GTN Mobility Tax Blog

Tax equalization is a policy widely used by companies with mobile employees. At its core, tax equalization is a mechanism to ensure that an employee is neither better nor worse off financially, from a tax perspective, for having accepted an international assignment. However, there are many misconceptions about what exactly it means to be “tax equalized.” One common misconception is that implementing the policy will automatically result in high company costs and administrative burdens.

If your company has tax equalized assignees, you may have heard from employees who’ve received unexpected tax bills, have yet to settle their tax equalization payments, and/or are confused about how their tax liabilities were calculated. If any of these rings a bell, now is the time to re-examine the hypothetical tax positions for your mobile employees.