Tourist tax made...
difficult
- 1,000’s of tax rules
- paper filings
- cash payments
- no insights
- for experts
easy
- unified data feed
- automated filings
- digital payments
- real-time dashboards
- for everyone
The story of Trippz?
Good question! Who in his right mind thinks about starting a business in ‘Making tourist tax easy’.....
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One night around the campfire
Actually, that’s not how it happened... Trippz is an idea born out of personal experience. Our founder Ingmar had been renting out a chalet in the Austrian mountains for a quite a while and at some point grew increasingly frustrated with the hassle and time involved around dealing with his tourist tax obligations.
Collecting guest information, keeping hold of payments, receiving monthly invoices from the municipality.....there were no great customer experiences in this process for sure!
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And then there was lunch
On a sunny June afternoon Ingmar had a chat with a friend, who back then worked at the world’s biggest booking platform. As it turned, tourist tax handling was also quite a challenge on their end. This is where the Trippz journey really took off.
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So here we are
The 30th of June 2020 Trippz was founded. Early 2024 were proudly serving the world’s biggest travel platforms from our tourist taxes Platform and offering our services to hosts and governments across the EU. And the best part? That’s still yet to come!
Meet the Founders
Different skills, different mindsets, same goal
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Ingmar Lambregts
Dealing with tourist taxes on a regular basis, Ingmar felt it could and should be so much easier. Coming from a background of Customer Experience and Technology the outline for Trippz was born. All he needed was a few companions….
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Bart Jan Holleman
Having spend all of his working life so far on the IT side of the Finance world, ex-neighbor of Ingmar (and long-time friend!) Bart Jan didn’t have to think long to jump into this entrepreneurial adventure at Trippz.
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Jeroen Sijbom
After sharing his secondary school life with Ingmar, Jeroen quickly went on a journey to Spain ánd full-stack-development. Although relocated (for now) back to the Netherlands ; whenever he is not coding you will find him on the MTB trails in the Pyrenees. Or whatever other mountains he can find.
We’re not a corporate company! Are we safe to work with?
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Everything is about (data) security
With the digitization of today's world, compliance with specific security standards is increasingly important. As Trippz we proudly are SOC1 type 2 and SOC2 type 2 certified, showcasing our commitment to meeting stiff industry standards.
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SOC1 type 2
Compliance with SOC1 means Trippz takes a proven and solid approach to handling financial information. Our efforts a presented in a detailed report, audited over time, that makes sure we manage and protect all aspects of our business, that might affect our customer' financial reporting.
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SOC2 type 2
SOC2 Type 2 is about keeping data and infrastructure well-managed and secure at Trippz. This report presents the way how we handle (data) security, availability, and privacy consistently, showing our ongoing efforts to meet the highest standards.
Our software is securely hosted in the EU
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EU only
As a company based in the Netherlands, we operate our services purely from within the EU. Our cloud-servers are all EU-based and whatever data we need to store, it is also done here.
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GDPR compliance
Although SOC2 has an extensive privacy-scope it does not cover all aspects from GDPR. As such, we made sure that on top of SOC2 we also comply with all regulations set within the GDPR framework.
Is Trippz a great place to work?
We think so, but we also asked the actual team on what they think
Interested in joining the team?
We have a great team and occasionally we have job openings.
Let us know if you want us to keep you up to date on new opportunities.
