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.

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

Under certain conditions, you can receive a subsidy for your contribution to the Agricultural Pension Fund.

Are you temporarily sending staff abroad? To prove that German social security law continues to apply, you can apply for an A1 certificate for your employees.

Do you receive an income outside of agriculture that is more than twelve times the mini-job limit per year? If so, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the agricultural pension fund under certain conditions.

Upon request, the competent authority may exempt you from the obligation to appoint an anti-money laundering officer 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 and on the way to and from work as well as occupational diseases. This option is also available to volunteers under certain conditions.

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

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

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.

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

Under certain conditions, you can be exempted from compulsory insurance with the Agricultural Pension Fund.

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

You must identify all persons whom you employ in homework under the (HAG) and those persons through whom you pass on homework in lists and submit these lists to the competent body every six months.

If you employ trainees as an employer, you must enter their vocational training in the register of vocational training relationships and update or amend it as required.

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

As the training provider, you must enter every training contract for a recognized training occupation in the vocational training register and have it deleted in the event of premature termination.

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

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

Your family members no longer work full-time in your company? Then you must deregister these family members with the Agricultural Health Insurance Fund and Old Age Insurance Fund.

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

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

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.

If you, as a bank or financial services company, intend to appoint a managing director or authorise a person to act as sole representative of your institution and have carried out, abandoned or changed this intention, you must inform BaFin.

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 in companies change.

If you, as a bank or financial services company, intend 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 person to the management or to authorise a person to represent your institution on an individual basis, you must inform the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin.

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

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

If you operate a pharmaceutical company that places finished medicinal products on the market, you must notify the competent authority of a qualified person. Any changes must also be reported immediately.

If you are responsible for radiation protection, you must inform the authority about the appointment and dismissal of radiation protection officers. The same applies if the area of responsibility or the powers of the appointed radiation protection officer change.

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.

If, as a foreign company, you 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 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 object of your business has changed, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. The change may affect your obligation to pay contributions.

If the personal data of the management of a craft business entered in the register of craftsmen changes, you must inform the competent 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.

If the person responsible for radiation protection changes in your company, you must inform the competent authority.

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).

As an employer, you are required to register your employees with the social security system.

You must report a new management of your craft business requiring approval to the competent Chamber of Crafts.

If you are a foreign employer that employs staff in Germany, you must give notification of this through the Minimum Wage Notification Portal. The same applies if you are a German employer employing foreign temporary workers.

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

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

Something has changed at your agricultural company? You must report this to the Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture.

If you, as the holder of a significant interest 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.

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

As an employer, you are required to report your employees' pay to the social security system.

If the current management stops or a change takes place, you must report this to the Chamber of Crafts.

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

If a work accident occurs at your company or institution, you must report it.

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

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.

You would like to employ people in homework for the first time according to the Homework Act (HAG)? Then you must submit the required advance notification to the competent authority.

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.

If your company employs severely disabled persons or persons with equivalent disabilities who work less than 18 hours per week, you can count them towards a compulsory job under certain conditions.

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

Does your company belong to a professional association or accident insurance fund and has paid the contributions to the statutory accident insurance? Then you can prove this with a clearance certificate to main companies 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 you wish to employ children for performances or events, you must apply for an exemption from the ban on child labor.

If the German Pension Insurance has examined you or your company, the Künstlersozialkasse will take over the result of this examination.

If you have newly appointed or dismissed an immission control officer or if there have been changes in their area of responsibility, you must report this to the responsible immission control authority.

The employment of persons who work with third-party X-ray equipment or third-party interference sources and who may be exposed to a dose higher than 1 mSv must be reported to the competent authority.

If you, as a company, issue home work in accordance with the Home Work Act (HAG), for the performance of which special hazard protection regulations apply, you must notify the responsible trade supervisory office and the police authority (usually the public order office).

If you operate a pharmaceutical company that places finished medicinal products on the market, you must notify the competent authority of an information officer. Any changes must also be reported immediately.

The written appointment of a responsible person must be reported to the competent authority. The person must have a valid certificate of competence for handling explosives.

Do you conduct animal experiments, keep or breed laboratory animals in your facility or company? Then you must appoint an animal welfare officer as the responsible person and report this to the competent body.

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.

If employees return early after temporary work abroad, you as the entrepreneur must report this to the accident insurance.