All sole proprietors can shield address in Business Register

What changes?

Are you a sole proprietor? Are you a self-employed professional (zzp’er)? You can hide your business address in the Business Register. To do so you must register an alternative postal address, for instance a P.O. Box. Your business address can then only be viewed by organisations that are legally permitted to do so. For example, the Netherlands Tax Administration, lawyers, and bailiffs.

Sole proprietors can already shield address

Are you a sole proprietor or do you want to register your sole proprietorship in the Business Register? KVK already offers the option of shielding your visiting address. In order to this, you will need to register a postal address that is different from your home and visiting address. KVK is anticipating the new legislation.

Decentralised political public office holders

Decentralised political public officeholders and their partners/domestic partners with their own businesses can also already shield their visiting address in the Business Register.

Telephone numbers already shielded

KVK already shields telephone numbers of entrepreneurs who are registered in the Business Register (in Dutch).

For whom?

• sole proprietors

When?

This change in the Business Register decree (Handelsregisterbesluit) is expected to take effect on 1 October 2025.

Please note: The effective date of this measure is not yet final. Entry into force is subject to its passing through the upper and lower houses of parliament or proclamation of the Order in Council (Algemene Maatregel van Bestuur, AMvB) or ministerial decree and publication in the Staatsblad or Staatscourant (Government Gazette, in Dutch).