Tax Services

Human Capital

Driving organizational success through human capital

In today’s globally integrated, tightly regulated, and increasingly competitive business environment, one critical success factor stands out: people. Your people represent one of your company’s most significant investments, and they provide you with a big opportunity to gain competitive advantage.

Ernst & Young’s Human Capital services offer a “total picture” perspective, integrating HR, tax, financial reporting, employee financial education and counseling, and a focus on staying ahead of the competition. Through our comprehensive approach, we can help you make the most of your investment in your people. We can bring the right tools to you relating to the specific challenges your company faces within each of three areas: cost and risk management, business performance improvement and workforce globalization.

Cost and risk management

Global employment tax services

Our network of human capital professionals helps clients evaluate their payroll and employment tax matters. The goal is to help employers identify and address global employment tax issues and to put in place procedures for controlling future risk and costs.

HR cost and risk

Our HR cost and risk advisory professionals combine a broad range of skills to assist clients with the strategic and operational challenges facing human resources. An HR function must control people risk in order to truly understand its costs and know how to operate efficiently. We help our clients identify and implement practical improvements that generate both cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Employee financial services

Our employee financial services professionals help organizations communicate the value and promote the effective use of benefits and compensation plans. Our team helps your employees develop skills to make informed decisions and take action to enhance financial well-being.

We can provide a range of services in this space, including: customized workshop development and delivery; personal, confidential financial counseling; web-based resources and support; and program planning, management, logistics, and communications.

Business performance improvement

Compensation and benefits

Our human capital practice provides an integrated range of executive and employee compensation and benefits services that are aligned with organizations’ strategic objectives and are sensitive to stakeholder interests while recognizing regulatory and governance requirements.

HR advisory

Our HR and payroll performance improvement professionals help companies anticipate and manage the specific operational and financial impacts and risks associated with their HR programs and processes worldwide. Our global network consists of HR strategists, technologists and professionals dedicated to process improvement, risk and controls and outsourcing advisory.

HR transactions

We advise and support companies with respect to employee and HR financial and operational issues related to a merger, acquisition, potential divestiture and/or carve-out of business, tax-free reorganization or internal reorganization, including financial and operational due diligence. By delivering pre-transaction planning and robust post-transaction action plans and guidance, our team assists your organization as you maneuver through a time of change.

Talent management

The ability to execute business strategy on a global scale is directly related to the organization’s ability to attract, retain, develop and engage key talent. We use an integrated approach for evaluating and improving the talent management practices in an organization.

With our diverse experiences, extensive knowledge and global reach, we perform detailed diagnostics and develop customized solutions that are specific to your organizational challenges and strategic business needs.

Workforce globalization

Expatriate tax services

We give clients the quality, consistency and customization necessary to support their international mobility tax function. By working with each client to understand their international employee mobility issues and organizational structure, we can tailor our expatriate tax services to meet their needs and reduce their risk.

Our market-leading global coordination allows us to provide our clients with consistent, high-quality service around the world.

Assignment services

We offer a range of services to help multinational companies manage their international assignees. Our integrated service approach reduces costs while improving assistance to assignees.

Assignment services professionals can help with pre-assignment planning, at-post support, repatriation and ongoing support in locations throughout the world.

Global immigration

Our professionals provide companies and their international assignees and business travelers with immigration advisory, global immigration coordination and immigration compliance assistance (e.g., work permit and visa applications and related status/entry documents).

International social security

We have a dedicated team focusing on social security compliance and advisory services, including global contribution and benefit compliance and planning. Effective social tax planning and controls can drive compliance, reduce risk and generate cost savings for international organizations.

Compensation accumulation

The compensation programs used by global organizations are quite complex, with pay often delivered from multiple locations in a variety of ways. The environment for compensation reporting involves an increased level of risk, as more and more countries focus on payroll taxes as a source of additional revenue.

Human Capital’s compensation accumulation professionals provide global alternatives to assist clients in alleviating risks associated with compensation reporting.

Global equity

Using an established, proven methodology coupled with our leading technology, human capital's global equity professionals assist multinational companies in designing, implementing, communicating and administering effective compensation-related benefits for their employees worldwide.

Global mobility policy advisory

Global mobility policy advisory professionals provide companies with mobility policy design and implementation assistance, process design and improvement and general advice on policies with respect to their assignment of employees within and outside the employee's home county.

Our team will help you strike the right balance with your global mobility policies, keeping you competitive while incentivizing your employees to take international assignments when needed.

Traveler risk and compliance

Business travelers who have traveled overseas enough times may trigger a tax or immigration violation, exposing the individual as well as the company to a myriad of risks. Traveler risk and compliance professionals help companies manage the tax and immigration issues associated with business travelers and short-term assignees outside of their home country.