The issue of the so-called.
The issue of the shvarc system (i.e. the “employment” of freelancers/contractors) is a topic that has been lining the Slovak business environment for decades.
The main motive for the preference of contractors over employees is the obvious tax advantages.
On the other hand, such an arrangement brings several challenges.
These are mainly legal-regulatory challenges:
- In which situations can a contractor be “employed” and when must the relationship be an employment relationship?
- What are the penalties if the inspection body has a different view?
- How often are inspections and which authorities inspect the shvarc system? or
- How to set up rights and obligations in contracts and adjust the factual situation to reduce regulatory risks?
At the same time, it is certainly advisable to know the threshold beyond which such a possible illegal arrangement may have criminal consequences.
Naturally, the Schwarz system also brings economic challenges.
For the micro-economic ones, there is a whole range of tax-tax contexts and comparisons between a trade, a copyright contract, an employment or an SRO.
This is not only in the context of the effective tax-tax rate, but also in the context of the obligation to pay health/social insurance premiums as well as social insurance benefits.
For example, it is not impossible that for an individual of a certain age and with a certain work history, it is more advantageous to remain in an employment relationship as opposed to a trade, because the ‘delta’ of the amount of savings in a trade is not higher than the ‘delta’ of the amount of a higher pension at a certain life expectancy.
Among the macroeconomic challenges, for example, an interesting one is that of tax optimisation, which speaks of its positive effect in terms of putting pressure on the state to manage more rationally.
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