Work /
Interview at a Callan School [204]
As far as I know, the most common way to do business is to make the teacher responsible for their own tax affairs. It does depend on the school - my one gives people the choice of paying their own tax or getting the school to do it for them.
Yep - though it's (yet another) a grey legal area. The tax office apparently frowns on the practice of requiring an employee to set up their own business and then work solely for the school. If you're going to do this (register as self employed), you need to be a genuine business with a number of your own customers or it's just another tax dodge for the school.
But non-Polish teachers seem to often be offered the 'brown envelope, no questions asked or answered' approach, especially if they're working without a contract or any real proof of them working there. It's this approach that often leads to them being ****** over with payment,
Schools love doing this, don't they? Think about it - you start the year with a few hundred students paying up front (often in cash) for a year's tuition at maybe 2000 zloty each. That's a few hundred thousand zloty of untraceable money straight into the pocket at once, earning interest for the year if you decide to invest it. If not, pay the teachers cash in hand and don't declare it. What an earner eh? In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of language schools are fronts for money laundering rings.
