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      Making moves with global mobility services. Explore how we can support your mobile workforce strategy.


      Supporting the company's expatriates in remaining globally tax compliant

      Design an international assignment program that supports the company’s overall business strategy

      Help determine which type of visa and work permit is most suitable to an assignee's needs

      Advise the company and the expatriate on how to derive long-term tax savings

      Introduce the latest technology to improve mobility management


      Global Cross-border Mobility Solutions

      Aligning your global workforce and business strategy

      A Streamlined Global Mobility Support

       

      Today's mobile workforce faces the challenge of keeping up with new compliance rules. To address this, R.G. Manabat & Co.’s Global Mobility Services (GMS) practice combines extensive tax, advisory, technology, and immigration services to provide an easier, safer, and more efficient way to manage your global workforce. Our mobility solutions offer an integrated compliance approach that aligns with the requirements of both the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. By the time an expatriate's work permit and visa are submitted, their corresponding tax filing requirements have already been planned. 

      The Clear Choice

       

      To help align your global strategy with business objectives, we provide:

      • A clear and transparent approach, backed by extensive experience in delivering tax and immigration services
      • Tax advisory services and seminars for clients to help achieve accurate and timely tax reporting
      • Innovative, flexible programs and streamlined solutions tailored to the needs of your workforce

      What We Offer

      Tax

      We support in the tax compliance of expatriates, including tax filings, employer compliance, mobility consulting, and international tax strategies to ensure global compliance and optimize tax savings. 

       

      Advisory

      We provide advisory services that include due diligence for tax compliance and mobility consulting. Advisory covers tax risk assessment in mergers, acquisitions, and global expansions, as well as strategic and administrative support for international assignments, policy development, and employee mobility management. 

      Immigration

      We render seamless immigration services, from visa and work permit compliance to document legalization and advisory support. Using KPMG technology, we streamline case management and ensure compliance with current regulations. Our services include investor and retiree visas, labor registrations, departure formalities, and work permits for business travel, assignments, and local employment.

       

      KPMG Global Mobility Technology

      We provide innovative and powerful resources that international assignees and program managers can rely on throughout the assignment period, offering a single portal for all stakeholders involved in managing a globally mobile population. With tailored views for each user and configurable workflows, our technology supports key processes across the assignment lifecycle, based on the tools you utilize to ensure streamlined and efficient global mobility management.


      Tax

      Compliance and Advisory Services
      • Departure and arrival tax briefings 
      • Employer tax compliance 
      • Hypothetical tax calculations and reconciliations
      • Personal tax return preparation 
      • Employment tax services 
      • Tax equalization calculation 
      • Social Security Declarations - Certificate of Coverage application, social security registration and deregistration 
      • Mobility consulting 
      • Compensation and rewards planning/restructuring 
      • Due diligence advisory
      What we do:
      • Advise the company and the expatriate on how to derive long-term tax savings
      • Design an international assignment program that supports the company’s overall business strategy
      • Anticipate and communicate complex issues that may arise (e.g., double taxation)

      Advisory

      Due Diligence Advisory Services

       

      When your company needs to evaluate tax compliance, our team can provide a variety of services, from assisting with evaluating permanent establishment issues to helping assess potential unrecorded liabilities associated with globally mobile employees. Companies often ignore the tax aspects of transactions such as acquisitions, mergers, movements into new countries, or joint ventures. If a significant amount of your business is from offshore operations where employees can have hidden or unexpected financial consequences, our network can help you evaluate these types of transactions from a tax perspective. 

      Mobility Consulting Services

       

      Our GMS practice offers a broad array of strategic (advisory) and administrative (outsourcing) services to help improve business processes, including: 

      • Policy review, design, and development
      • International assignment process improvement and reengineering 
      • Process manuals and guides 
      • International assignee assessment and repatriation planning
      • Assignee communications
      • Tailored benchmarking surveys
      • Employee feedback surveys

      Immigration

      Compliance Services
      • Visas for investors and retirees 
      • Visas and work permits for business travel, short term and long term assignments, and local employment
      • Departure formalities for end of employment 
      • Labor-related registration for multinational companies
      What we do:
      • Assess and obtain the appropriate visa and work permit requirements for a global workforce. 
      • What we do: Assist in securing legalizations and attestations required. 
      • Support Human Resources or Global Mobility in responding to changes in immigration policies and reflecting the latest regulations in its immigration program. 
      • Provide technology-abled support to Human Resources or Global Mobility with instant case assessments, detailing documentary requirements, timelines, and red flags.

      KPMG Global Mobility Technology

       

      Our web-based, integrated, and user-friendly tools can be tailored to a company’s assignment program and can be used in multiple languages. 

      KPMG Link GO

      Acts as a consolidated system for all stakeholders, helping manage a globally mobile population. It provides customized views for each user and adjustable workflows to support essential processes throughout the assignment life cycle, based on the tools being used.     

      Business Traveler 

      Helps companies and employees quantify the risks associated with entry requirements, income tax, social tax, and permanent establishment. 

      Cost Projector

      Quantifies the assignment and tax costs associated with sending employees on both short and long-term international assignments. 

      Global Payroll Manager

      Helps streamline the collection and reporting of global compensation for traveling employees by leveraging automated data feeds, configurable cutoff dates, and a reconciliation engine allowing you to see discrepancies in your payroll instruction and actual pay amounts. 

      Global Equity Tracker

      Assists companies manage payroll reporting and withholding obligations for incentive compensation of mobile employees through a flexible, web-based application. 

      Enterprise Assignment Manager

      Provides an end-to-end process and data management solution with integrated analytics, workflows, and robust reporting functionality. 



      Our Insights

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      The most pressing business issues and opportunities facing global mobility leaders and their global workforces.

      Global Mobility Assist is a suite of data driven technology tools, supporting your organization's globally mobile people.

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      Karen Jane S. Vergara-Manese

      Tax Partner

      R.G. Manabat & Co.



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      We combine our multi-disciplinary approach with deep, practical industry knowledge to help clients meet challenges and respond to opportunities. Connect with our team to start the conversation. 

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