Thanks. We found a legal service that specials in helping people deal with gobal tax issues. We are clearly not alone in having an extreme disdain for double taxation. I must be the only U.S. Coast Guard retiree in the Netherlands with an online presence.

I have lived here with a verblijfvergunning document since 2006. What I am interested in finding out is how to avoid double taxation.

 

I have had to pay taxes here and in the US. As a retired military person I know that I have to pay taxes in the US, but it seems a tad strange that I have to pay them here as well and at a higher rate.

 

In particular I am concerned with having to pay the equivalent of Social Security here and Dutch Social insurance. In three years I will be receiving my US Social Security payments on a monthly basis.

 

 How have you dealt with this? My wife and I are currently in talks with the Belastingdienst.  I am trying to recoup what I have paid since 2006. It appears that my owning a house and living here as a retired US military person is an unusual event for the tax people here.