[frenkel]

What taxes are you talking about? Vennootschapsbelasting? I believe it is a reduced rate for all businesses below a certain revenue.

[WJW]

I think he means the 30% ruling: https://www.expatica.com/nl/finance/taxes/the-dutch-30-rulin...

[tgv]

The 30% rule: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/inkomstenbelasting/...

[brianwawok]

I really have trouble telling Dutch words from hand smash in keyboards. I love it.

[WJW]

My favorite is the word "angstschreeuw" (cry/shout of fear), which is the word with the most consecutive consonants in the Dutch dictionary.

[rapnie]

"Grachtengordel" (canals) is great to practice pronunciation.

[Semaphor]

The German word is very similar: Angstschrei ;)

[AdhemarVandamme]

Along with “herfstschraalte” (autumnal skimpiness).

[gpvos]

I'm not sure that is in the dictionary. You can get more consonants with slechtstschrijvend and zachtstschrijdend, which are perfectly normal Dutch words but unlikely to end up in the dictionary (worst-writing and softest-treading). With the transliterated Russian borsjtsj you can get one more: borsjtsjschrokkend (Borscht-devouring).

[sorokod]

Angst scream?

[Semaphor]

German/Dutch "Angst" is English "fear", the English word "angst" is more "existential dread".

[sorokod]

https://www.etymonline.com/word/angst

[gpvos]

Indeed, from a specialized use in psychology of German Angst, just as Semaphor wrote

[gpvos]

Etymologically, yes. The meaning has diverged a little, so "cry of fear" is a closer translation.

[gpvos]

And to think that Dutch is the closest somewhat-large language to English... (skipping Scots (often seen as a dialect) and Frisian (really small)).