Introduction to our offices

Muller & Associates has been active in Curacao and On Bonaire since 2001.

We are a tax advisory firm that wants to assist you in all aspects of tax law in Curacao and the BES islands.

We handle your income tax returns. Help you and your bookkeeper or accountant prepare the financial statements and take care of the profit tax returns. In the event of death or donations, we will take care of your inheritance tax returns.

In addition, we can advise you on decreasing your tax burden in a totally legal way.

Furthermore, a specialization of our office to engage with the tax authorities in conflict situations. We supervise book investigations, write objections and conduct legal proceedings in the courts in first and second instance.

The founder of our office is Peter Muller (1964). Peter holds a masters in tax law from the University of Groningen and has been living on Curacao since 1995.

In addition to his work as a tax adviser/tax lawyer, Peter has been a teacher, editor of the Caribisch Juristenblad since 1997 and a member of the Curacao Lions since 2004.

Peter regularly publishes articles on tax law and related topics

Muller & Associates is located in a beautiful building at Schouwburgweg number 3 where we would be happy to receive you.

Muller & Associates endeavors to carry out its work at fixed rates as much as possible. This prevents misunderstandings, which means that you know in advance  what our services will cost you.

An intake interview with a maximum of half an hour is free of charge

Interested: Call Peter on 7374916 or email to info@mullertax.com

Buyer beware; or rather: miracles take time

Just a word of advice for those who want to take up residence in Curacao, or may want buy a second home here or otherwise want to invest. This is not your country of origin so things may be different here.
Let me give you some examples. A few years ago a german speaking client stated that his tax lawyer also did his bookkeeping and made his yearly financials. He was quite upset when I explained to him that I can assist his accountant by looking at the figures from a tax perspective or may be confront the accountant with obvious mistakes (everybody makes mistakes). Recently a client put forward that his issues should be addressed more swiftly. He had not taken his tax position into account for years and now we were hired to clean up the mess. We consider it our job and we are happy to do so of course.

But cleaning up needs the cooperation of the tax authorities and they on average need three quarters of a year to react to correspondence. So logically it will take over a year to settle problems.

I realize that we need to communicate this more to our non-Caribbean clients therefore I thought it wise to put this to writing.

Curacao is not the Netherlands with a nicer climate.
It is more South-America where Dutch happens to be one of the official languages and the legal language for that.

With reference to the cartoon: we are totally happy to extinguish your fiscal fires but allow for some time. We are dependent on the tax authorities. That goes for us and even so for our trusted colleagues in the field. And even better. As a fireman would probably say: prevention is better than extinguishing. So, if are are investing in Curacao please contact a competent tax lawyer before you are buried in a pile of tax assessments. Cleaning up afterwards is always more costly and is time consuming.

A REASONABLE FEE

 A man phones a lawyer and asks, "How much would you charge for just answering three simple questions?"
 The lawyer replies, "A thousand dollars."
 "A thousand dollars!" exclaims the man. "That's very expensive isn't it?"
 "It certainly is," says the lawyer. "Now, what's your third question?

So in our firm, we have long ago decided we did not want to become the object of jokes like these and we started working for fixed fees most of the time. As a tax lawyer you will always have a lot of recurring business for clients when it comes to filing income and profit tax returns on behalf of your clients and reviewing the client's company financials from a tax perspective with internal or external accountants. Our fixed fees make that clients feel comfortable working with us as they know that not every little phone call is billed. For us it gives the satisfaction of being able to establish much sounder relationships with our clients based on mutual trust. Cordiality and a sense of humor comes into play as well. We know that our clients come for us, the people you see on: www.mullertax.com and not so much for a brand name. It's the people that provide the service and not some fancy logo.

We work with standard fees when it comes to income and profit tax where the latter entails the discussions with the accountant with respect to draft financials. With respect to income tax drafting and filing of protest letter to the tax authorities is also included.




If you would like a fee offer with respect to you fiscal situation do not hesitate to contact us at: peter.muller@mullertax.com or give us a call at (**)5999 7374916

We can also assist you in finding a suitable accountant with respect to your bookkeeping services. In close cooperation with an independent accountant we may be able to lower your tax lawyer's and accountants fees with over 50% if you and your company are now being serviced by a big four firm.