Timeline for Approximate cost of bookkeeping for contractor in Western Europe?
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| Sep 11, 2013 at 15:51 | vote | accept | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | ||
| Sep 10, 2013 at 22:49 | history | edited | feklee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 10, 2013 at 20:18 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | Could you merge your comment about Freiberufler into your answer? | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 12:30 | history | edited | feklee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 10, 2013 at 12:27 | comment | added | feklee | @ŁukaszLech That's correct, as a freelancer you enjoy a lot of freedom here. You don't need to pay for social security, and you can freely chose between public and private health insurance. Note that if you stay longer than some months (six, three?) in another EU country, then you have to change residency. By the way, some months ago I was in Spain, and there things are different, indeed mandating the use of a bookkeeper or so I was told. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 12:11 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | @feeklee OK, so if I've understood correctly, you can be contractor in Germany, without registering company, and therefore you don't have to fill extra declarations monthly etc., and things are easy enough to cope with to manage that without bookkeeper? Please note German is not my native language, so going through laws is difficult for me... | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 11:54 | comment | added | feklee | @ŁukaszLech As said before, I don't have to pay any book keeping company. As a freelancer in Germany, I only have to pay taxes. There are no additional mandatory costs. If you want to found a company here, then things are different, but that's not freelancing anymore. Freelancers ("Freiberufler") have a special status in Germany. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 11:50 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | It isn't about the problems with Poland but problems with German, I was warned that being in Germany more than 6 monts in year, I'd have to register firma in Germany. I think it's violation of EU laws, but anyway... The question was about costs of bookkeeping in Germany, not about costs of bookkeeping in Poland for contractors working abroad. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 11:43 | comment | added | feklee | @ŁukaszLech I don't understand. If I had a freelance job in France, for example, then I wouldn't have to hire any bookkeeping company. I would just continue doing bookkeeping as required by the German department of finance. In that case it would mean keeping track of payments that I receive from my French client. A bookkeeping company could not help me with that, and so I have never used one. Only once I have used a tax attorney, but that was because of some exceptionally complex issues related to past employment. Perhaps in Poland things are different? | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 11:36 | comment | added | Cjxcz Odjcayrwl | The difference is, you'd have to hire German, not Polish bookkeeping company, and the prices would be other | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 11:28 | history | answered | feklee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |