Employee-related registration requirements

Do you expect to pay significantly lower fees to self-employed artists or publicists compared to the previous year? Then you can apply for a reduction in your monthly advance payments for the artists' social security contribution.

If you have any questions about the artists' social security contribution, you can contact the Künstlersozialkasse.

Under certain conditions, you can receive a subsidy towards your contribution to the agricultural pension fund.

If you have voluntary or private health insurance, you can apply for a subsidy towards your health insurance.

If you want to lend employees to a third party, you need a permit to do so.

Under certain conditions, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the Landwirtschaftliche Alterskasse.

Do you earn more than twelve times the annual mini-job limit outside of agriculture? If so, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the agricultural pension fund under certain conditions.

If your company is unable to pay the Artists' Social Insurance Fund's current claim on time, you can apply for payment relief.

If your company employs severely disabled or equivalent disabled people for less than 18 hours per week, you can have them counted towards a compulsory job under certain conditions.

If you are not compulsorily insured through an employers' liability insurance association, you may be able to insure yourself voluntarily against accidents at work, commuting accidents and occupational illnesses. This option is also available for volunteers under certain conditions.

If you are not legally insured against accidents at work, you can apply for voluntary insurance. You can change or cancel your insurance at any time.

Are you an employer and planning to send employees abroad temporarily? To ensure that German social security law continues to apply, you must apply for an A1 certificate for your employees.

Have you missed a statutory deadline for an application or notification? Then, under certain conditions, you can make up the missed deadline without any disadvantages.

If you work as a relative in an agricultural business, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the Agricultural Pension Fund under certain conditions.

If your partner works for you as an artist or journalist, you must pay social security contributions for artists under certain conditions.

If you have a residence permit from a member state of the European Union (EU) for the purpose of intra-corporate transfer, you can use it to enter Germany for a certain period of time and work there.

Have you paid fees to self-employed persons for journalistic or artistic services? Then the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) will check the correct declaration of these fees in your company.

As an employer, you must register your employees who are subject to social insurance contributions. You will need a company number for this.

If an employee leaves your company, you must report the end of the employment relationship to social insurance.

If you stop your agricultural, forestry or horticultural business, you must report this to the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture.

Are your family members insured with the Landwirtschaftliche Krankenkasse and Alterskasse and no longer work full-time in your company? Then you must deregister these family members.

As the employer, you withhold income tax from the wages paid and, after electronically transmitting the income tax registration to the responsible tax office, pay the income tax to it.

If employees return prematurely after working abroad temporarily, you as the employer must report this to the accident insurance company.

If you have any questions about your tax account or need a current account statement, you can contact the Künstlersozialkasse.

Do you disagree with the results of a tax audit? Then you can have the correctness of the decision checked by lodging an objection.

If you as a company or exchange organization would like to offer foreign students or university graduates an internship in Germany, you must obtain confirmation from the Federal Employment Agency in advance under certain conditions.

As an employer, you are obliged in certain sectors to register your employees with social insurance before they take up employment.

If you, as a bank or financial services institution, acquire shareholdings in other companies, you must inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). The same applies if your shareholdings change.

If you as a bank or financial services company wish to appoint a member or deputy member of the administrative or supervisory body, you must inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin.

If you as a bank or financial services company intend to appoint a managing director or authorize a person to represent your institution individually and have implemented, abandoned or changed this intention, you must inform BaFin.

If you as a bank or financial services company intend to appoint a person to the management or authorize a person to represent your institution individually, you must inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin.

If your employees are working abroad temporarily and want the statutory accident insurance to continue to apply, you generally have to apply for this.

If your employees or the BA request a certificate of employment, you must send this to the BA. The same applies to a certificate of additional income if employees or persons working for you on a self-employed basis have applied for or are receiving regular cash benefits.

If you, as the owner of a significant shareholding in an institution in Germany, appoint a new legal or statutory representative or a new shareholder, you must notify BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank immediately.

Upon request, the supervisory authority can exempt you from the obligation to appoint an anti-money laundering officer under certain conditions.

If one of your employees has informed you that she is pregnant or breastfeeding, you must inform the competent supervisory authority immediately.

If you have given up or discontinued your business, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. The cessation of your company leads to the termination of the artists' social security contribution obligation.

You must notify the relevant Chamber of Skilled Crafts of any new management or change in the management of a craft business subject to licensing.

You must notify the relevant Chamber of Skilled Crafts of the termination, dismissal or change of management.

If you, as a foreign company, wish to send foreign workers to Germany for a short period of time for assembly and disassembly work within the framework of contracts for work and materials, you must notify the Federal Employment Agency in advance under certain conditions.

If your company is active in a different sector or the company's activities change, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse.

If the legal circumstances of your company change, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. The change may affect your obligation to pay contributions.

You must inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your company's contact details change. You should also inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your contact details change.

If the personal details of the management of a craft business entered in the Register of Craftsmen change, you must notify the relevant Chamber of Crafts.

For the temporary employment of people from Georgia and the Republic of Moldova as seasonal workers, you as an employer must apply for a work permit from the Federal Employment Agency.

As an employer, you are obliged to register your employees with social insurance.

If you are an employer based abroad and employ people in Germany, you must register them via the minimum wage registration portal. The same applies if you hire temporary workers from a temporary employment agency based abroad.

Are you setting up or taking over an agricultural, forestry or horticultural business? Then you must register it with the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG).

If you run a company that is liable to pay social security contributions, you must register your company with the Künstlersozialkasse.

You are obliged to register all persons employed in your private household for statutory accident insurance and to inform your accident insurance fund of any changes.

If you have indications that an occupational disease may be present, you have the option of reporting this to your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

If a work, commuting or school accident has occurred in your company or institution, you must report it to your relevant employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

As an employer, you are obliged to submit monthly contribution statements for your employees to the social security authorities and to pay the social security contributions specified therein.

Has something changed in your agricultural business? You must report this to the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture.

If you employ domestic help on a mini-job basis, you must register them using the household cheque procedure.

If your employees have worked abroad, you must report the duration to your employer's liability insurance association or the German Federal and Railway Accident Insurance Fund on request.

As a company, you must submit your employees' wage statements digitally.

If you employ staff, you must report their pay to the social security authorities.

If an accident at work has occurred in your company or institution, you must report it to the accident insurance company.

Do you manage a credit institution? Then you have a personal duty of disclosure to the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) regarding your activities at other companies.

Is your company facing short-time working or redundancies? Then, under certain conditions, you may lend workers to third parties without permission if you notify the employment agency in advance.

Do you need a certificate of the contributions you have paid to the pension fund for your income tax return? You can request this certificate free of charge.

Is your company a member of a trade association or accident insurance fund and has paid the statutory accident insurance contributions? Then you can prove this with a certificate of non-objection to the main company or contracted companies.

You have not yet fulfilled your obligation to self-report and the Künstlersozialkasse has written to you to check your obligation to pay contributions.

If it turns out that a decision by the Künstlersozialkasse is incorrect, it will revoke it under certain conditions.

If the German Pension Insurance has checked you or your company, the Künstlersozialkasse will accept the result of this check.

Here you will find further information on rights and obligations in the area of social security in the Union.

If your company is registered with the Künstlersozialkasse, you generally have to submit an annual remuneration report. The Künstlersozialkasse needs this report in order to calculate the amount of the artists' social security contribution you have to pay.

Would you like to find out about the artists' social security contribution obligation for your company? Then you can take part in an information event organized by the Artists' Social Security Fund under certain conditions.