Taxmo's interface is now natively available in nine languages. On taxmo.nl you can use it in Dutch, English, German, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, and now Turkish and Arabic, with a full right-to-left layout for Arabic. French is available on taxmo.be. Here is what that means for how you run your bookkeeping and file your BTW.
What Launched: A Fully Native Interface in Nine Languages
Taxmo now runs end to end in nine languages across its two sites: Dutch, English, German, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, and now Turkish and Arabic on taxmo.nl, and French on taxmo.be. This is not a machine-translated overlay on a Dutch screen. Every menu, button, form label, and help text is written natively in each language.
The translation reaches the documents you send to clients too. Invoices, quotes, and the emails that carry them are generated in your chosen language, so a Turkish-speaking plumber can invoice in Turkish and an Arabic-speaking consultant can send quotes in Arabic.
The AI tax advisor answers in your language as well. Ask a question about a deductible expense or a BTW rate and you get a reply in the language you are working in, not a translated afterthought.
For Arabic, Taxmo uses a full right-to-left (RTL) layout: text, menus, and tables flow from right to left, while numbers, amounts, and dates stay in Western digits so they line up with your bank statements, invoices, and the Belastingdienst.
Why Turkish and Arabic
There are sizeable Turkish-speaking and Arabic-speaking entrepreneur communities in the Netherlands. Many of them run an eenmanszaak or work as a ZZP'er: shops, salons, construction, catering, cleaning, consulting, and freelance trades of every kind.
These entrepreneurs handle the same obligations as everyone else: keeping their books in order, tracking receipts, and filing BTW on time. Doing that in a second or third language adds friction to work that is already detailed and deadline-driven.
We think bookkeeping and BTW filing should be available in the language you think in. Turkish and Arabic are not an afterthought bolted onto the edge of the product. They are first-class languages, tested across the whole app, from the first login to the final BTW-aangifte.
What Is Covered, End to End
The language you pick applies across the whole workflow, not just the marketing pages:
- The dashboard and every screen you use day to day
- The BTW-aangifte, filed to the Belastingdienst via Digipoort, with the rubriek labels explained in your language
- The income-tax wizard that walks you through your yearly return
- Receipt scanning via WhatsApp: photograph a receipt, send it, and Taxmo reads and books it
- Guides and calculators that explain the rules and estimate what you owe
In other words, from adding your first expense to submitting your return, you stay in one language the whole way through.
How to Switch Your Language
Switching is immediate and there is nothing to install:
- Use the language picker in the top navigation to change languages on the spot
- Or open Taxmo with a direct link: ?lang=tr for Turkish or ?lang=ar for Arabic, appended to any Taxmo URL
Your choice is saved as a per-account preference and synced across devices, so if you set Arabic on your laptop it will already be Arabic when you open Taxmo on your phone. You can change it again at any time.
What Stays in Dutch, on Purpose
A handful of terms stay in Dutch in every language, and that is a deliberate choice.
Official terms like BTW, KOR, Belastingdienst, and rubriek are kept verbatim. These are the exact words the Belastingdienst uses on its forms, letters, and portal. If your BTW-aangifte asks you to fill in a rubriek, Taxmo calls it a rubriek too.
Keeping these terms in Dutch means that when you deal with the Belastingdienst directly, read an official letter, or talk to an accountant, you already recognise the vocabulary. You learn the terms once, in the form the tax authority actually uses, instead of learning a translation you would then have to translate back.
