UK resident - trading in Poland - how?

[Sam Cooper]

Good afternoon all!

Myself and my partner both live in UK for over 10 years. We are both UK residents and both are Polish.
My partner want to set up a business - hiring out some stuff for private parties. Whole trade will be done in Poland but we think that we can run it from UK, pay taxes and NI in UK (as we are now).

My question is - is it possible and if so - what do we need to do?

Will simply opening sole trader business in UK cover us for trade in Poland?

I know nothing about businesses - how to run it or start it up, yet alone international business!

Yearly income from that job would be around £10k if not less.

We will only trade with private people, not other businesses, so I believe no VAT involved?

We are both in full time employment, my partner is currently on maternity leave.

Please ask more questions if needed and if you know anything about such trade, please let us know.

Thank you kindly!

 

[kulture]

I moved this to General as it covers so many areas.

 

[accounting-poland]

I think much depends on what you are really up to. It seems you are talking about a recruitment agency, where both of your clients (employer and employee) are PL residents.

Note that in PL this is a regulated business – you have to register with PL Registrar fo Employment Agencies. On the other hand, you do not have to do register in PL if you are an enterprise running this business in another EU state (in compliance with the local law).

So it seems possible to do it from UK (at least till brexit).

Whether it makes sense depends on the nature of your services, i.e. is it just going to be sort of advisory , where you play a part of a middleman betw. employer and employee throughout the recruitment process, or is it going to be outsourcing of employees, where you employ them yourselves, send them to you client and bill the client for their work.

Both cases seem possible to me to be done by a UK firm, but the latter – more complicated.

I elaborated a bit on that in this thread: use-of-freelance-staff-in-poland.376761/#post-2797115
ps.
Sorry, I am not allowed to send links, even within this website.

 

[Sam Cooper]

I've got no idea where you've got that this will be recruiting agency. I said stuff not staff.

 

[The Byre]

I assume this is for sound and lighting equipment - in which case, I would be worried about the hands-on aspect of knowing whether the equipment is returned in proper order, still works and no parts are missing.

When you engage in this kind of business, ALWAYS get a signature that the equipment was handed over in good working order at the beginning of the gig and ALWAYS check that it is in full working order at the end of the gig.

Nothing goes 'walkies' quite like sound and lighting equipment!

 

[accounting-poland]

I've got no idea where you've got that this will be recruiting agency. I said stuff not staff.

I have got it from AmE (as in AmE you generally rent stuff and hire staff), and partially from the fact that the idea of a UK-based business renting out stuff in PL seemed to me a little …. unique (eg. for the reasons mentioned by 'The Byre', above).

But apparently in this case, what I thought was your typing error (stuff), eventually turned out to be my mistake (staff), sorry – my fault.

Anyway , that does not change what I said before: generally any UK business (including an entrepreneurial sole trader) can trade in PL, as well as in any other EU member state.

However the devil is in the details, so depending on what exactly you are going to do and how, you may face different regulations/levies (e.g. WHT on your rental incomes in PL).