Undeclared work notification
According to the Undeclared Work Prevention Act of 23.07.2004, undeclared work is performed by anyone who provides services or has them carried out and thereby
- withholds social security contributions as an employer, entrepreneur or self-employed person subject to compulsory insurance by breaching his reporting, contribution or recording obligations,
- evades or reduces taxes as a taxpayer,
- as a recipient of social benefits (e.g. unemployment benefit, unemployment benefit 2, social assistance) does not fulfil its statutory notification obligations towards the social security provider, in particular does not indicate the start of work,
- as a trader has not fulfilled his obligation to notify the trade (§ 14 Gewerbeordnung) or has not acquired the required itinerant trade card (§ 55 Gewerbeordnung),
- operates a craft subject to authorisation as a self-employed person without being entered in the Register of Craftsmen (§ 1 Handwerksordnung).
Undeclared work offences listed in No. 1-3 are examined by the Customs Administration. If you have any questions, please contact your local main customs office. Further information can be obtained from the Financial Control Department of Undeclared Work at the Oberfinanzdirektion Köln or on the Internet on the websites listed below.
Infringements of craft and trade law (No. 4 and 5) are prosecuted by the municipal anti-undeclared employment authorities. These are usually the districts, independent cities and large independent cities. The employees of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport in the government representations are responsible for coordinating the fight against undeclared work in the area of crafts and trade law, which you can also contact via the e-mail address Schwarzarbeitsbekaempfung@mw.niedersachsen.de. Feedback on your information is not possible for data protection reasons.
Assistance by relatives or life partners, out of courtesy, by way of neighborhood help or self-help remains permissible if it is not sustainably aimed at profit.
Aftermath
Anyone who commissions or performs undeclared work and evades taxes, fails to pay social security contributions or fraudulently obtains social benefits commits a criminal offence punishable by a fine or, in serious cases, imprisonment of up to 10 years. Undeclared work, which is prosecuted as an administrative offence, can be subject to fines of up to 300,000 euros.
In addition, in many cases there is a risk of exclusion from public contracts.
What can I do?
Undeclared work causes great damage. Therefore
- do not work black,
- do not employ undeclared workers,
- be attentive and inform the competent anti-work authorities.
Who should I contact?
The responsibility lies with the municipality, the joint municipality, the city and the district, as well as the competent main customs office.
Responsible authorities
Einheitsgemeinde Haselünne, Stadt
Timetable
Timetable
Contact
- Haselünne:
- AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Counseling
- Animal enclosure display
- Application for approval as a transport company in accordance with the EU Animal Welfare Transport Regulation
- Application for issuance of a German death certificate in case of death abroad
- Application for the issuance of a certificate of no impediment to marriage for German nationals, stateless persons, homeless foreigners or foreign refugees within the meaning of the Convention on the Status of Refugees with Habitual Residence in Germany
- Apply for a death certificate
- Apply for a permit to supply / dispense certain hazardous substances and mixtures in accordance with ChemVerbotsV
- Apply for a resident parking permit
- Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
- Apply for blind person's allowance
- Apply for care assistance
- Apply for certificate of seclusion according to the Condominium Act
- Apply for infection protection instruction including certificate
- Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities, minors with physical or mental disabilities or sensory impairments
- Assistance for subsistence: granting
- Assistance in other situations Authorisation
- Authorisation for exemptions from the Highway Code: granting
- Authorisation for the non-commercial handling and acquisition of explosive substances Granting
- Avian influenza
- Basic provision in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity (social assistance)
- Birth certificate issuance
- Birth registers
- Broadband coverage
- Building file archive
- Building permit issuance in the simplified building permit procedure
- Bulky waste disposal by collection
- Bulky waste disposal by personal delivery
- Calculating and setting the wastewater levy
- Car towed - municipal information
- Carcasses and animal by-products: disposal
- Change to the church tax deduction when joining the church
- Change to the church tax deduction when leaving the church
- Children's Passport Extension
- Children's Passport Status Query
- Children's passport notification due to relocation
- Church admission: Declaration
- Citizens' consultation hours
- Citizenship card: Issuance
- Commercial properties
- Community licence for the international and national carriage of passengers by coach and bus: issue
