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Old 24th July 2008, 06:58   #3
darmstadt
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Originally Posted by BlasterBates View Post
What are you German contractors doing about this these days. Who's paying social insurance, who isn't?
I'm not too sure what you mean by Social Insurance, do you mean pension, unemployment, etc? If so then I haven't paid it since I started contracting, in fact the BfA told me it wasn't worth it. I work as a freiberufler as well and pay UST (quarterly in advance) and your normal tax which, as you probably already know, is quite complicated. As for the other stuff, thats all done privately. However for me its probably different to many other Brit contractors as I'm resident here...
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