Hi there,
as some know I'm currently trying to make the studio official but there are a thousand documents I have yet to fill out and a thousand things I have to show them until I get a business permission.
But now my question is: For the first time, the label of a band pays for the production and now they wanted an invoice. Well I wrote one, but didn't charge VAT of course because I'm no business yet but a private person. Now they were like "we need a VAT number and shit or the tax office gets all bitchy at us"
How do you deal with labels if you are not (yet) an official business?
I will speak to my tax adviser but I can only talk to her this evening..
I was hoping that especially Lasse or some other German studio-owners would chime in because the law is very different from country to country. But other people's experiences are very welcome, too.
(Und dabei noch eine Frage an die deutschsprachingen: Seid ihr als Freiberufler angemeldet oder als (Klein)Gewerbe? Scheinbar ist ja beides möglich, aber zB auch Freiberufler als Kleingewerbe etc.)
as some know I'm currently trying to make the studio official but there are a thousand documents I have yet to fill out and a thousand things I have to show them until I get a business permission.
But now my question is: For the first time, the label of a band pays for the production and now they wanted an invoice. Well I wrote one, but didn't charge VAT of course because I'm no business yet but a private person. Now they were like "we need a VAT number and shit or the tax office gets all bitchy at us"
How do you deal with labels if you are not (yet) an official business?
I will speak to my tax adviser but I can only talk to her this evening..
I was hoping that especially Lasse or some other German studio-owners would chime in because the law is very different from country to country. But other people's experiences are very welcome, too.
(Und dabei noch eine Frage an die deutschsprachingen: Seid ihr als Freiberufler angemeldet oder als (Klein)Gewerbe? Scheinbar ist ja beides möglich, aber zB auch Freiberufler als Kleingewerbe etc.)