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Is it illegal for civil servants to get paid for writing novels?
It is ok for civil servants to make contributions and earn income by using their business time, which is different from the stipulation in the Civil Service Law that civil servants are not allowed to engage in profit-making activities. It mainly depends on what position you are in, and you can develop your second interest without affecting your work, because submission is not a profit-making activity. Labor remuneration refers to the income obtained through labor. Labor remuneration, the basic standard to distinguish income from wages and salary income is whether there is a relationship between employment and being employed. The income from labor remuneration is the remuneration obtained by an individual for engaging in a certain skill and providing a certain service, and has nothing to do with the unit that paid the remuneration. Income from wages and salaries is an individual's non-labor and is paid in the unit where he works. He has an employment and employment relationship with the unit that pays the remuneration. The remuneration refers to the remuneration paid to the author after the publication of the work, and refers to the remuneration paid to the author by the publishing agency after the publication of the work. Copyright is an important economic right of the author, a material reward for the author's creative work, and an important economic right enjoyed by the copyright owner, and no one can arbitrarily deprive it. The current salary system in China is the basic salary plus seal salary system.

Legal basis: Article 8 (6) of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Individual Income Tax Law stipulates that the income from royalties refers to the income obtained by individuals from providing the right to use patents, trademarks, copyrights, non-patented technologies and other franchises. At the same time, the regulations also clearly stipulate that the income from providing the right to use copyright does not include the income from remuneration.