who founded his own company, must comply with a series of registration procedures and regulatory requirements.
Trade Office
Every business entity (ie, any company that is designed to last for profit ") must be competent will trade office (mayor, municipality) applied. Necessary for this is only an identity card or passport and any special permits and certificates (for example, craft card, concessions, etc.). At the trade office must not be registered: the professions (eg doctors, architects, accountants, lawyers, artists, writers) agriculture and forestry. Freelancers register directly with the tax office.
with the business registration are usually the following authorities are automatically informed about it:
- The tax office
- The Chamber of
- The BG
- Industry and Commerce
- the Statistical State Office
- The commercial register (Amtsgericht)
It is recommended anyway to contact these authorities themselves contact in order to speed up the registration procedures and clarify any issues directly to.
Register
If it is in their operation to a company within the meaning of the Commercial Code, to let him enter the local court in the commercial register and authenticate those records by a notary.
The registration and submission of documents to be carried out electronically. For Founders of the notary will do this. For further communications they need this if your company is, then do it yourself.
tax office
The tax office is informed of business activities from the trade office. You will then receive from the tax office a "Questionnaire for tax purposes. Based on their Angagen them the tax office will assign a control number and fix any advance payments. Please answer these questions carefully and appreciate their sales and profit expectations realistically. Information is important for the tax correct classification of their activities by the tax office. By the way: Recipients of the foundation grant must submit to the tax office their Businnesplan.
Practice of a profession, they must notify within one month of the commencement of the tax office. Responsibility lies with the tax office in the district where they reside. Suffice it an informal registration. You will then also a questionnaire on tax collection. Again, please answer these questions carefully and appreciate their sales and profit expectations realistically. Information is important for the tax correct classification of their activities by the tax office.
Employment Agency
If they employ social security staff, 400-Euro-workers or apprentices, they need a holding number. Applied for the eight-digit number in the operation number service of the Federal Employment Agency. A request by telephone, in writing, by fax or e-mail.
It is the basis for reporting on social security. With it, employees are at the health insurance on-logged and billed as well as the contributions to the health, pension and unemployment insurance. It is also for farm work permits or accident reports required at the trade association.
Even if they have a already incorporate existing operations, they must apply for a new operating point, since it is bound to the owners of every company. At the same time you also get a "key part" of the type of insurable activities they need to register for the trade association.
BG
trade associations are the statutory accident insurance and for all enterprises, institutions and professionals responsible if it is not a responsibility of the professional agricultural cooperatives or accident insurance institutions of the public sector. A company who opened, should be with the relevant trade associations to get in touch and find out if insurance is compulsory.
entrepreneurs who do not employ any employees, are not insurance in any case. A voluntary insurance with the insurance association can be useful in order to insure against the consequences of occupational accidents and diseases.
The membership of the cooperative is required when the plant employs workers.
the competent professional association should be informed within one week of business registration or recording of the self-employed. Although it is common practice that the trade office will send the registration of a trade to the trade association.
Check with the German statutory accident insurance.
Health Department
for start-ups in the food service needs such as an instruction of the health department or a designated doctor took place after the Infection Protection Act. This certificate is presented to the business registration and must not be older than three months.
For start-ups in catering or childcare, the health department or the Labour Inspectorate, for example, the hygiene standards of their premises . Check They must also find an official certificate of confirmation of Industry and Commerce about participating in a seminar for hygiene and food handling show.
If you run a catering business or sell food, also require their employees a clearance certificate from the doctor's office.
Professional activities, such as the keeping of dental offices, medical offices and clinics of other health professionals, in which invasive activities are exercised either be inspected by the hygienic disinfection of Health or the competent professional association.
medical practitioners and health practitioners need a permit from the competent health authority.
Building Authority
If they want to use space that had been used differently in future as their premises must apply to a change of use to the competent building authority. The planning of industrial buildings should also be coordinated in advance with the Building Department.
Gewerbeaufsichtsamt
oversee the Labour Inspectorate of the Federal countries the observance of provisions of labor, environmental and consumer protection. Depending on the province they are also known as Office of Occupational Safety or designated State Environmental Office. Their task is to permit, subject to approval or commercial throughout the Betreibsdauer to oversee compliance with the applicable regulations for that sector and obligations. Check the appropriate time, before the opening of its business, whether they intend to meet the business premises and facilities with the statutory provisions.
Environment Agency
Check the requirements of the Environment Agency. The statutory provisions, as the Federal Pollution Control Act, for example for night driving traffic from residential areas in restaurants are often underestimated, as the cost of meeting environmental requirements.
social
Health Insurance:
self-employed must be either in the statutory health insurance, or in one of the private health insurance members. Notify your insurance company about their future self-employment.
pension:
It may be useful to take out voluntary insurance under the statutory pension insurance. For some self-employed persons insurance requirement in the statutory scheme. These include artisans, Midwives, teachers, artists and publicists. A list of insurable self-employed can be found in § 2 Social Code. If you get the appropriate health insurance / compensation fund / pension on the employment of staff with them.
apparent self:
If not sure whether they are seemingly independent, they can do so through the status determination procedure of the German pension insurance can clarify federal government.
KSK:
The KSK is the statutory pension, health and nursing care for self Who are the artists and journalists. Met criteria for inclusion in the KSK, there must also be insured.
utilities
As required, they should conclude with the relevant utility companies (for example, municipal utilities, power stations etc.) contracts for water, electricity, gas, etc.. The same applies to the disposal (eg sewage and waste disposal).
special permits
is for different trades a special permit.
Crafts:
The Master constraint is limited to 41 rzulassungspflichtige crafts. All other 53 trades are free. Their independent exercise requires no qualification.
- With a few exceptions (six occupations) could also experienced journeymen in the compulsory approval crafts their own business, provided they have six years work experience in crafts, including four years in a managerial position.
- The owner principle was abolished. Companies engaged in a registrable trade can be maintained by all sole proprietorships or partnerships that set a master as a manager.
- For engineers, university graduates and state certified technicians access to the trade was facilitated.
-New Handwerkssunternehmen is in the first four years after the start-up grant a graduated exemption from the Chamber of contributions. The so-called small craft law amendment the independent execution of simple craft activities has been facilitated. However, simple activities may not be combined, they represent a substantial share of a trade.
industry:
plants with specific environmental conditions must be approved by the Federal Pollution Control Act.
Retail:
For different trade areas special certificates of competence are needed.
restaurants and hotels:
is required a permit, which they will receive a one-day training at the competent Chamber of Trade Licensing Office.
security industry:
condition for which the trade office to grant permission repute, required resources or assets and a 40-hour information for employees, a 80-hour information for self through the CCI.
industry to:
The business-like Transport of passengers by buses, cars and TRAX is subject to approval. The concessions granted by the competent Trade Licensing Office or Regional Council.
Travel and Tourism: This includes
traders who have no fixed place of business. A required travel trade Arte is issued by the competent Trade Licensing Office.
freelancers
Who are some "regulated" free professions is one (as lawyers, doctors, accountants), requires regulatory approval, to make themselves independent. To the "unregulated" free professions (for example, artists, writers, scientists) It requires no special approval.
For a number of other commercial activities a special permit is required (for example, review of personal and economic reliability of the Trade Licensing Office):
- Installation of play equipment with a chance to win, events of other games to win, game rooms
- real estate brokers, investment brokers, builders and Baubetreuer
- auctioneer, mortgage brokers, mortgage lenders
- driving schools, haulage, etc. It greets
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