Human Capital Advisory

Our Human Capital Advisory services team can assist you in all aspects of employee related issues including:

• Employment tax advice and compliance
• Equity incentive scheme selection, design and implementation
• Global mobility
• Immigration assistance
• A broad range of HR services to support your business objectives
• National Minimum Wage compliance

Our specialist Human Capital Advisory team are a specific dedicated team drawn from key services such as employment tax, global mobility, share incentives and HR solutions. This multidisciplinary team offers a complete service for all your workforce planning and management.

As an employer, people are your greatest assets and at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, we understand your needs and stay at the forefront of changes in employment regulation, to deliver the best advice and guidance for the unique requirements of the workforce of your business.

Employment tax advice

Employment tax risk is an important area to consider. Our tax specialists can help with all aspects of employment tax including the latest on IR35. With our help you will be able to create and manage efficient employment tax strategies and gives you the confidence that any tax obligations for your business are dealt with effectively and efficiently.

We can help you in all areas including:

• Employer compliance and interactions with HMRC
• PAYE and payroll health-checks
• Employment status and IR35
• Tax issues relating to mobile workers
• Termination payment tax advice
• Salary sacrifice arrangements and benefits advice
• National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage advice and compliance
• Guidance on off-payroll workers in both the public and private sector
• Construction Industry Scheme compliance
• Company car fleet reviews

Share incentive scheme implementation

It is important to ensure that you motivate and reward your key employees correctly to ensure long-term growth for your business. We can help you decide and design what is best for your business, whether it is HMRC tax advantaged plans such as:

• Enterprise Management Incentives
• Company Share Option Plans
• Share Incentive Plans
• Save As You Earn Option Plans.

or equity arrangements which combine reward effectiveness with tax efficiencies using the general tax rules such as:

• Growth Share Plans and Target Share Plans
• Deferred Share Plans
• Joint Share Ownership Plans
• Unapproved Share Options Plans.

Our service combines tax advice, company and share valuation work as well as the legal drafting needed to implement your selected equity incentive plan.  We can also assist you in the associated HMRC annual reporting requirements for whatever plans you decide to implement.

Global workforce mobility

In today’s business environment employers find themselves managing an increasingly international workforce. Cross-border employment creates complexity from a tax, social security and payroll perspective.

Through our membership of Baker Tilly International, we can help you with the following:

• International assignment or secondment structuring
• UK employees moving overseas
• Foreign nationals coming to work in the UK
• Business visitor tracking
• Cross-border commuters
• Non-resident directors
• Foreign-based employees of UK companies

We can help you work through the challenges of global mobility to ensure all compliance obligations are met and that any planning opportunities are considered.

Workforce immigration assistance

Ensuring that individuals have the legal right to work in the country is critical. We can help support you in achieving this when you have non-UK nationals working for you.

We can help you with the following:

• Analysis of the individual’s position
• Sponsorship Licence applications
• Skilled Worker and Intra Company Transfer visa applications
• Spousal visa applications
• EU workers’ applications for settled status

We have been appointed by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) as a registered advisor for Level 1 Immigration Advice and Services since January 2017.

HR outsourcing services

Your business may not be big enough to warrant a full-time HR department but you will still have HR issues you haven’t got the time or expertise to deal with. We can help in all aspects of transactional HR support including:

• Provision of compliant Contracts of Employment and HR policies
• Advice on any employee relations issues e.g. disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence, family-friendly leave etc
• Managing restructures, redundancy situations, consultations or TUPE transfers
• Performance management and appraisal process design and implementation
• On-site support at employee meetings in respect of any of the above
• Managing recruitment and selection needs
• Gender Pay Gap Reporting
• Complete outsourcing of all HR support services

We can also help you in more strategic HR support such as organisational structure and strategy; setting of KPIs; cultural and behavioural guidance (e.g. in respect of absence) to maximise the effectiveness of your organisation.

Please contact us to discuss your human capital advisory needs and find out more about how we can assist you and your employees. 

As well as human capital advice our firm can advise and assist on related areas such as payroll, pension auto-enrolment and employee ownership.