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I'm seeing a bit of the employer side burocracy: Currently, I have a weird job. I work in Germany, but am payed from abroad. My employer would have to pay Germa
by captainmuon 9y ago
I'm seeing a bit of the employer side burocracy: Currently, I have a weird job. I work in Germany, but am payed from abroad. My employer would have to pay German social insurances, but can't/won't deal with that. So they give me the cash and I hand it to the insurances, and do the paperwork.
It was quite a steep learning curve: registering a company with the health insurance agency, calculating the different contributions (health, unemployment, care, pension, ...), and making monthly reports.
Was it hard? Hell yes, it was horrible. But that's just because I hate paperwork. Everything has its internal logic, it's entirely learnable in a few afternoons. Most importantly, the burocracy was incredibly patient with me, even though I screwed up a few times. I overpaid, and realised months later, but they will still pay me back. The thing is, they want you to fill out everything correctly, they have no interest in you failing or do so, so you get support. And many many people have gone through that same process before.
Also, I think in an actual business, I'd just pay somebody to deal with these things.
- icebraining 9y agoOh, man, the envy. In Portugal, I just paid a 200€ fine for failing to pay 20€ in taxes - which I didn't owe, I just marked the wrong box on the form.
- captainmuon 9y agoThey are surprizingly chill here :-) If you don't file taxes (as a regular employee), you will get increasingly sternly worded requests to do so... and after a few months they say "ok whatever", and just estimate your taxes conservatively. Of course that would be stupid for you, because you'd leave money (deductions) on the table. It is actually hard to accidentially evade taxes. If you make an honest mistake, and come clean, you are not likely to be fined. Maybe it helps that we pay everything (tax, insurance) in advance, and largely automatically (as salaried employees).