Jamie Rathjen

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jamie Rathjen

Paying expatriate employees requires knowing the basics of how employee movement affects tax liability, becoming familiar with treaties, and, above all, learning from mistakes, a payroll practitioner said May 16. “Usually, foreign compliance is learned the hard way, and the problem with us in payroll, we’re often the Eeyore of the business” telling other parts of the company not to do something, said Tim Kelsey, FCIPP, AIPA, managing director of Kelsey’s Payroll Services Ltd.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jamie Rathjen

Canada’s system of federal and subnational income taxes, social taxes, and subnational payroll taxes may be in line to benefit from real-time payroll data submissions in the future, an executive from Canada’s National Payroll Institute said May 15.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jamie Rathjen

Professional employer organizations, more common in the US, and employers of record, more common internationally, both originated out of employee leasing services allowing employers to more easily comply with employment and tax laws, but the two models have different services and responsibilities, two payroll professionals said May 15.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jamie Rathjen

Holidays and the pay and leave entitlements surrounding them are among the most complex parts of Canadian jurisdictions’ labor laws, an executive from Canada’s National Payroll Institute said May 14. At a general level, Canadian labor laws are based on the jurisdiction where the employee works, said Steven Van Alstine, PLP, the NPI’s vice president of professional standards and education.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jamie Rathjen

Global payroll documentation — including forms, returns, and payslips — represents the flow of key payroll information between the employer, employee, and jurisdiction, a practitioner said May 14. Broadly, documents can either be provided to the employer by the employee, provided to the employee by the employer when required, or filed by the employer with a jurisdiction, Tim Kelsey, FCIPP, AIPA, managing director of Kelsey’s Payroll Services Ltd., said.