Student living and working in France

[4ef2163f]

Hello, 

I'm a student in France who just completed an internship for my master's program. My boss is under the auto-entrepreneur status in France and wishes to pay me through UpWork instead of through bank transfer, which I find strange. He explained that it was to have a receipt of the transaction for his taxes.

My status in France is just a student. I'm not registered as an auto-entrepreneur and I'm wondering if I will have problems when I must declare the money I earned for my internship. Is this going to make things more complicated for me? 

Jordan

[sjbercot]

With your student visa (VLS-TS or something?) you can usually work up to 964 hours/year. I don't know of any particular restrictions as far as Upwork.

[4ef2163f]

I'm actually on a visa vie privee/familliale but currently not working and just doing my master's. The money my boss would pay me for the internship is less than a thousand euros, and it was only 2 months of work. I'm hoping that this is too small an amount to bother the French government. 

I'm going to demand French nationality soon and I just want everything concerning my taxes to be perfect. 

[sjbercot]

I'm pretty sure you can work even full time with that visa, so yeah. Personally, I declared everything because we pay VAT on Upwork, so I assumed it was getting reported to someone somewhere and I didn't want trouble later (also getting my citizenship). They're not really sure what to call my income, but at least they know about it!

[ibtissemkoussori]

Hello, this is exactly what I was looking for. By the way I am a student in france, I want too to declare my gains but I don't really know how I should proceed! Which Statut should I make and how to declare them. So if you could tell me how this works I'll be greatfull. Thank you 

[fionahurrey]

Hi Koussori, I was just wondering if you ever found the answer to your question? I'm in the same situation. Thanks

[ibtissemkoussori]

hello, no I haven't yet found an answer.

[martina_plaschka]

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Sarah B wrote:

I'm pretty sure you can work even full time with that visa, so yeah. Personally, I declared everything because we pay VAT on Upwork, so I assumed it was getting reported to someone somewhere and I didn't want trouble later (also getting my citizenship). They're not really sure what to call my income, but at least they know about it!

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The VAT you pay on the upwork fee is owed by upwork on their revenue, not you, so I don't believe they report it drilled down to the single freelancer. 99,5% sure of it. Make that 99,9%.

[fionahurrey]

Hi Sarah, I'm currently on a student visa in France (60% working rights) and would also like to declare everything just to be safe. Could I ask under what statut you declared your UpWork income as and whether you had to also submit supporting documents? Thanks