Freelance Registration

Freelance Registration

You got paid for one or two one-off jobs. Do you have to register as self-employed?

September 22, 2026

A one-off job has come your way: a couple of afternoons of private tutoring, renting out your car for a weekend, designing a logo for someone you know, shooting a friend’s wedding. They pay you, and suddenly a doubt hits you that you didn’t have when you said yes: do I have to register as self-employed for this?

You search for the answer and run into contradictory threads. Some say yes, always, no exceptions. Others say no, “if it’s small enough.” And almost none of them tell you exactly what decides whether it’s “small enough” or not, because it isn’t the amount: it’s whether that money is yours, whether what you did counts as an economic activity, and whether you’re going to repeat it.

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