Hello.
A small farm, which cannot employ even 1 person full time in a hilly environment with no possibility of expansion, wants to dry fruit. To do this, according to the current law, it has to register a complementary activity, set up premises, etc. and keep books and pay a contribution of approx. 30€/month for ... , because she is already fully employed elsewhere. As the potential turnover is small (approx. 500-1500€/brut/year), I decided after thinking it over, of course, that there was no point in doing this, because I would have a lot of problems with it. Everything else is clear and right in terms of order and control, but the binding of compulsory bookkeeping, here it is complicated. Why not simply attach this to the lump sum of the rest of the farm? I do not know if you realise how much work and care one has to do to get things done and to meet other standards and requirements. I have chosen not to do it, and I will not do it, even though my annual turnover would be a class higher. The complementary activity would be different, but it will not be. So what is it that you want to achieve with the legislation and what is it that you do not want to achieve with the legislation? 1. order; 2. taxes collected; 3. cultivation of the landscape; 4. added value. In my case, you will have order, because I will not do things, there will be no taxes, the landscape will be cultivated, but there will be no added value, because the meadow will continue to be a meadow, with the gross annual income from that income belonging to the meadow culture. Know that many potentials will not be developed precisely from this title. Would it not be wise to leave this part in a lump sum and thus allow a kind of 'start-up' environment for complementary activities. Once the technology is mastered and the traffic is generated to keep things 'running' anyway, normal taxation comes in. So any attempt at innovation is 'burdened' with red tape and taxes or the activity simply remains 'underground'. Self-sufficiency and value added fall and fall. It is a matter of political choice.