NICs for French domiciled staff

NICs for French domiciled staff

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If we employ a French-resident and domiciled employee will we have to pay French social charges? He has never worked in the UK and has no NI number. He would work from home in France with very occasional visits to the UK. We have no legal entity in France and his business would be entirely for UK clients. It would be cheaper for us to pay UK NIC's and get him an E101-2/E106 to cover his health needs whilst in France but will this wash with the authorities? And what happens after 2 years when the E101/102 expires? Anyone have any experience of this?
Brendan Dunphy

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By frauke
06th Dec 2006 19:11

Employed?
I don't think you will be "employing" this person - they seem to be self-employed. If they are then its not your problem. I presume like the UK, they have their own Self-employed Social Security system.

I think the E101 is for Uk self-employed who want to work in the EU, and require free medical cover - not employees. And the E101-2 and E106 is also for UK Nationals who are looking for work in the EU, but require free medical cover. Neither cover employees. I think the idea of these forms is that the individuals can get cover based on their UK contributions either as a self-employed person or a person that was employed in the past.

About 6 years ago, I worked in europe for a couple of weeks with a large group of other people and my employer at the time insisted I get a E111. One of the party got injured, and were told that because we were there on behalf of our employers we could not use them. We discovered that they only covered us while we were over the English Channel!

Ironically our personal annual travel policy covered us - not the E111!

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