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Originally Posted by BlasterBates
When you say tax regime harsh, make sure you're not an employee, you really need to be Freiberufler, I've noticed Brits often end up as "employees". All German contractors without exception are Freiberufler, though some sometimes run a GmbH.
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Not quite, an applications programmer or tester will more than likely be Selbständig and will have to pay Gewerbesteuer whereas a systems programmer is considered to be like an engineer and so doesn't.
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