Recently, there has been an increase in requests from banks, insurance companies and IT service providers to professional associations of accountants and tax consultants, such as the NBA, in order for them to make it possible to submit and print payrolls (loonstroken, salarisslipen), annual reports (jaaropgaven) and other salary views without BSN numbers.
This is because disclosing the BSN number (Burgerservicenummer) during the consultation and application process for any financial services is contrary to the rules of the Dutch supervisory authority for personal data protection (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens - AP), according to which non-governmental institutions are not allowed to process BSNs ( for example, record, use, forward or delete) unless the law states otherwise.
The established practice of applying for financial products (such as providing a consumer loan or mortgage) often requires payrolls and annual payroll reports, which typically include a BSN number. It is planned that an alternative could be to provide clients with the ability to download the document without BSN. However, this will not be so easy to accomplish. In many accounting companies, such a workflow has long been established and automated, which means that IT specialists will have to work.
We are in a hurry to calm you down. If you received a request from a bank to provide documents without a BSN number - don't worry! You can always just neatly shade it already on the previously printed document.
Publication Date: 23.10.2020