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Damage to roads and bridges: Notification
- Data protection in municipalities
- Disaster prevention
- Documents and copies: Certification
- Dog ownership deregistration
- Driver's license issue new due to name change
- Driving licence: Extension - driving licence of categories C and D
- Driving licence: issued - on trial
- Early Aid Offer
- Earth excavation display for wells
- Electronic proof of identity blocking
- Electronic residence permit issuance
- Enrollment of a child in elementary school
- Establishment of a civil partnership Notarisation
- Event: Advertisement
- Events in public transport areas: Permission
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exemption for the use of floodplains: granted
- Exemption from the driving ban on Sundays and public holidays: Authorisation
- Explosive ordnance: elimination
- Extend registration of prostitution activities
- Family book: Exhibition
- Family name change
- Firearms license
- Foster children
- GIS - Geographical Information System
- Game Warden Confirmation
- Garden waste disposal
- Guardianship Institution
- Guardianship law
- Handling of water-polluting substances Display
- Help for pregnant women
- House number: Fixing
- Household waste disposal
- Hunting lease: Advertisement
- Hunting license: exhibition
- Information blocking device
- Information in the population register Granting to landlords
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with custodial partner
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with divorced or widowed partner
- Interference with nature and landscape: authorisation
- Keeping dangerous dogs Permission
- Keeping of farm animals - display
- Land use plan
- Landscape and green space plans
- Lost property
- Manufacture, authorization, supply and import of veterinary medicinal products: information provided
- Markets and festivals
- Marriage consummation only for German citizens
- Marriage consummation with foreign partner
- Medical Service / Youth Medical Service
- Municipal sports facilities
- Naturalization: Approval - for foreigners entitled to naturalization
- Obligations of waste disposal and recovery companies
- Operation Prostitution Business Permit
- Operation of a shooting range in enclosed spaces: display
- Organ donation
- Organization or execution of prostitution events Permit
- Parenting, marriage, family and life counselling
- Parking barrier for a move: Facility
- Passport Issuance of additional passports
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance new due to change of name upon marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Passport issuance new due to change of other data
- Passport issuance provisionally
- Passport message for retrieval
- Passport status query
- Pay trade tax
- Permit-free construction measures Notification
- Permits and exceptions to excessive road use: granting
- Planning approval
- Playgrounds: Maintenance
- Population register information Provision of self-disclosure
- Possession of poliovirus display
- Preservation of Historical Monuments
- Process-free construction measures
- Protection of children and adolescents
- Providing a prostitution vehicle permit
- Provision of information from the population register for commercial purposes
- Psychiatric institution (closed) - Accommodation
- Recognition of paternity
- Register at the secondary school
- Register burial
- Register marriage
- Registration for the transportation of animal by-products
- Report significant changes for housing benefit such as number of household members, rent, charges or income
- Reporting suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing
- Reporting the loss of your own ID card
- Representation permit for a prostitution business Permit
- Residence Re-registration Change of status
- Residence Registration as main residence
- Road signs and traffic facilities: modification
- School enrolment examination
- School excursions, school trips and comparable trips from day-care centres: reimbursement of costs
- School travel costs
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips by day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to the Federal Child Benefit Act
- Second home tax exemption
- Self-help groups
- Senior citizens' and nursing homes in Lower Saxony
- Shelter (children, adolescents and young adults)
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Show use of biocides
- Special obligation to register in accommodation establishments Registration
- Store opening hours
- Studying in Lower Saxony
- Tax Life Certificate: Issuance
- Temporary authorisation for road passenger transport: grant
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Transmission blocks in the registration register
- Undeclared work notification
- Vacation
- Vaccination: Advice
- Vegetable waste disposal by incineration
- Voluntary Social Year
- Voluntary work Appointment as a youth alderman
- Advertisement of non-profit and commercial waste collections
- Ambulance transport
- Animal Event Permit
- Application for exemption from presentation of the certificate of marriageability for foreign nationals.
