HR and Global mobility update
In our newsletter, we provide you with concise information on innovations and interesting facts in the HR and Global mobility area regarding taxes, social security, labor law, payroll and immigration.
Global businesses require flexible and mobile workforces. Deploying staff on global assignments can create escalating challenges for managing the risks arising from tax, social security, immigration, payroll and corporation tax considerations for both home and host countries.
Whether you are a multinational enterprise with a large expatriate population or deploying your first international assignee, a foreign national moving to Switzerland, or a Swiss national moving overseas, our Global Mobility Services team can provide flexible support to help you manage the challenges relating to global mobility filing and reporting, tax, social, legal and obligations.
Mazars is one of the leading global mobility services firms which can assist in 86 countries, sharing the same high quality level of service delivering. With dedicated experts in all fields of Global Mobility, we can assist you on a cross-boarder basis to ensure your assignment and / or international transfer are properly managed in both home and host countries.
Mazars can provide a wide range of global mobility tax services including:
- Advising on global mobility strategies and cases of assignment and / or international transfer for an income tax, social security, immigration, payroll and labour law perspective.
- Advising on payroll tax obligations
- Maximising the use of expatriate tax incentives
- Advising on social security requirements
- Providing immigration support services, e.g., work permits and visas
- Providing tax compliance services for inbound and outbound assignees
- Advising on the tax treatment of share-based remuneration for internationally mobile employees
- Designing employer global mobility policies for short-term and long-term assignments
- Advising and assisting international mobile individuals in managing their personal situation in an international working environment.
Workation? Yes, of course, but without surprises!
The summer holidays are just around the corner and HR managers and supervisors soon will be overrun with workation requests for flexible and location-independent work from anywhere. As an attractive employer, many companies want to meet the wishes of their employees in order not to lose them in times of the skilled workers shortage. They therefore want to enable their employees to work from (almost)...
Commuters | Home office and social security
The need for more home office work, especially for employees with a country of residence outside of Switzerland, for example a cross-border commuter from France, continues to be strong and is unlikely to flatten out in the near future. In this article, we briefly summarise the upcoming changes to the current exemption agreement for cross-border commuters from EU/EFTA countries, which was communicated...
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Deborah Joye Partner - Head of Tax Romandie Lausanne
