New owner? New KVK number!

  • Edited 6 February 2025
  • 1 min

When a company changes hands, it also gets a new KVK number. As soon as you report that you are taking over or selling a company, KVK arranges the new number.

All businesses get a KVK number when they register with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce. When a business is transferred, it is given a new KVK number and VAT ID in order to clearly signal the change of ownership.

When an entire business is transferred to another natural person, a VOF, CV, maatschap, or legal entity (such as a BV or NV), it is given a new KVK number. When, for example, one of the registered partners in a vennootschap onder firma (VOF, general partnership) continues running the business as an eenmanszaak (sole proprietorship), it is given a new KVK number.

Make your new KVK number known

Remember to publish your new KVK number on your website and to include it on all your business correspondence. For example, letters, emails, orders, invoices, and quotations. It is mandatory to change the old nuber in all places it is mentioned as soon as you have a new number

Exceptions

In some cases, a business will not be given a new KVK number, such as when an NV is converted into a BV. Or if a legal entity in formation is converted into a legal entity. KVK does not issue new KVK numbers after share transfers either.