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The plan for Czechia, from the inside
These are all 29 steps of the Czechia journey, exactly as they appear in your personal plan — with the lead time and the costs next to them. Not a brochure: this is the file that feeds the platform. Pick another country below if you're heading elsewhere.
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- Steps
- 29
- Phases
- 5
- Official sources
- 34
- Only for your situation
- 7
Phase 1
6 steps
Orientation
Nobody stops you, and the registration certificate is voluntary — which is exactly why everyone misses the thirty-day reporting duty that is mandatory. And the treaty from 1974 is more favourable than almost everything that came after.
- 1.1
Being allowed to stay is not the same as being reported
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 1.2
Know how tax and healthcare work there
- Lead time
- an evening of research
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 1.3
Explore the region, and count the language in
- Lead time
- weeks, preferably with an exploratory trip outside summer
- Costs
- an exploratory trip is a serious cost item
- 1.4
Map out what it's going to cost
- Lead time
- 1-2 hours with the calculator
- Costs
- none
- 1.5
The family conversation
- Lead time
- weeks, not hours
- Costs
- none
- 1.6
Choose your target date
- Lead time
- decision moment
- Costs
- none
Phase 2
8 steps
Closing the Netherlands
This is where the money of this journey sits: the wage tax exemption you do apply for here, and the Czech exemption that comes on top — if you know which part of your pension falls under it.
- 2.1
Gather your basic documents
- Lead time
- 1-4 weeks
- Costs
- fees per extract, tens of euros in total
1 official source
- 2.2
Arrange the healthcare transition
- Lead time
- apply 6 weeks before departure
- Costs
- the treaty contribution replaces your Dutch premium
2 official sources
- 2.3
Know where you'll pay tax, and apply for the exemption
- Lead time
- one good conversation, then an application of weeks
- Costs
- advisory hours — depending on your situation
3 official sources
- 2.4
Deregister and tell the SVB
- Lead time
- deregistering is possible from 5 days before departure; the whole takes 4-8 weeks
- Costs
- limited — cancellation costs per contract
2 official sources
- 2.5
Partner comes along without a job of their own
- Lead time
- an evening together, then a few arrangements
- Costs
- none — the consequences are in the article
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.6
Partly staying in the Netherlands: the eight-month rule
- Lead time
- one decision, before you fix anything else
- Costs
- none
4 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.7
The house in the Netherlands: sell, let or keep
- Lead time
- one conversation with the mortgage lender and one with a tax adviser
- Costs
- advisory hours; when letting possibly an interest surcharge from the bank
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.8
Children who stay in the Netherlands: DUO, healthcare and the house
- Lead time
- an evening, and then one report a year
- Costs
- none
1 official source
Only if this applies to you
Phase 3
5 steps
The move
Within the EU there is no customs and no excise duty on the car, and yet Czechia has one clock you mustn't miss: thirty days to register the car as soon as it's there.
- 3.1
Choose your form of move and ask for quotes
- Lead time
- quotes 2-3 weeks; the drive itself a day
- Costs
- according to your moving choices
- 3.2
The car: no excise duty, but thirty days for the registration
- Lead time
- decision moment; the registration itself one visit, after the inspection
- Costs
- inspection, registration and insurance; no excise duty
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 3.3
Pet along: chip, rabies jab and the EU pet passport
- Lead time
- start at least three weeks before departure
- Costs
- per animal — chip, vaccination and passport at the vet
1 official source
Only if this applies to you
- 3.4
Arrange your first accommodation, because the report asks for an address
- Lead time
- booking can be quick; do it before you leave
- Costs
- falls under "the first months" in your budget
- 3.5
Tell the Dutch tax authority: the M return and the provisional assessment
- Lead time
- an evening
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
Phase 4
5 steps
Registration in Czechia
One mandatory report and one voluntary certificate, and you need them both: the report because the law says so, the certificate because the bank and the health insurer ask for it.
- 4.1
Report to the Foreign Police within thirty days
- Lead time
- one visit, or through your landlord
- Costs
- free
1 official source
- 4.2
Apply for the registration certificate — voluntary, but you need it
- Lead time
- an appointment, the issue weeks
- Costs
- 200 crowns fee
1 official source
- 4.3
Register your S1 with a Czech health insurer
- Lead time
- one visit to the insurer of your choice
- Costs
- none
1 official source
- 4.4
Open an account and arrange your Czech identity for the authorities
- Lead time
- days
- Costs
- account costs per month
1 official source
- 4.5
Choose a GP, before you need one
- Lead time
- days to weeks
- Costs
- none
Phase 5
5 steps
Arrival
The chain is complete. What remains is one thing you don't have to do — the driving licence — and one thing that is simpler here than almost anywhere: buying.
- 5.1
The driving licence: nothing to exchange
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 5.2
Living and buying: no restriction, but the land registry check
- Lead time
- weeks to months
- Costs
- notary or lawyer, and the entry in the land registry
1 official source
- 5.3
After five years: permanent residence
- Lead time
- one application, after five years
- Costs
- fees
1 official source
- 5.4
School for the children
- Lead time
- enrolment runs per municipality
- Costs
- public education is free; books, food and outings are not
Only if this applies to you
- 5.5
Landed
- Lead time
- the moment itself
- Costs
- none
7 of these steps aren't always there. They appear only when your answers call them up — a pet, a car, children staying behind. That's the difference between a plan and a checklist in which you have to work out yourself what applies.
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This is what one step of your plan looks like
Not a brochure but the real thing: this is one of the steps of the Czechia journey, exactly as it appears in your personal step-by-step plan — with the deadlines, the counters and the sources.
Step 2.3 of your plan
Know where you'll pay tax, and apply for the exemption
- Lead time
- one good conversation, then an application of weeks
- Costs
- advisory hours — depending on your situation
The treaty places your occupational pension and your AOW exclusively with Czechia. Apply to the Dutch tax authority for the wage tax exemption with a Czech certificate of residence, otherwise your fund keeps withholding and you only get it back after a year.
The government pension is the exception: the Netherlands may tax that, unless you're a resident and a national of Czechia.
On the Czech side the law exempts regularly paid pensions from a mandatory scheme up to thirty-six times the minimum wage — in 2026 that is 806,400 crowns a year, because the minimum wage stands at 22,400 crowns. Your AOW falls under that. Whether your Dutch occupational pension counts as a "foreign mandatory insurance of the same kind" is the question your tax adviser has to answer; whatever comes out above the limit falls into the brackets of fifteen and twenty-three percent.
This is step 2.3 of 29. The other 28 are ready for you — each with the same sources, the same counters and a planning that watches your dates.
And what you don't see here
This page shows the content. What a page can't show is the work the platform does for you afterwards:
- The clocks that start running the moment you begin, and a nudge at the moment something is asked of you — not earlier.
- Your documents in one place, with their expiry dates watched, so nothing lapses while you wait for something else.
- The ticking off, together with your partner on the same journey.
- The steps that drop out or appear based on your answers, so your plan holds only what really applies to you.
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