Employment tax is an evolving landscape. Employers need to ensure their tax compliance and employee obligations are up to date, and this can be both time consuming and costly - and a risk to get it wrong. To cover your compliance requirements and control your costs, you need a team focussed on aligning your business and commercial needs with the regulations.

How BDO can help

Our services include:

Pay-As-You-Go Withholding (PAYG)

• Compliance reviews/health checks
• Employee/contractor determinations
• Non-resident directors
• Variations
• PAYG advice and consulting.

Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT)

• Review and preparation of returns
• Compliance reviews/health checks
• FBT policies and manuals
• FBT advice and consulting
• Australian Taxation Office (ATO) audit representation
• Salary packaging.

Superannuation Guarantee (SG)

• Compliance reviews and health checks
• Expanded meaning of “employee”
• Availability of exemptions
• SG advice and consulting.

Employee Share Schemes (ESS)

• Assistace in the design of plans
• Tax compliance and effectiveness reviews
• Alternative executive remuneration arrangements
• ESS employee guidelines
• ESS advice and consulting
• ATO audit representation
• ESS reporting.

Payroll tax

• Monthly payroll tax returns
• Annual reconciliations
• Audit representation.

Other employment taxes

• Employment termination payments
• Workers’ compensation.

If your Employment Taxes issues relate to expatriate or mobile employees you may also benefit from support from BDO’s specialists in Global Expatriate Services, Migration Services and Transfer Pricing (in respect of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting).