Requesting, viewing or looking up Dutch annual accounts at the KVK

The short answer

Search for the company by name or KVK number under Jaarrekeningen (annual accounts) on kvk.nl and download the document: € 3,90 per document under the tariff of 1 January 2026, up to seven years back. A micro or small BV does not make its profit and loss account public, so turnover and profit are usually missing; you mainly see a balance sheet.

Updated 30 October 2026

Key facts

How to request annual accounts

1. Go to the Jaarrekeningen page on kvk.nl and search for the company by trade name or KVK number. For a common name the number gives certainty; you find it on the company's website or letterhead.
2. Look at the legal form. A BV, NV or cooperative must file its annual accounts. A sole proprietorship does not have to according to the KVK, nor does an ordinary vof or cv (must a vof file annual accounts?); anyone searching there finds nothing.
3. Choose the financial year. If there are two documents for one financial year, the prepared and later the adopted annual accounts have been filed (art. 2:394(2) DCC). Look at the date on the document and read the most recent one.
4. Choose the version and pay. To read, the ordinary download suffices; you only need a digitally certified copy if the party to whom you submit it asks for it.
5. Open the document and first read the first page: which financial year it is, whether the annual accounts have been adopted and on what date. If it says they have not yet been adopted, you are reading a prepared version in which the figures can still change.

How far back can you search?

According to the KVK you can request annual accounts up to seven years back, counted from 1 January of the year after filing. A document filed in July 2025 therefore starts its seven years on 1 January 2026. That matches art. 2:394(6) DCC: the filed documents are kept for seven years. Annual accounts from ten years ago are therefore no longer to be expected from the KVK.

What requesting costs

These amounts come from the KVK tariff overview. The English-language overview states that the products are exempt from VAT and that the invoice contains no VAT, and also that all tariffs may change. The Jaarrekeningen page itself names no prices; so check the amount in the order screen before you pay.

If you want to read the last three financial years of a supplier, you download three documents: 3 × € 3,90 = € 11,70. Anyone who wants to assess several suppliers therefore pays per company and per financial year.

If you prepare your own annual accounts for a following financial year, the first one in your account at Jaarrekening.io is at zero euros, regardless of size class. The costs of filing with the KVK are in what does filing with the KVK cost?; the total bill in what do annual accounts cost?.

What you get, per size class

The law determines per size class what a legal entity must make public. A legal entity is micro, small or medium-sized if on two consecutive balance sheet dates it meets at least two of the three limits (art. 2:395a(1) DCC, art. 2:396(1) DCC and art. 2:397(1) DCC). In the first and second financial year only the first balance sheet date counts (art. 2:398(1) DCC).

A medium-sized or large legal entity also has a management report. It goes to the KVK or is available for inspection at the office, with a copy on request at no more than cost price (art. 2:394(4) DCC). If the report is available for inspection, the Business Register only holds a statement of that and you request the copy from the company itself. The auditor's report, or the statement why it is missing, always goes to the register (art. 2:392(1)(a) DCC and art. 2:394(4) DCC).

A legal entity may make more public than the law requires. A small BV that files its complete annual accounts therefore shows you more than the table. Conversely, a short document does not mean the rest does not exist: the shareholders often did receive a complete version.

Why the profit and loss account is often missing

In the KVK Open Dataset (2.237.553 filings, downloaded on 2 November 2026) 1,0% of the filings with a usable balance sheet have a profit and loss account with a result. That is not sloppiness. For financial year 2024, 94,5% of the balance sheets stayed within a balance sheet total of € 7.500.000, the upper limit of the balance sheet for a small legal entity, and those legal entities may keep the profit and loss account out of the register.

For anyone who wants to assess a supplier, customer or competitor, that has three consequences:

• Turnover, gross margin and profit of a BV with a small balance sheet are as a rule not found at the KVK.
• What the balance sheet does show: equity, debts, cash and how they relate to each other. From that you calculate solvency and the current ratio, as below.
• If you really want to know the turnover, ask the company itself for recent figures, for example as a condition for credit or a contract.

What the publication obligation looks like for the BV itself you can read in do I have to publish the profit and loss account?. More figures on what BVs file are at what is filed?.

Example: reading a filed balance sheet

Fictional example: Voorbeeld Installatie B.V., eight employees, net turnover € 1,4 million and therefore a small legal entity. The turnover stays out of the register; at the KVK there is only the balance sheet at 31 December 2025.

1. Solvency: equity divided by the balance sheet total, € 256.000 / € 640.000 = 40,0%. Equity therefore covers 40,0% of what is on the balance sheet.
2. Current ratio: current assets divided by current liabilities, € 430.000 / € 215.000 = 2,00. Receivables and cash together are twice as large as the debts that have to be paid within a year.
3. Working capital: current assets minus current liabilities = € 430.000 − € 215.000 = € 215.000.

For comparison: in the KVK Open Dataset the median of balance sheet class small (classified on balance sheet total alone) for financial year 2024 is 73,4% for solvency and 3,28 for the current ratio. Both the solvency and the current ratio of the example are below that median. One balance sheet is a snapshot: also look at the year before, which as a rule sits next to the figures of the financial year (art. 2:363(5) DCC), and at the sector. The comparison figures are at solvency per sector and current ratio per sector.

If you find nothing

• The legal form does not have to file. A sole proprietorship is not there, nor is an ordinary vof or cv; see who has to file the annual accounts.
• A foundation or association only files above a threshold. Its registered businesses must have a net turnover of at least € 7,5 million per year in two consecutive financial years (art. 2:360(3) DCC); the explanation is at association or foundation filing. Below that you find as a rule nothing at the KVK.
• The term is still running. A BV must make them public at the latest twelve months after the end of the financial year (art. 2:394(3) DCC). For a financial year equal to calendar year 2025 that is 31 December 2026; until then the annual accounts may legitimately not be there yet.
• The company filed a prepared version. If the annual accounts have not been adopted within two months after the end of the preparation term, the board makes the prepared annual accounts public without delay, stating that they have not yet been adopted (art. 2:394(2) DCC). So also look at documents without an adoption date.
• The subsidiary falls under the group exemption. If the parent company has issued a 403 declaration, according to the KVK the subsidiary does not have to file its own annual accounts. Then look for the group annual accounts of the parent.
• It is late or it does not happen. In a sample of 312.943 filings, 24,3% were adopted only more than twelve months after the end of the financial year; see late-adopted annual accounts. Anyone who never files does not appear in such figures. How a board remedies this: annual accounts filed late.
• The name or number is wrong. After a merger, name change or takeover, the annual accounts sometimes belong to a different KVK number. Search on the number and on the old name.

Free and anonymous: the Open Dataset

The KVK also publishes the amounts from XBRL filings in the Open Dataset Jaarrekeningen, under CC BY 4.0. It contains no names and no KVK numbers, so you cannot look up an individual company in it. You can, however, put your own balance sheet next to the percentiles per sector; those are on the figures pages.

Are you looking for your own annual accounts instead of someone else's? Then you do not start at the KVK but in your own archive and with your bookkeeper: where do I find my annual accounts?

Source and date of the figures

Source of the figures above: KVK Handelsregister Open Dataset Jaarrekeningen, processed by Jaarrekening.io, CC BY 4.0, downloaded and processed on 2 November 2026. Tariffs, search method and term: KVK pages, read on 27 October 2026 and checked on 28 October 2026.

Sources

• KVK: requesting annual accounts
• KVK: tariff overview as of 1 January 2026 (pdf)
• KVK: applying for an access code to order KVK products (updated 6 July 2026)
• KVK: how to order from the KVK
• KVK: tariffs from 1 January 2026, English overview (states exemption from VAT)
• KVK: whether or not to file annual accounts (sole proprietorship, vof, group exemption)
• KVK: Business Register Open Dataset Jaarrekeningen (CC BY 4.0)
• Art. 2:394 DCC: publication of the annual accounts (wetten.overheid.nl)
• Art. 2:395a DCC: micro legal entities, paragraph 1 (limits, two balance sheet dates) and paragraph 8
• Art. 2:396 DCC: small legal entities, paragraph 1 (limits, two balance sheet dates) and paragraph 8
• Art. 2:397 DCC: medium-sized legal entities, paragraph 1 (limits, two balance sheet dates)
• Art. 2:398 DCC: first and second financial year (paragraph 1)

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