International Employee Assignments & Project Business

Your challenges

The operational functions of multinational companies are usually spread across a large number of locations and projects worldwide. This leads to numerous challenges, as the regulations abroad sometimes differ significantly from those in the home country.

This applies to short and long-term assignments or business trips for

• Personal taxes such as wage & income tax,
• Social security issues,
• Immigration law requirements,
• Labour law issues and
• Registration of the employee and the company.

Your added value

• Advice from international HR experts (often native speakers, very familiar with the particularities of individual regions and countries), in German time zone and with German expertise at the same time
• Co-operation with our international WTS Global network partners, who can handle compliance on site if required

Our services

• Holistic support for (project) activities abroad through advice in all key legal areas
• Customised, practical and pragmatic solutions
• Advice on the selection of travel and secondment structures for cross-border employee assignments
• Determination and handling of compliance tasks: Drawing up secondment agreements, applying for secondment certificates, fulfilling possible registration obligations, preparing tax returns for seconded employees in Germany and abroad, etc.
• Cross-tax type interface and process consulting, e.g. in the areas of corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing

Our experts will be happy to support you on a permanent basis as a business partner or on an order-related basis.