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Applying for a permit under immission control law for the construction and operation of systems
- Applying for an increase in housing benefit
- Assistance for the elderly
- Avoidance, recycling and disposal of waste Consulting
- Building encumbrances: Entry - in the register of building encumbrances
- Building permit issuance
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Cancel display
- Care and care of children and adolescents in emergency situations
- Carrying out collections Provision of information
- Change of use of buildings Approval
- Childcare services for seniors
- Children's Passport Issue
- Children's passport notification due to loss
- Chimney sweep
- Compensatory and substitute measures for nature conservation
- Confirmation of development
- Construction site: Issuance of construction site orders under traffic law
- Construction supervision
- Conveyance
- Cycling
- Declaration of the right to a name
- Decoration of Honour of the Land
- Determination of the route of dangerous goods transports: Issue - Determination of individual routes
- Distinction between crafts and non-crafts - consulting
- Dog ownership registration
- Domestic slaughter
- Driving licence: transfer - foreign driving licence
- Early intervention for the hearing impaired
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- Environmental information on contaminated sites and areas suspected of being contaminated sites: Information
- Exemption for compulsory use of seat belts and helmets: Granting
- Exemption for the use of tools between 20:00 and 7:00: issuance
- Express passport issue
- Family holidays: Funding
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Food inspection
- Granting access to building permits for neighbours
- Have address and personal data changed
- Helping the homeless
- Home care
- Housekeeping help
- Housing benefit cancellation/invalidity
- Identity card notification due to retrieval
- Identity card notification due to theft
- Information in the population register Provision of group information
- Licence for the (cross-border) carriage of goods by road for commercial purposes / Community licence
- Local law
- Memorials
- New passport issue due to change of name on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership
- Obtain a certificate for carrying narcotics when traveling abroad
- Out-of-court dispute resolution
- Passport issuance for frequent travelers
- Passport issuance new due to expiry of validity
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport report for theft
- Pension scheme
- Permit for the extraction of mineral resources: Granting
- Professional drivers - confirm basic qualification
- Protection of animals
- Register of contaminated sites: Information
- Register your child at a secondary school
- Report conclusion of the land lease agreement
- School performance: assessment
- Show installation of a prostitution vehicle
- Signatures: Certification
- Street cleaning
- Towing permit: issue
- Urban land-use planning
- Use of sound amplification systems: granting - exemption
- Violence against women
- Waste disposal
- Waste tyre storage facilities of less than 100 tonnes: approval
- Water law permit for structural installations on water bodies: Granting
- Winter service
- Apply for a subsidy for expenses on a monument
- Assessment of second home tax
- Bathing water quality monitoring
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of identity card due to change of address
- Children's passport change due to change of address
- Commercial Waste Disposal
- Commuter Portal
- Dementia - Information options
- Direct discharge of rainwater: permission
- Disturbance of street lighting: message
- Driving licence: Issuance - International driving licence
- Driving license: Issue - Passenger transport
- Environmental impact assessment
- Exemption from the observance of the night's rest for events: granting
- Flood protection
- Gun ownership card: issuance - for sport shooters
- Health advice for prostitutes
- Hunting permit: notification
- Immission control: Inspection - due to impairment
- Medical officer
- Notification period of an auction: shortening
- Nursing homes, forms of assisted living, outpatient assisted living communities: Obligation to notify - Operation
- Outdoor Advertising: Approval
- Parking permit
- Passport change due to change of place of residence
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance for adults for the first time
- Passport notification due to loss
- Petrol stations Advertisement Commissioning: Limitation of the release of fuel vapours
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Resident certificate issuance
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB II
- Special reporting obligation in hospitals, homes and similar institutions Registration
- Tuberculosis counselling
- Veterinary affairs
- Volunteering
- War Victims' Welfare Grant for injured persons
- property tax assessment received
- Addiction counselling
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a tree felling permit for municipally protected trees
- Apply for certificates of origin and other certifications required for foreign trade from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Assistance to overcome particular social difficulties
- Biowaste disposal
- Carrying out school dental check-ups
- Certificate of competence for keeping chickens for fattening
- Children's passport report for theft
- Citizens' advice
- Commercial cattle trade: advertisement
- Commercial road haulage - Apply for a permit
- Confirmation of landlord
- Construction of a small sewage treatment plant: Advertisement
- Day care
- Dog tax assessment
- Driving license: Extension
- Extending the validity of a resident parking permit
- Identity card status query
- Improvement of regional economic structure Support
- Legal biotope protection
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance: issue
- Nature conservation area: Determination
- Organization or implementation of prostitution events Advertisement
- Permission to drive in protected landscape areas: Issuance
- Permission to operate a prostitution establishment
- Permit and exemption for large-capacity and heavy goods traffic: issue
- Preliminary building inquiry and preliminary building permit
- Private trips abroad with pets (dogs, cats, ferrets)
- Recovery of maintenance
- Register prostitution activity for the first time
- Residence Registration as secondary residence
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB XII
- Setting a waste fee
- Voluntary work Appointment as alderman
- Waste paper: disposal
- Water Supervision
- Water permit for the abstraction of groundwater: Granting
- Welfare
- Wohnberechtigungsschein: Issuance
- Zoo: Approval
Which documents are required?
Documents may be required. Please contact the competent authority.
What are the fees?
Fees may apply. Please contact the relevant authority.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Deadlines may have to be observed. Please contact the competent authority.
What else should I know?
Information as to whether a business registration or a itinerant trade card is required for a business activity is provided by the municipalities in whose area the company is to be founded.
The Chambers of Crafts advise on the requirement of a register of craftsmen in the exercise of craft activities and their requirements. The addresses of the Chambers of Crafts in Lower Saxony can be found on the Internet at:
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