Reasons

At both federal and state level, there are various authorities that have written the issue of "starting a business" on their flags. In addition to the start-up portal of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy, the starter centers NRW are particularly important points of contact when it comes to the issue of start-ups in North Rhine-Westphalia. The starter Centers NRW support you in your path to independence and offer free and individual advice.

Find out which Starter Center Center is responsible for you in the here.

In the Starter Center form server, you will find forms for various aspects of business start-ups. You enter your data into a so-called metaform, a software that guides you through the pitfalls of the formal foundation process. This automatically creates the required forms for the individual authorities. You only need to print, sign and send them to the appropriate locations by post (if necessary. with other facilities). In addition, important addresses and leaflets for the various trades are stored and can also be printed out.

Foreign companies that want to open a branch in Germany, for example, can also contact Germany Trade & Invest. The company markets Germany as a business and technology location abroad, informs German companies about foreign markets and accompanies foreign companies in the settlement in Germany.

You should be concerned about the following topics before you register for the company:

• Business idea
• Business plan
• Corporate financing and funding programmes
• Commercial or freelance activities
• Legal form
• Location question
• Book Management
• Bogus self-employment
• Taxes
• Insurance/pensions

The creation of a business plan is helpful in setting up the company. This is the question addressed how you want to achieve this goal? A well developed business plan helps to arrange your own goals and ideas and thus increases the chances of success. You wouldn't want to build a house without first setting a plan, would you?

Most of the activities are covered by commercial activity and must therefore be applied to the local trade or Public Affairs Office are pending. A trade is any economic activity which is carried out on its own account, in its own responsibility and in the long term with the intention of profit making, with the exception of freelance or agricultural activity.

Under the Income Tax Act § 18 (1) Self-employed scientific, artistic, literary, teaching or educational activities belong to the freelance activity, such as

• Doctors,
• Attorneys at law,
• Engineers,
• Architects,
• Naturopath,
• Journalists,
• Interpreters, translators.

The freelancers must sign their trade not in the Office, but contact directly to "your" tax, to specify their freelance work there.

The assessment, which work as a freelance work is classified, is not always easy, therefore should get an advance information in case of doubt from your tax office.

Freelancers generally enjoy some advantages over the trader:

• You don't need an expensive commercial accounting. Just a (relatively) simple revenue surplus calculation.
• You are not a compulsory member of a Chamber of Commerce and industry (or other class professional or industry associations) and can save the associated contribution payments.
• They have to pay even then no trade tax if they make profit more than 24,500 euros per year.

For some professions such as However, pharmacists, lawyers and architects are required to become members of a chamber.

Even with health insurance, there are special cases in the professions. So have to artists or writers of the Künstlersozialkasse sick sure. Further information can be found here and in the download area.

The question of the location should also be well chosen. Do I run my business from home or do I rent my own office space? The right location can be crucial to the success of your business.

Detailed information on the topic "Location" can be found here.

A self-employed person is a dependent employment relationship that is concluded between an independent entrepreneur and a client. With this bogus independence, social security requirements are circumvented, which in turn can lead to criminal penalties. The apparent independence could be relevant in particular for freelance employees and individual entrepreneurs with only one or a few clients. Whether there is a false independence, the German Pension Insurance Confederation is examining a so-called status determination procedure. 

You can find detailed information on the topic "Bogus independence" here.