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Re:Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe? by littlecranky67 on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:26AM (#37173699)
You have to file those as an employee just because your employer has to do the same beauraucracy. Sounds in the end you stopped doing business :P

There is tons of examples where a solo-enterpreneur is drowned in these regulations (corporate car or even e-bike (!), calculation of privateley used square meter space in the homeoffice, separation of heating cost for your home office etc.). Don't even get me started about the beaurocracy hell if I had employees, there are so many regulations and rules.

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Re:Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe? by wink on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:51AM (#37173879)
I think you hit the nail on the head. "Solo person with a laptop" (to exaggerate) has to jump through all the hoops a "proper company" has to do (and shouldn't) - but a proper company with a low amount of people is not much more work. Because that's what I meant, and it didn't feel overly bureaucratic to me.
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