Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel The only the experience I have is making business from Switzerland and having clients in Germany. I wanted to behave correctly, but it was a heavy mess, or let's say impossible, not to pay the taxes 2x. Germany took 15% source tax (Quellensteuer) with no exception; but in Switzerland I had to pay the full tax on the full amount again. I had spent a lot of money for juridical and financial consulting in both countries. No one could really help me, though both countries have an anti-double-taxing agreement. I had written about one dozen of letters to the Finanzamt in Hamburg. Every answer took at least 2 months and just repeated there's no way to bypass their source tax. Finally they forced me to cheat. The easiest way would be, keep your papers in Sweden, go to the USA as tourist, let the people pay through Paypal, download the cash to your swedish bank account and tax it there (if ever). Paypal is not a bank and the US government will never check that. If your clients insist on a invoice, adress it from sweden. Didier