French company hosting non-community artists in France and organizing a tour
Monday, 04 July 2005
“Our association, which has an entertainment promoter’s licence, is engaging a group of musicians from Nepal on contract. We are organizing a one-month tour for this group in Belgium and the Netherlands. Can we draw up a sales agreement with the foreign organizers? Will the artists then be declared and paid salaries by us in France for the dates worked abroad?”
You can indeed draw up a standard sales agreement with foreign organizers (see also Foreign artist engaged by a company based in France ).
In that case, the artists are your salaried employees, and your welfare contributions and related returns must be made to the French social welfare organizations.
However, in this instance, your partners, who may well be based in another European Economic Area member state, may nonetheless be required to register the artists and pay contributions to the welfare agencies in their country.
This all depends on how long they have been your salaried employees in France before you second them to another state, as well as on the legislation of the state in question (in this respect, we advise you enquire further with the liaison organization or the relevant institution in charge of secondment in the state in question (contact details available on the CLEISS site, see Useful links ).
If the artist’s period of salaried employment in France is very short, this will in all likelihood be the case.
If that is indeed the case, to avoid double payment of welfare contributions, the artists can be engaged and paid directly by your partners based in Belgium or the Netherlands.
