News Summary

• The Dutch tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365 in the cloud.
• Its office software will instead run on servers it controls, together with European open source tools.
• State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg set out the plan in a letter to the Dutch parliament this week.
• The change covers the Belastingdienst, Dutch Customs and the Benefits Agency.
• Email and calendars will move to the agency’s own servers in 2027.
• Open source tools for personal storage and collaboration will follow later in 20 27 and in 2028.