International Assignment

Harness the value of global mobility of your people while managing risk

For the world’s leading organizations, deployment of talent is the key to success. Whatever the mission – sharing knowledge, implementing management processes or expanding business into new territories - assignees provide the fuel for global growth.


If this is your situation

• You need to ensure that your international assignment policies are aligned with and meet the needs of your business while being cost efficient
• You want to use technology globally to monitor assignee tax compliance
• You need tax-efficient international assignment structures and policies
• You need to manage risks by complying with regulations in the locations where your global workforce is deployed
• You want to ensure that stock options comply with local regulations and are tax efficient

• Post arrival / pre departure formalities with documentation
• Structuring reward and benefit packages from a tax perspective
• Structuring of assignments, including reviewing employment contracts from a tax perspective
• Assistance with formulating and implementing tax equalization policies, including monitoring the tax equalization processes
• Evaluation of treaties to examine taxability and availability of tax treaty relief
• Assistance in setting up tax withholding processes including running of tax withholding calculations and filing of related returns
• Maintaining shadow payroll in India for tax withholding for expatriates
• Preparation and filing of employees’ tax returns
• Representation services – where tax returns are selected for audit, etc.
• Employees stock plans – formulating and advising on tax impact, tax compliance
• Fringe Benefit Tax – impact analysis and assessments