Comment by 6510

In NL, a single example would be the urencriterium (hours criterion). Ill simplify it a bit but it involves 2 criteria: 1) You spend at least 1225 hours on your business. 2) If you've been an entrepreneur for the last 5 years you must spend more time on your business than your job. If you meet it you get various tax discounts that I wont attempt to describe here. (or pay extra if you don't, depends how you look at it)

Thus the reality is that you run from left to right with your attention chopped up over 1000 things simultaneously while in theory you have to write down all time spend on each business related activity. Almost everything counts as long as you document it. If the description is to generic it is rejected.

Of course there are exceptions too! In the [corona] period 1 January 2021 tot 1 Juli 2021, if you were unable to do work, you may count 24 hours per week. It might be attractive to write things down anyway as it might add up to more than 24.

Now [say] some former employer asks you to do some work for a few months. He wants to pay you a salary as usual but you prefer freelance while the work is unrelated to your company. Do you start an extra company for it???? Will you fail to make enough hours cleaning your office and organizing your desktop??? How much will it cost you if you don't reach the magic 1225 number???

Or say the business is a moderate success, some money comes in, you might be able to survive, the feature set is complete and you ran out of bugs to fix. How spend your time now? You want to get a job but if you spend more time doing that it costs money.