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Government’s improvements in accounting system lack ambition
In a letter to the House of Representatives of 5 April 2018, the Netherlands Court of Audit states that the government’s...
Boundless growth of digital economy creates need for tighter tax supervision
With web-based international sales of goods and services now growing at an explosive rate, is the EU doing enough to keep track...
Letter from the Netherlands Court of Audit on the 2012 Haiti audit
The Netherlands Court of Audit has written to the House of Representatives to explain the role it played in the 2012 audit of...
House of Representatives: strengthen audit institutions’ position to audit banking supervision
On 13 February 2018, the Dutch House of Representatives voted in favour of a motion calling on the government to work in Europe...
Promised quality boost in higher education not yet complete
When the student grant system was replaced with a loan system, research universities and universities of applied science...
University real estate management open to improvement
Real estate management and its supervision by supervisory boards at Dutch universities are in order but could be improved. The...
Rural police teams respond slightly faster than urban police teams
On average, rural police teams respond slightly faster to reports of crimes that are likely to be solved than their...
Growing audit gap in banking supervision
President of the German and Dutch supreme audit institutions: "Worrying development". The supreme audit institutions of five...
Gift tax exemption for owner-occupied homes
About three-quarters of the people in the Netherlands who were gifted money in 2013 and 2014 to spend on their homes used it to...
Cornelis van der Werf sworn in as the Court of Audit’s new Secretary-General
Cornelis van der Werf was sworn in as the Netherlands Court of Audit’s new Secretary-General at an extraordinary Board meeting...