Employers Taxes

In an increasingly complex environment, Irish and international employers face ever greater challenges in dealing with the tax and social security implications of recruiting, rewarding, retaining and incentivising their employees. Employers are now faced with a host of tax challenges from PAYE/PRSI to Relevant Contracts Tax (RCT) to Professional Services Withholding Tax (PSWT). In this ever increasing risk averse environment, the focus on remaining tax compliant and controlling costs is essential.

Is your business grappling with:

• ensuring your business is PAYE/PRSI, RCT and PSWT compliant
• understanding the PAYE/PRSI treatment of benefits-in-kind (BIKs) and expenses including petty cash, expense claims, company credit card claims etc
• ensuring your business has structured their remuneration policy in the most tax-efficient and cost effective manner
• ensuring the PAYE/PRSI compliance of your assignee population, including shadow payrolls, PAYE Exclusion Orders, PAYE Exemption Applications
• understanding the effect the new EU social security regulations will have on your internationally mobile workforce
• ensuring the correct payroll operation of the income levy
• an upcoming Revenue Audit – is your business prepared?
• design and/or implementation of employment policies and practices including relocation policies, expense policies etc
• design and review of employee reward and compensation framework
• salary sacrifice queries
• reducing costs while incentivising employees
• downsizing/redundancies
• ensuring the appropriate tax treatment of contractors/consultants

How we can support you:

We can assist you with all of the above challenges and many others such as:

• advise on the appropriate tax treatment of employee costs to ensure you are compliant and manage risk
• advise on tax efficient solutions to control costs and still incentivise employees
• ensure your policies and practices are tax compliant
• we offer full servicing of your payroll function