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Hi,

'bona fide' I would say you are on the wrong track ! If you are working for 1 company 8 hours a day you are not self-employed .  You would have to be working for several companies on certain hours to qualify as self-employed but I don't think that anyone in Malta checks these details.

But why would you want to do this? Your employer has the advantage of not having to pay NI contributions for you and not having to grant paid vacation days and sick leave but where is your point , apart from getting the job ?

Cheers
Ricky

It has to do with the tax rates in my home country. It's very likely that they'll still tax me (while subtracting the amount already paid in Malta) and the tax rate they use depends on the fact if I'm self-employed or employed here in Malta- it's considerably lower for self-employed option.

If anyone has any first hand experience with the situation I described in the first post, I'd love to hear it.

so Austria taxes its citizens even if they are resident in another country and the earning are not generated in Austria ?

It does greatly depend under which specific regional tax authority you fall under, but yes it's entirely possible.

wow - I know the USA taxes citizens like that, didnt realise any EU countries did

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It does greatly depend under which specific regional tax authority you fall under, but yes it's entirely possible.

Can you specify what you are talking about? Are you saying Austria has different rules for taxation depending on region? This would suprise me for such a small country.

Edit: My guess is you are talking about working in malta but not having your centre of life here or?

No, the rules are the same, but it's up to the guy processing your tax non-residence application (which exempts you from having to pay taxes) to decide if he's going to approve it- the law is such that it gives him an awful lot of freedom to decide. The region I come from, they're unlikely to approve the application in my case.