Getting paid on a German contract?

[darmstadt]

"Your company will probably need to register for and charge your customer german VAT"

If your agency is UK based then your customer is in the UK so no need to register for German VAT.

"You may have a job getting a German business bank account"

Just use UK bank accounts.

Ah but if you're going to be here for a long'ish time then you're probably going to want to rent a property for whichyou'll not only need to register but you'll also need a German bank account...

[whattodo]

Regarding the freelancer route. Say you stay in a contract for years, can you still go down the self employed route paying pension insurance, income tax and private health insurance? Would that be 100% legit? Or would that still leave someone potentially open to additional charges (or is it only false self employed beyond that, which is really unlikely?)


I've reckoned up what the income tax is percentage wise (say 30 odd % for someone married), what does the pension and private health insurance add on top? Another 10%?

[spudbynight]

Edit: Forgot to add, presumably there aren't dodgey AUG companies, if they've got that licence then they're doing the tax stuff by the book not offshoring things? I ask because the first one i was sent a link to was based outside of Germany.

CPM?

[whattodo]

CPM?

That wasn't the name.

From what I can make out on their website (and I could well be wrong) they get you an E101 where they're registered (at a low social security rate I guess).

[whattodo]

Income tax and social insurances calculator:

http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm

[AdrianH]

"Ah but if you're going to be here for a long'ish time then you're probably going to want to rent a property for whichyou'll not only need to register but you'll also need a German bank account"

I rented a flat in Germany using my UK account. Why would the landlord demand to be paid from a German account? As long as they get paid, they don't care where the money comes from.