Built for expats in the Netherlands

Your Dutch documents, actually explained.

Moving to the Netherlands means a stream of Dutch official documents — payslips, tax assessments, allowance decisions. DutchDecoded explains each one in plain English: every number, every deadline, and exactly what you need to do.

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2 documents free · €24.99/year after

Your payslip explained

Payslip at a glance

You earned €4,850 gross this month. After tax and deductions your take-home is €3,210 net. No anomalies detected.

30% ruling

The tax-free allowance of €1,455 is ~30% of gross — this looks correct.

What you need to do

Nothing required. File this payslip and your records are up to date.

Example output — your real payslip decoded in ~15 seconds

1.5M+

Foreign nationals in the Netherlands receiving Dutch-only official documents each year

6 weeks

The bezwaar window to appeal a tax assessment — miss it and it's gone permanently

€170/yr

What Blue Umbrella charges just to forward and translate your tax letters. DutchDecoded costs €24.99.

How it works

01

Upload your document

Drop a PDF or photo of your loonstrook or Belastingdienst letter. It never leaves your browser session.

02

AI reads every line

Trained specifically on Dutch payslips and tax authority letters — not a generic translation engine that misses what matters.

03

Get your plain-English breakdown

Every number explained, every deadline flagged, and a clear verdict: what you need to do and by when.

Why DutchDecoded, not ChatGPT?

Generic AI translates words. It won't tell you this letter is a final demand, that your 6-week appeal window is closing, or that your loonheffingskorting will cause a year-end tax bill.

Deadlines extracted, urgency calibrated

An aanmaning (final demand) needs action today. A voorlopige aanslag needs payment by a date. A teruggaaf needs nothing. DutchDecoded tells you which one you're holding — and flags the 6-week bezwaar window before it closes.

30% ruling & loonheffingskorting

The two payslip traps that cost expats money at year-end. DutchDecoded checks both on every loonstrook and flags anything that looks off.

Clear action verdict on every document

Every result ends with exactly what you need to do — amount, deadline, where to pay — or a confident "nothing required, file this safely."

Your document is never stored

Processed in memory, discarded immediately. No server ever holds your payslip or tax letter. GDPR by design, not by policy.

Supported documents

Loonstrook (payslip)Belastingdienst letterJaaropgaaf — coming soon

Stop guessing. Start knowing.

2 documents free. No card required. Your first explanation in under 20 seconds.

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