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Pension
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I have freelanced for 1 1/2 years in munich. Is it true that if caught by the BFA i will only have to pay 10% of my earnings in back payments?
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johnRegistered User
- Joined: September 8th, 2001, 10:12 pm
Yes, if you have worked as a freelancer for less than three years (this also includes the time you have worked as a freelancer outside Germany), you can apply to pay half the normal contributions (currently 19.1%), i.e. 9.6%.
This concession is supposed to encourage more people to set up their own businesses here.
If you started working as a freelancer 18 months ago - you can pay pension contributions of 9.6% for three years from the time you started freelancing. If you were a freelancer in Italy, for example, for three years before coming to Germany, you would have to pay the full whack (19.1%) for the whole time you've been here.
How the authorities would check on what you did in Italy, is, of course, another matter.
This concession is supposed to encourage more people to set up their own businesses here.
If you started working as a freelancer 18 months ago - you can pay pension contributions of 9.6% for three years from the time you started freelancing. If you were a freelancer in Italy, for example, for three years before coming to Germany, you would have to pay the full whack (19.1%) for the whole time you've been here.
How the authorities would check on what you did in Italy, is, of course, another matter.