Knowledge Webinar "Employees Relocated Abroad: Labor and Tax Aspects"

The war pushed businesses to rethink their development strategies and people management. Many had to relocate employees and production chains to other countries. The relocation entailed a need to optimize and reshape labor relations, as well as to learn more about the taxation of employees' incomes in Ukraine and the countries of actual stay. During the webinar, INTEGRITES lawyers addressed the questions of employers whose teams remain employed with them after relocation abroad.

During the webinar we discussed:

1. Relocation of employees to other countries: labor law aspects
   • Ways to arrange work abroad:
     • Remote work
     • Business trip
     • Secondment
     • Employment with a foreign company
   • Dealing with inactive employees:
     • Vacations
     • Suspension of the employment agreement
     • Peculiarities and problematic issues of dismissal
2. Relocation of employees to other countries: tax law aspects
   • Tax residency
   • The country of income taxation
   • Peculiarities of social security charges
   • Double tax treaties – do they help to avoid double taxation
   • Risks for the employer when relocating the staff abroad

Speakers:

Viktoriya Fomenko, Partner, Tax and Customs, INTEGRITES.
Viktoriya Fomenko leads the Tax and Customs team and co-heads the Private Client practice. Having 23 years of experience, Viktoriya handles complex cases as an advisor of choice to large international and Ukrainian companies, representative offices of foreign companies in Ukraine. Her practice spans a wide range of issues, including general advice on tax planning of operations, tax structuring of business, including in foreign jurisdictions, challenging the results of the tax audits via administrative procedure and in courts.

Inna Kostrytska, Counsel, Employment, INTEGRITES.
Inna Kostrytska serves as Co-Chair of the Human Capital Committee of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. She leads the Employment practice at INTEGRITES and chairs the firm’s HR Club. Over 17 years of her career, Inna has consolidated in-depth expertise in labor law and structuring labor relations. She specializes in all kinds of employment issues related to sale or acquisition of business and complex reorganizations, labor audits, staff redundancy, compensation & incentives, work discipline and compliance investigations, negotiations with trade unions and labor disputes.