page_title: Tax and Customs Administration
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Tax and Customs Administration / Organization
caption_attribution_description: Grote Stern - ENI 03900053, Het Scheur, Port of Rotterdam.
context_page_description: The Tax and Customs Administration is the tax collection and customs service of the government of the Netherlands. It is part of the Ministry of Finance and is responsible for levying and collecting taxes in the Netherlands.
  Besides tax revenue, other operational areas of the Tax and Customs Administration include:
  Customs - supervising the import, export and transit of goods through the Netherlands
  Toeslagen - paying out income-related benefits for childcare, rent and health care
  Fiscal Information and Investigation Service
  The Tax and Customs Administration was founded as an organization in 1805, and falls under the political responsibility of the Minister of Finance and the State Secretary for Finance.
  In addition to the government tax service, there are many other tax authorities, such as the municipal tax authorities that deal with the collection and collection of local taxes.
context_section_description: The Tax and Customs Administration is part of the Ministry of Finance and consists of nine organizational units: Particulieren (Individuals), Midden- en kleinbedrijf (Small and medium-sized enterprises), Grote ondernemingen (Large companies), Centrale Administratieve processen (Central Administrative processes), Klantinteractie en Services (Customer interaction and Services), Informatievoorziening (Provision of information), Douane (Customs), Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst (Fiscal intelligence and investigation service) and Toeslagen (Social security).
  The Director-General (DG) and the deputy DG (pDG) are in charge of the Tax and Customs Administration. The underlying services from the primary process are managed directly by the DG. The non-primary processes are largely controlled by the pDG.
caption: Customs vessel Grote Stern in the Port of Rotterdam in 2015.
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