Our German payroll services include these aspects, among others:

  • Assessment of wage tax issues (in the context of current payroll accounting or in opinions and expert reports)
  • Complete support for special payroll accounting (expatriates, board members, project assignments, business travellers)*.
  • Filing of applications for foreign assignments (e.g. applications for wage tax exemption; applications for tax class 1 for persons with limited tax liability, etc.)
  • Electronic processing of income tax returns, social security notifications and contribution payments
  • Support during company audits with regard to German wage tax and social insurance
  • Training of payroll accountants on the implementation of international payroll accounting in SAP
  • Comparative calculation of special payroll accounting with SAP

Our global synchronised payroll services include these aspects:

  • Automated salary data import and preparation of your salary data from SAP, People Soft etc.
  • Tax optimisation of salary components, in accordance with the respective national law
  • Carrying out (de-)registration to obtain a tax or national insurance number
  • Unification of your worldwide processes to a standard defined for the group of companies
  • Professional project-related communication during the implementation of the processes and structures of a global, synchronised payroll accounting for your group of companies
  • Single point of contact via our international team in Frankfurt am Main
  • Preparation of a so-called Payroll Instruction Sheet for the respective payroll at home or abroad
  • Accompaniment or execution of the payroll at home and abroad
  • Monitoring of your payroll deadlines and the process of payments to the tax authorities
  • Reconciliation of payrolls and subsequent return of information and instructions for the next payroll runs
  • Monitoring of legal changes at home and abroad and implementation of the necessary steps in the respective payroll run

* We provide our advisory services subject to an examination of the admissibility of these services under professional law by KPMG in the specific individual case. Restrictions may apply in particular to the services marked with *.