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Last activity 04 May 2023 by Anastasija_gust

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mk55

Hey guys,


I need your advice/help. I have an employer who wants to hire me in Bulgaria. I am a EU citizen, so I went to Bulgaria and received my long term residence with a help of lawyer. So with that I also received my personal number. I gave this too my employer because as far I understand it acts as my tax Id. Now my employer has problems registering me, because it seems I still have to register with the NRA. My lawyer says that my Personal number is registered automatically with the NRA.

Do you know which is true and if I have to register with the NRA, what do I have to do?


Really looking forward to youer help


best regards

Anastasija_gust

My boss did not select LNC instead of EGN when he payrolled me.  Tell your boss it is easy to fix. LNC is the tax id.

cyberescue1

@mk55

I'm a UK citizen here, I have an EU style id card, which I received before the Brexit deadline.  I'd never registered my number for tax, as I had no need, but now we have an Airbnb and need to pay tax.  We approached our local accountant and she said to us we need to register with the tax office, despite our personal numbers (my wife's and mine) also being the tax numbers.  I see it like this...  Your personal id number doesn't become your tax number until you register.

We're also going to start a company through our accountant.


Hope this helps,

Ian

mk55

@Anastasija_gust

Thanks for your response!

He gave the number a local payroll company. So do you think they just thought they got EGN number (as far as I know this number is for bulgarians right?) instead of an LNC number?

So did you never have to go to the NRA office?

mk55

@cyberescue1

Hey Ian,

thank you very much helps a lot.

Did you already go there? If yes what did you have to bring/what did you have to do there?

gwynj

@mk55


My employer (a local school) said that I had to "activate" my number at the social security office. I popped down and filled out a short form, and it was done.

Anastasija_gust

Maybe he mean bulstat statistic

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