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Payroll is primarily about calculating, paying and reporting salary paid to employees but who else might be dragged into the payroll net? Many countries will set requirements for payroll style withholding and reporting and if you are operating overseas you might be surprised just who you will have statutory responsibilities for. Examples of payees that you may have obligations for include:

 

  • Company pensioners
  • Office holders and Directors
  • Labour only sub-contractors
  • Those deemed self-employed for tax but employed for social insurance purposes
  • Certain types of self-employed workers who don’t have employment rights but do have to be payrolled with full deductions
  • Interns
  • Other personal payments

 

Paying people is payroll business, and your company will likely expect you to be an expert in all aspects of such payments. And if a responsibility for making deductions is also included, then it’s difficult to see how such work will not end up in the payroll team’s lap. A further driver for such arrangements has been an increasing global focus on employment status and the attendant loss of taxation revenue that national governments perceive to be the outcome when people are classified as self-employed. Just consider the impact of the recent cases involving Uber and Lyft. 

 

By requiring payers to in effect operate payroll style deductions much of the attraction of self- employment is removed. But careful consideration of such records is needed – for example such records should not inflate headcount statistics for determining employer levies set by employee numbers. 

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Kelsey’s Payroll Services Ltd

Tim Kelsey

Tim has worked in the Payroll Industry for 33 years, for many years as a Payroll Manager for large UK organisations paying up to 18,000 employees. His particular specialism is international payroll, and he has run payrolls from Kingston, Jamaica to Entebbe, Uganda, and most places in between. In 2007 he formed his own company, and now spends much of his time writing and lecturing on all aspects of global payroll. He is a regular lecturer for PayrollOrg, IPASS, CIPP and many more payroll and HR training companies covering payroll rules in countries such as the UK, China, India, France and Germany.

When not lecturing or writing, he also provides a range of specialist consultancy services to the industry, primarily focused on international payroll requirements. He has contacts within the payroll industry around the world and likes nothing more than to talk “payroll” at global gatherings!