Global Mobility Advisory

Laubia makes the Client's job easier while looking after their Staff.
Agenda:

  1. Background and Scope of work.
    For many organizations, the pressure to compete effectively has led to an increase in the size and complexity of their global workforce, placing greater demands on international human resource teams.
    Managing compensation, tax compliance and global mobility is becoming more costly, complex and time-consuming.
    The Global Mobility Practice brings together a wealth of services to help make managing the client's global workforce easier, safer and far more efficient.
  2. Managing the global workforce
  3. Global Mobility Advisory Services
    • policy review, design, and development;
    • international assignment process;
    • improvement and re-engineering process manuals and guides;
    • international assignee assessment and repatriation planning;
    • assignee communications;
    • tailored benchmarking surveys;
    • employee attitude surveys.
  4. Due Diligence Advisory
    When a company needs to evaluate tax compliance, the Global Mobility Practice can provide a variety of services, from assisting with evaluating permanent establishment issues, to helping to evaluate potential unrecorded liabilities associated with globally mobile employees.
    Companies often ignore the tax aspects of transactions such as an acquisition, a merger, movement into a new country or a joint venture. If a significant amount of your business is from offshore operations where employees are on the ground, cross-border employees can have hidden or unexpected financial, tax, social security and immigration consequences.
  5. Employment Tax Services
    The Global Mobility Practice can help companies to identify payroll and employment tax issues early and help to resolve them before they escalate into significant tax problems giving rise to significant administrative penalties.
    This includes assistance in identifying, quantifying and recovering payroll tax overpayments, complying with employment tax (and social security) requirements during restructuring or related M&A transactions, and securing the abatement of penalties for payroll-related assessments through a day-to-day assistance on various types of payroll and payroll-related issues.
  6. Tax compliance
    The Global Mobility Practice completes tax returns for international assignees. This is a personalized service for each expatriate (employee seconded abroad).
    We can assist the company to set up the payroll process - if required by the local legislation.
    We can also help assignees to get the payroll information they need to process their tax return in their home country.
    All of this is done in alignment with the organization’s global corporate goals and compliance initiatives.
  7. Global Equity Tax Advisory
    Increasing employee mobility, combined with the clear trend toward long-term incentive programs, creates challenges for companies.
    Not the least of these is managing complex multi-country payroll reporting and withholding tax (both individual tax and social security) obligations which often involve countries that an employee left years prior to the taxable event.
  8. International Social Security Advisory
    It might be worth to plan the social security regime to be applied in order to avoid the situation whereby the company will bear double contribution costs. It is important to define in advance the amounts due in each relevant country, considering both home and host countries.
  9. Global Immigration Services
    Managing a global workforce means observing different, complex and fast changing immigration laws worldwide.
    Increasing enforcement of the laws by the immigration authorities and severe penalties in cases of non-compliance means that companies need to be more diligent than ever about managing their global workforce.
    In conclusion, The Global Mobility Practice’s end-to-end international assignment administration can include pre-departure services, coordinating services in the host country, ongoing support and tracking, and assignee repatriation.
    In the end, it is about making the Client's job easier while looking after their staff.