Self-employed and job center?
I'm registered with the job center, and now I want to take on a part-time job as a chat moderator. However, everyone's telling me that if I take this job, I'd have to become self-employed. Unfortunately, since I can only start with a part-time job, that means I could only earn around €300 maximum. That means I would still be dependent on the job center. How does that work exactly if you have to be self-employed but are still registered with the job center, or are you automatically deregistered and have to live on the €300 a month?
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Who the hell is everyone? And €300 is already very little. Especially if you have to register it as a business.
The job center won't play along for long. (I think.)
In any case, you must inform the job center and submit a preliminary EKS. I could go into the issue in more detail, but I think you may have misheard something or your "everyone" doesn't know what they're talking about and may just be guessing.
By "everyone," I mean the two companies I applied to. Unfortunately, I can't send screenshots, but I can copy the text; perhaps I'm misunderstanding it.
I quote: We are looking for freelancers, independent contractors on a self-employed basis, and we pay gross. We do not handle your registration as a freelancer or tax matters; you will need to contact the tax office or a tax advisor for that.
You can certainly earn money as a freelancer or self-employed person and supplement it with citizen's income.
Whether it is worth starting a business as a chat moderator is another question.
No
No
However, you will not be allowed to remain self-employed in the long term if there is no indication of an increase in income.
A mini-job is not self-employment!
A mini-job is a taxable employment relationship in which the employer pays a flat-rate tax (including church tax and social security contributions).
If you are self-employed, you have to send an invoice to the client, which they then pay, and you are responsible for paying the taxes and social security contributions.
As a freelancer, you can do something now and then, but that's not a mini-job.
Tell the job center that you would like to take up this opportunity.
The income will be credited to you when you receive it.