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Digidentity recognised as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Government Tax and Revenue, 2026
Digidentity insights from the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Government Tax and Revenue, 2026
As tax authorities and government agencies accelerate digital transformation, the ability to reliably identify organisations and their authorised representatives is becoming foundational. With the rollout of the EU Digital Identity Wallet, this is only set to grow in importance: business wallets will reshape how organisations authenticate and share credentials with government, across borders and at scale. We believe our recognition as a Sample Vendor for Organisation Digital Identity in the Hype Cycle™ for Government Tax and Revenue, 2026 reflects our work in building secure, scalable digital identity infrastructure for businesses interacting with government, in the Netherlands, Europe, and beyond.
What is Organisation Digital Identity?
According to Gartner, Organisation Digital Identity (ODI) refers to "a shared profile and set of verifiable credentials that represent a business, nonprofit or other legal entity. It includes capabilities to uniquely identify an entity in information systems, to share and verify entity attributes, to delegate different types of authority to individual people, and to validate transactions executed on behalf of the entity."
For Digidentity, this is not just an abstract concept. We see it reflected in the demand from organisations that need robust, auditable proof of who is authorised to act on their behalf, whether for tax filings, subsidy applications or regulatory reporting.
eHerkenning and the Dutch Tax Office (Belastingdienst)
In the Netherlands, eHerkenning is the established standard for secure business authentication with government services. The Dutch Tax Office is one of its most prominent adopters, virtually every business in the Netherlands that files taxes, requests permits, or submits regulatory information digitally relies on eHerkenning to do so. As one of the founding providers of the eHerkenning scheme, Digidentity has been part of it from day one. We have always served organisations of all sizes, from SMEs to large enterprises. Over the years, our Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution has enabled us to take on increasingly complex organisations with large user populations and strict governance requirements. Today, we count all five of the largest banks in the Netherlands among our clients, and in total serve over 250,000 users across our eHerkenning services.
Expanding access
eHerkenning was originally designed for Dutch-registered entities, but not every organisation that needs access to Dutch government services has a Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) registration.
The Tijdelijk Register Restgroepen (TRR) is an official register for businesses and organisations that cannot register in the Dutch Commercial Register but do need eHerkenning to access digital government services. The Dutch Tax Office (Belastingdienst) approached Digidentity directly to make TRR-based eHerkenning possible. We were the first provider to take this on, and while the service is now available across multiple eHerkenning suppliers under the name 'eHerkenning without KvK', Digidentity remains the dossier holder to this day.
Through PROBAS, a solution Digidentity is the sole provider of, we give diplomatic missions and international political organisations, operating under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a compliant path to Dutch digital government services.
The BES islands present a similar challenge. The Dutch government has the same obligation to provide organisations on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba with access to digital government services as it does on the mainland. BZK has approached Digidentity to develop a solution that brings these organisations into the eHerkenning ecosystem, work that is still ahead of us, but with Digidentity set to lead it.
Identity wallets and tax filing: the next step
The next step is already taken. As part of the WE BUILD Consortium, also named as a Sample Vendor in this Hype Cycle™, Digidentity is involved in Business Use Case 3 (BU3), which is about tax filing using an EU Personal or Business Wallet. This use case directly connects the capabilities of EU Digital Identity Wallets to one of the most frequent and consequential interactions between businesses and government: filing VAT declarations.
We believe business wallets are not theoretical. BU3 demonstrates that they can simplify and secure real processes that affect every organisation in Europe. The work we are doing within WE BUILD is a practical proof of this.
VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA): the wider EU picture
The VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) package, adopted by the EU in 2025, is a clear example of how domestic, international and technological trends come together to shape taxation priorities. We feel it belongs firmly within the picture: ViDA focuses on improving compliance, convenience and collection for value added tax (VAT) across the EU, and according to us, it is set to increase the need for exactly the kind of organisation identity infrastructure we build.
In our view, the package addresses three priorities:
- real-time digital reporting for cross-border trade, based on e-invoicing, which aims to reduce VAT fraud by up to €11 billion a year and cut administrative and compliance costs for EU traders by over €4.1 billion a year over 10 years
- new responsibilities for platforms in the passenger transport and short-term accommodation sectors, which will need to collect and remit VAT to tax authorities when their users do not
- a single VAT registration, so more businesses selling to consumers in another EU country can meet their VAT obligations through an online portal in one EU country
The ViDA package consists of an EU Directive, a Regulation and further implementing acts, and it will roll out progressively until January 2035. We believe developments like this reinforce the direction Gartner highlights in its analysis: robust, verifiable organisation identity is becoming central to how businesses meet their tax obligations across the EU.
Why this matters
In the Gartner analysis, we see trust, fraud prevention and regulatory compliance identified as the key drivers behind ODI adoption. These are exactly the challenges our customers face. Identity silos, outdated authorisation processes and a lack of interoperability remain real obstacles for organisations seeking to engage digitally with government. Closing those gaps, reliably, securely, and at scale, is what Digidentity does.
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Gartner, Hype Cycle for Government Tax and Revenue, 2026. By Arthur Mickoleit. [Publication date: 2 September 2026]
Organisation digital identity is moving up the agenda fast. Governments are digitising services at pace, tax authorities are raising the bar on authentication, and the EU Digital Identity Wallet is set to reshape how businesses prove who they are and who acts on their behalf. In the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Government Tax and Revenue, 2026, Digidentity is named as a Sample Vendor for Organisation Digital Identity — a space we have been building in since the early days of eHerkenning.
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