Global Mobility

Global Mobility – We help you manage the tax risk associated with your global staff movements

We support employers before, during and throughout an international secondment using a combination of:

  • Global Assignment Policy Design & Review – we help you draft your global assignment policy
  • SAIL Secondment App – our app allows you to track all your global secondments, key dates and discussions with your staff
  • Cost of Living Adjustments – our calculators and indices help you easily make key decisions around staff package adjustments
  • Employer Strategy Meeting – for each secondment we meet with you to discuss the key issues and agree any cost of living adjustments
  • Employee Education & Ongoing Support – we support your employees by educating them on the key issues and keep in contact so they don’t feel isolated

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Global Mobility Unpacked

We partner with businesses at every stage to deliver a complete tax advisory and support solution:

Global Assignment Policy Design & Review

We:

  • Review or draft your Global Assignment Policy
  • Align tax equalisation / protection frameworks
  • Define COLA methodology
  • Clarify home vs host payroll approach
  • Address social security and totalisation risks

We ensure your policy is:

✔ Commercially viable
✔ Tax efficient
✔ Fair to employees
✔ Administratively workable

The SAIL Secondment App

Our proprietary SAIL Secondment App provides:

  • Logging of new international assignments
  • Key tax & immigration date reminders
  • Record of advice provided to employer and employee
  • COLA tracking
  • Assignment timeline dashboard

This gives HR and Finance:

📊 Visibility
🗂 Structure
⏰ Deadline control
📁 Centralised documentation

Employer Strategy Meeting

Before the assignment begins, we meet with the employer to:

  • Model tax exposure in home and host countries
  • Discuss permanent establishment risks
  • Determine payroll structure
  • Agree cost of living allowance methodology
  • Review benefit equalisation
  • Align on communication strategy

You leave this session with clarity on:
✔ Cost
✔ Risk
✔ Structure
✔ Documentation

Employee Education & Ongoing Support

We then meet directly with the employee to:

  • Explain host country tax obligations
  • Clarify residency rules
  • Discuss payroll implications
  • Educate on reporting requirements
  • Provide a practical Q&A forum

Follow-up meetings ensure:

  • No surprises
  • Ongoing compliance
  • Confident, supported assignees

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“There is nothing better than good advice, and nothing worse than not listening to it.”

Jonathan Aitken, Founder of SAIL International