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Cases · People & private matters · Immigration, visas & global mobility

Design expatriate compensation

How should we pay staff we send abroad?

WONE Global designs the package with tax, payroll and employment professionals in the home and host countries: salary basis, allowances, tax equalisation, pensions and social security, set out in a policy you can apply to every assignee.

Countries in the typical case India · United States · United Kingdom · Germany

The situation

What is happening

What is at stake

Badly designed packages for staff sent abroad are expensive, feel unfair to the people on them and are often taxed twice.

A scenario

IT services companyCorporation · from India · in United States, United Kingdom, Germany

It sends 50 engineers to the US and Europe.

Where it ends Fair packages, taxed correctly.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Expatriate pay and allowances”“Tax equalisation for assignees”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global designs the package with tax, payroll and employment professionals in the home and host countries: salary basis, allowances, tax equalisation, pensions and social security, set out in a policy you can apply to every assignee.

Usually led by Employment, payroll and immigration, with Tax and structuring.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Weeks 1-2WONE Global reviews tax and social security.
  2. Week 3Package designed.
  3. Week 4Policy issued.
  4. ThenApplied to every assignee.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Home-based, host-based or hybrid pay
  2. 02Tax equalisation or protection
  3. 03Allowances, housing and schooling

Outcomes

What you receive

  • An expatriate compensation policy
  • Tax and social-security modelling
  • Assignment letters that reflect it

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Services

The services involved

One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.

  1. Usually leadsEmployment, payroll and immigration5 markets with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedTax and structuring17 markets with a named lead→

Who handles it

Employment, payroll and immigration, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Germanyin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. Indiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. United Kingdomin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  4. United Statesin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  5. Argentina WONE Global Partner Dr. Esteban Lucio Maccari · Managing Director Brief this Partner →
  6. Kenya WONE Global Partner James Ngochi Ngugi · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  7. South Africa WONE Global Partner Johan Beer · Partner Brief this Partner →
  8. Switzerland WONE Global Partner Michael Sterchi · Founder Brief this Partner →
  9. Vietnam WONE Global Partner Le Quoc Duy · Chairman - Lawyer Brief this Partner →
  10. Saudi Arabia On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  11. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  12. United Arab Emirates On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Dr. Esteban Lucio MaccariBuenos Aires · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Esteban Lucio Maccari

Managing Director · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Buenos Aires

He is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Spanish Law. He completed postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Glocoll at…

Le Quoc DuyHo Chi Minh City · Vietnam

WONE Global Capability Partner · Vietnam

Le Quoc Duy

Chairman - Lawyer · Vina TPT Company Limited · Ho Chi Minh City

Over 20 years of experience specializing in legal matters and practical operations for Japanese businesses in Vietnam (investment law, corporate law, labor, commerce, intellectual property, and tax).

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