Employment tax and payroll services
Simplify the complexities
Organisations are increasingly complex, with businesses in multiple territories having to navigate interactions amongst stakeholders, workers crossing borders and the myriad of different country and regional legislation and taxation regimes.
Added to this are new business models and an increasingly non-traditional workforce mix, bringing together employees and a vast array of different contractual arrangements, ‘gig’ talent and other contingent workers.
All of this means the difficulty and risk associated with workers continues to rise dramatically and businesses need an adviser that can meet all their employment and payroll needs.
PwC’s network of employment tax and payroll professionals globally has extensive knowledge to navigate the various challenges of meeting employment tax obligations, but also proactively managing employment tax costs.
Businesses need to ensure that they understand and are managing:
- The accurate classification of workers and the correct payment thereof.
- Robust governance around employment tax and payroll systems and processes, including effective controls around the use of automation, including AI.
- The tax and social security risks that their reward policies and working practices may be creating.
- Which countries those risks are arising in and where they are greatest.
- The impact of current and impending legislative changes.
- The extent to which they are impacted by social legislative requirements.
- The operational effectiveness of their payroll function and the extent to which they can get valuable business insights from the analytics and reporting capabilities it can provide.
Our Employment Tax and Payroll practice has vast experience to support businesses on all of these points, share insights and deliver optimal outcomes for your organisation.
Our global network
With over 2,100 specialists in 97 countries, our global network works together to help you navigate the risks, costs, and operational challenges of managing a workforce anywhere in the world.
“In this increasingly complex global environment, employers face unique challenges dealing with the tax implications of recruiting, rewarding, retaining and incentivising their employees, particularly when you consider an environment where location is no longer such an issue.”
How we can help
Our employment tax and payroll specialists take a proactive and global approach to the often neglected costs associated with remunerating a workforce.
We also suuport businesses to understand how effectively their employment tax function supports their corporate needs with strong compliance and governance. We can help with:
- Employment tax
- Employment risk
- Employment cost reduction
- Domestic and global payroll
Employment tax
We work with businesses to develop their global employment tax strategy, understand and comply with its employer taxation obligations and prepare for tax authority reviews. We help to validate internal processes to control risks and costs and, if compliance failures occur, we work with you on remediation and can negotiate directly with tax authorities.
As employers are increasingly navigating multiple jurisdictions with numerous tax and regulatory authorities our team can help clients navigate these complexities whilst maximising the benefits for both people and business.
Employment risk
We support clients to understand and mitigate current and emerging employment risks caused by legislation and regulation, including minimum wage, pay ratios and other pay fairness issues.
We help strengthen risk management controls, policies and procedures and we work closely with PwC’s employment lawyers to identify risks related to employment structures and contracts.
Employment cost reduction
We work with organisations to understand their total employment tax costs and to identify the controllable elements.
We can support restructuring pay and benefits arrangements, such as salary sacrifice schemes, flexible working arrangements and cost-effective benefit schemes to reduce employer costs.
Domestic and global payroll
We support organisations to review the current design of their payroll delivery model and efficiency of the payroll function. We also support transforming Payroll operations to minimise compliance risk, streamline processes, standardise controls and improve efficiency and flexibility.
We have payroll experts in 160 countries / territories who assure accuracy and compliance whilst advising and consulting.
We also help to make the most of payroll data and get people analytics right.
