Webinar: Navigating the risks and opportunities of remote working

Join ITR and KPMG China at 10am BST on October 19 as they discuss the personal, employment, and corporate tax-related implications of employees working from overseas.

Cross-border remote working is placing unprecedented demands on tax, human resources, and global mobility teams.

Demand for remote working has been driven by different situations – some still COVID-related, but increasingly by employees seeking flexibility because of their personal circumstances. However, accommodating requests to work overseas can raise a host of personal, employment, and corporate tax issues.

There is no single solution.

Therefore, each organisation is looking to navigate their way through the challenges by balancing the technical issues and practical considerations in a way that suits its unique circumstances.

In this webinar, human resources and corporate tax experts from KPMG will engage in a panel discussion on the issues that arise when employees work from overseas, how employers and governments are responding to these challenges, and how the future of remote working might look.

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Murray Sarelius

Head of people services KPMG China

Murray is head of people services for KPMG China, covering Mainland China and Hong Kong. He has more than 25 years of experience with tax issues impacting individuals and businesses operating internationally.

Murray has a focus on immigration, reward, and employer tax issues, particularly for mobile employees.

Recently, Murray has worked extensively with remote working arrangements and the related business and tax issues that arise as clients strive to adapt to the needs of the current environment.

Gabriel Ho

People services director KPMG China

Gabriel is a director at KPMG Hong Kong. With over 13 years of experience in global mobility, rewards, and international tax matters, he works with a number of large Hong Kong-based organisations with regional and international operations.

Gabriel is well versed in employment and individual tax matters in the region.

He works extensively with clients on remote working arrangements, and rewards such as employee share incentive plans.

Isabel Liu

People services director KPMG China

Isabel is a tax director with people services in Hong Kong. Prior to joining KPMG, she worked as the head of salaries taxation for seven years with a Hong Kong-based listed company and worked in another ‘big four’ professional firm for over ten years.

Isabel specialises in providing Hong Kong and PRC individual income taxation services to local and multinational companies. Having worked in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in professional and commercial capacities, she has extensive experience in advising companies on structure and implementing pragmatic solutions for complex mobility initiatives while ensuring tax compliance.

Isabel has assisted companies in numerous industries, including finance, property, manufacturing, aviation, and logistics.

Matthew Fenwick

Corporate tax partner KPMG China

Matthew has provided tax advisory and compliance services to many multinational clients over a number of years, having worked for the KPMG corporate tax practices in New Zealand, the UK, and Hong Kong. He has a focus on Hong Kong-specific and regional tax issues.

Matthew’s work covers the full spectrum of tax advisory and compliance services, as well as providing advice in relation to the tax implications of changes or other developments in relevant tax, accounting, and regulatory law and practice. In particular, he has worked on many strategic M&A, divestment, market entry/exit, restructuring, rationalisation, and business advisory engagements.

Matthew’s work has also included advising on the management of the tax function and tax risk across the client group.