Yes the Netherlands are in the list for "tax treaty"... and I had hoped it was clearly stating whether the Dutch Social Security was part of some "exclusion" as to not go through the headaches of figuring out HOW to do all those crazy steps that I have a hard time to follow... But I guess that would make my life too easy and this seems to definitely NOT be the aims of any administrations...
Unfortunately I don't think your statement is true about having paid enough taxes because it seems that the Dutch don't tax Social Security payments as much as what the US is taxing but I might be wrong...
Thanks for the answers, I will try for the nth time to tackle these entries and probably come back with even more questions ...
Stubborn old persistent tax payer.
