The Dutch Cabinet has appointed top civil servant Bernard ter Haar to lead a new committee that will investigate and recommend ways to limit the use of so-called letterbox (conduit) companies to route income through the Netherlands. Ter Haar, who is also the chair of the advisory committee on the taxation of multinationals, is tasked with leading the new committee to evaluate how much tax flow-through companies pay in the Netherlands and how this relates to their contribution to the real economy, and also examine the impact of the conditional withholding tax on interest and royalties and the tightening of...