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The United States welcomes over 300,000 foreign national assignees every year in managerial, technical and consulting professions. And while their skills, talents, families and belongings all make the trip safely, their ...

As an employee weighs in on the pros and cons of accepting a long-term international assignment or permanent relocation, he or she is faced with a multitude of concerns, from the most sophisticated tax questions to basic ...

For the purposes of this article, we have assumed there is a US payroll reporting requirement (i.e. either the home or host location is in the United States.)

Overview When a Canadian taxpayer owns "specified foreign property," which is generally any foreign investment property costing more than C$100,000 at any time in the year, they are required by the Canadian Income Tax Act to complete ...

Introduction In the March 2014 newsletter, we presented a high-level overview of both worldwide and territorial corporate tax systems. In this article, we consider how the physical presence of employees in a host country can cause the ...

With the numbers of individuals moving to the UK increasing, and the tax rules changing so dramatically for mobile employees, it is now more important than ever to ensure that all mobile employees have access to professional tax ...

Travel can be frustrating for your mobile employees if they do not have the right resources. In this month's newsletter, our guest author, Cathy Heyne, GMS, Managing Director, Marketing & Business Development for Living Abroad ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered what the professionals in your company’s tax department do? How are your company’s taxes computed and how do they affect your bottom-line Earnings per Share numbers? In this newsletter, we’ll ...

As a follow-up to our January 2014 newsletter regarding short-term assignments, in this month’s newsletter, Brett Sipes, a Director in GTN’s Pacific region, highlights the impact of income tax treaties on the tax cost of short-term ...

Short-term international assignments are increasingly being utilized within many companies' international assignment programs. A short-term international assignment is often defined by companies as an assignment of greater than 30 ...