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I wonder if this is the same guy I know?
Saved all his tax like a good little Freiberufer, then returned to the UK (after the work in Germany dried up) fully intent on paying it. Decided, rather foolishly, that he could invest some of it as a way of making a little extra on the side, bought...
Thanks for clarifying Darmstadt. I guess that new contract in the public sector (Ministry + Money) does have other perks!
I retain roughly 70%, but that probably has something to do with the relief on private medical insurance, voluntary unemployment insurance and the fact that I get a...
Even better than that...
Even better than that...
It is a little better than that. As a Freiberufer, my Steuerberaterin calculates my tax at, and the Finanzamt confirm, a rate known as "Grundtariff" of 29.5444%. There is the so-called "Solidaritätszuschlag" on top (not sure how much that is)...
Itecs
Itecs
Careful Nigel, ITECS have never been a cast-iron solution. I was with them, briefly many years ago and am still suffering some IR fall-out from their incompetence.