Looking at SARL or sole entrepreneur options in relation to tax and social charges
Hello Valérie
I currently run a publishing company in the UK as a sole trader. All the contracts and sales are in the UK (UK reps, book distributors and writers) plus online writing services and writing mentoring. I currently employ both my husband and son part-time on small wages (equivalent to around €9650 and €8250 respectively). We don’t aim to make a profit and generally break even or have a slight loss and I take actual expenses but not salary. (I have an early pension from a previous employment)
We will be relocating to ºÚÁÏÍø×îÐÂÈë¿Ú this autumn and so I think that despite all the activity being in the UK I need to register the business in ºÚÁÏÍø×îÐÂÈë¿Ú. So the first question is whether this is correct. Alternatively, I could continue to run it in the UK and register with HMRC as a non-resident sole trader but I’m not sure whether the ºÚÁÏÍø×îÐÂÈë¿Ú authorities would accept this (though we’d declare salaries and any profits in our ºÚÁÏÍø×îÐÂÈë¿Ú tax returns if we can use this route).
If I can do this then I’ll also set up as a ºÚÁÏÍø×îÐÂÈë¿Ú sole trader for my separate online work.
If I can’t do this, then I need to decide whether to set up as a ºÚÁÏÍø×îÐÂÈë¿Ú sole trader with a similar structure as currently in the UK or whether it would be better for the 3 of us to form a SARL (probably the family version). To decide this I need to consider what would be taxed under each structure and what social charges would be paid (for all 3 of us).
Thank you!
