Koos Boer

Koos Boer

Partner

Koos Boer is one of the founders of Lubbers, Boer & Douma. He is also a professor of Tax Law at Leiden University. He specializes in Dutch income and corporation tax, as well as gift and inheritance tax.

Koos Boer has worked in the tax consultancy practice of a Big Four firm for over 12.5 years. In addition, he obtained his doctorate in 2011 at Leiden University with a study of the Anglo-American trust in Dutch income and corporation tax. He specializes in Dutch income and corporation tax, as well as gift and inheritance tax. In addition, he also calculates dividend and transfer tax. His clients range from private equity and real estate investors to high net worth individuals, public benefit organizations and (multi)national companies. He writes (second) opinions for his clients, consults with the tax authorities and conducts proceedings before the tax court.

He has been a professor of General Tax Law at Leiden University since 2013. He is also an annotator for the case law journals BNB and NTFR, editor of Fiscaal Weekblad FED and a regular contributor to Weekblad voor fiscaal recht (WFR) and Nederlandse Documentatie Fiscaal Recht (NDFR), among others. For many years he was a substitute judge in the North Holland District Court (at the time: Haarlem District Court) and later a substitute justice in the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal.

Other positions

  • Professor of tax law
  • Editor Fiscaal Weekblad FED
  • Contributor to the legal journals: WFR, BNB, NTFR and NDFR)
  • Annotator BNB and NTFR
  • Board member Tax & Customs Museum (Belasting & Douane Museum)

Featured publications

  • Public disclosure of the assets of very wealthy individuals? WFR 2025/48
  • Annotation to HR 20 December 2024, no. 23/04669, BNB 2025/39 (actual return in box 3 and second home)
  • The APV regime after the death of the contributor and the allocation to (fictitious) heirs, WFR 2023/212 (together with X.G.R. Auerbach, LL.M.)
  • Amor fati and box 3: the real estate STAK, WFR 2023/67
  • Annotation to HR 14 April 2023, no. 20/04413, BNB 2023/122 (10% criterion lucrative interest)