informed within 3 months after filing your tax return. This could be a letter stating that we have received your tax return and that you will receive an assessment as soon as possible. Or you will receive a provisional assessment.

      Please note!

      The employees of the Tax information line for non-resident tax issues cannot see when you will be informed.

      A final assessment within 3 years at the latest

      Officially, we have 3 years to process your tax return for the year of emigration or immigration. For example, we must have imposed the final income tax assessment for 2025 no later than 31 December 2028. Fortunately, this usually does not take that long.

      Have you had a tax return postponement? Then we will add the period of that postponement to the 3-year period within which we must send you a final assessment.

    Want help with your tax return for the year of emigration or immigration?

    Then you can make an appointment with an employee of the Tax Administration.