Expatriate tax planning: A complex issue?

Maintaining internal equity and local competitiveness is essential to attracting and retaining the right employees. Sending employees on international assignment to a foreign country requires the balancing of many variables. It is therefore important to understand and assess employees overall tax burden faced by the expatriate.

In a "balance sheet" approach, the intent is to guarantee the equivalent Net pay to the employee abroad as he or she enjoys at home. To enable equalization of the net income, we first have to deduct the employee's hypothetical social security and tax amounts. Having a good knowledge of the individual taxation and mandatory social security contributions will help the employer to measure the real value of your employee's salary - demonstrating how much will cover taxes and social security, and how much will be left over for the employee.

Why attend

Join Mercer global mobility experts, Corné J. Leeuwenhaag (International Taxation product manager) and Slagin Parakatil (Quality of Living & International Taxation department head) who will present main tax planning ideas, the concept of the avoidance of double taxation and all supported by specific case study examples.

Presentation will cover the following points:

• Understanding key topics such as employment income, residence and their tax correlation.
• Discuss the basic rule of avoidance of double taxation.
• Main tax planning such as tax equalization or tax protection, looking at both advantages and disadvantages.
• Analysing specific case studies.

Who should attend

This webcast will benefit any HR professional involved in the management of expatriates or administration of expatriate policies as well as anyone else interested in expatriate management.

Speakers

Slagin Parakatil, Mercer Geneva
Corné J. Leeuwenhaag, Mercer Amsterdam