How to combine the status of civil servant and micro-entrepreneur?

As a public servant, you have the opportunity to exercise complementary activity as a micro-entrepreneur if you meet all of the following conditions:

• You must be at part-time.
• You must to seek authorization to your line manager before you start your business.
• The activity you plan to pursue must not disturb the performance of your duties.
• The activity must be carried out outside of your working hours.
• Your activity should not be considered as a illegal taking of interest.

The ancillary activities that you can practice as a micro-entrepreneur are:

• Expertise and consultation
• Education and training
• Sport or cultural activity, including coaching and animation in sport, culture and popular education
• Agricultural activity
• Activity of collaborating spouse in an artisanal, commercial or liberal company
• In-home help with a relative (parents, children, spouse...)
• Childcare
• Assistance to the elderly, disabled persons and persons in need of personal assistance at home or mobility assistance
• Low-level work in individuals
• Activity of general interest
• Mission of public interest in international cooperation or with bodies of general international interest or a foreigner State
• Sale of goods produced personally by the agent

You will have to report your income on your annual tax return as follows:

• Civil servant income, in category ‘wages and salaries’

• Turnover of micro-entrepreneurs in the category of micro-entrepreneursBIC: titleContent (commercial, industrial or craft activity) or micro-NBC: titleContent (liberal activity).

As a micro-entrepreneur civil servant, you accumulate 2 company statutes. You contribute both as a civil servant (from your salary) and as a micro-entrepreneur (from your turnover).

On the other hand, your benefits are open in the the activity you carried on before the status rollup. Thus, if you are a civil servant and you start a micro-entrepreneur activity, the payment of your allowances will be made according to the general scheme of employees. But if you're a micro-entrepreneur and you become a public servant, it will be the social security scheme for self-employed persons which will apply.