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be very careful
be very careful
The same thing has just happened to me. It looks like the tax man is doing 2006. If you worked for a travel company I would not be surprised.
The advice I have received is to be proactive. I have been told that it is possible to avoid prosecution as long as...
Munich
Munich
I worked in the Munich area, and it is the Landshut tax office that has contacted me.
Some of the other posters have said they were being investigated by the Bayern tax office, I'm not sure if that is the same of even if that makes any difference.
negotiations
negotiations
I'm lucky enough not to be in Germany, and I haven't been there since I worked there.
I was sent an email this week inviting me to go to a meeting in Germany where I can be questioned as the accused.
I had a lawyer ring the tax office for me just to find out why...
timesheets!
timesheets!
You get busted essentially because your client gives you up. The tax man knocks on all the doors and says 'give me the list'. And because they're paper loving Germans they do. If you're really unlucky your non-German recruitment agency actually has an agreement with the...
the tax man still cometh
the tax man still cometh
Well the tax man still cometh.
I contracted in Germany for less than year more than five years ago, and the tax man cometh for me too.
I think that at this point we can roundly reject the idea of being 'unlucky' and below the radar compared...