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Employee or self employed? Check the AHV criteria

For the person you pay to clean, mind children or give care in your home. Your answers stay in your browser: nothing is stored or sent.

Is the person who works in your home your employee?

In most cases, yes. The AHV leaflet on household work says that in a private household, in principle every paid activity is subject to AHV contributions. The AHV leaflet for the self employed says that the compensation office decides who is self employed, case by case and for each activity, on the economic facts and not on the contract. Until it has decided that in writing, the safe course is to treat the work as employment and register as the employer.

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What does not settle it on its own

The office looks at the facts as a whole. None of these points settles the question on its own:

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