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View the solutions for your debts

How you resolve debts depends partly on the legal structure of your company. See what solutions are available for your business.

Finding your own solutions

When times are temporarily tough financially, you can solve debts yourself. KVK research (in Dutch) shows that entrepreneurs do all sorts of things to solve debts themselves. For example, using savings, taking out a loan from family, taking a paid job, or asking for payment deferral.

Liability for debts

You may only be liable for debts with your business capital, or only with your private capital. In some cases, you can be liable with both. For example, if you have a bv (private limited company) and you have co-signed as a private individual on certain matters. You can also have more than one legal structure, for instance an eenmanszaak (sole proprietorship) and a bv. There, too, you may find yourself in a situation where you are liable both personally and as a business.

Solving debts per legal structure

View the solutions for solving your debts per Dutch legal structure.

Staff

Do you have staff? Talk with your staff and involve them in finding solutions. Maybe you want to ask your staff for a salary reduction or you are thinking of reorganisation. In extreme cases, you may have to dismiss staff in order to continue your business. Firing staff comes with conditions and costs.

Stopping

After analysing your debts, you may also come to the conclusion that ending your business is the best solution for you. You can (perhaps partly) settle your debts from the proceeds of the sale of your company's assets. Read about what you need to do to end your business.

Help

You do not have to solve your debts alone. Read who you can turn to for help in step 4.

KVK Advice Team

Do you want to know more about debt restructuring schemes? Contact the advisers of the KVK Advice Team. They listen to you and can refer you to organisations in the KVK network. Call free: 088 585 22 22.