Self-employment/Freelancer with student residence permit

huynguyen · Post by **huynguyen** » Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:48 pm

Hi everyone, I am a non-EU student in Finland. During my study, I want to work as a freelancer (I'm not sure if it is a right word or not). There's a IT company in USA suggests me to work on some projects. The work is not so busy so I only need to spend around 20 hours per week. At the end of each month, they ask me to prepare an invoice that declares the number of hours I spent on their projects and the billing address. Then they will transfer the money to my bank account in Finland. We have no contract at all. The invoice also has no signature and only sent by email.

I am only have student residence permit. So I'm not sure if I could do the work like this. And if yes, how about the tax issue?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Huy

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betelgeuse · Post by **betelgeuse** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:11 pm

huynguyen wrote:Hi everyone, I am a non-EU student in Finland. During my study, I want to work as a freelancer (I'm not sure if it is a right word or not). There's a IT company in USA suggests me to work on some projects. The work is not so busy so I only need to spend around 20 hours per week.

Not a problem http://www.migri.fi/studying_in_finland ... employment

huynguyen wrote: At the end of each month, they ask me to prepare an invoice that declares the number of hours I spent on their projects and the billing address. Then they will transfer the money to my bank account in Finland. We have no contract at all. The invoice also has no signature and only sent by email.

You have a contract. It's just not a written one.

huynguyen wrote: I am only have student residence permit. So I'm not sure if I could do the work like this. And if yes, how about the tax issue?

You need to register as a private trader to "ennakkoperintärekisteri" (form 3). Vero will then send you invoice to pay tax and private trader tax forms to fill yearly. You will not need register to Trader register.

https://www.ytj.fi/english/services/Notification-forms

betelgeuse · Post by **betelgeuse** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:17 pm

Oh yeah an addition you need VAT registration if the revenue is more than 8 500 yearly (10 000 from 2016). The easier option to deal with the bureaucracy is the pay middle men like this service:

https://www.ukko.fi/en/

huynguyen · Post by **huynguyen** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 5:58 pm

Thanks a lot for your answer.

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