Payroll
Payroll and the obligations that come with it
Calculating salaries is only part of the work. Reporting to social insurance, monitoring absences, applying the correct withholding tax tariff, issuing salary certificates and carrying out year-end reconciliations: these are the obligations that require the closest follow-up.
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What we take on
Every month
Payroll processing, individual payslips, payment orders, posting to the accounts, and applying the withholding tax tariff with the corresponding deduction.
Social insurance
Registrations and notifications, OASI and DI, occupational pensions, accident insurance, daily sickness benefits and family allowances, as well as new hires, leavers and changes in circumstances during the year.
Every year-end
Salary certificates, annual declarations, closing the social insurance accounts and reconciling them with the books.
Special situations
A mid-month departure, a bonus, a severance payment, a benefit in kind or extended sick leave. These are the cases that take the most time and require particular attention.
Salaries declared to the Swissdec standard
The ELM salary standard, maintained by Swissdec, allows salary data to be transmitted electronically to social insurance and tax authorities directly from the payroll software, without re-keying.
For you, each figure is entered only once, which limits from the outset any discrepancies between what the OASI fund receives, what the pension fund receives and what appears in your accounts.
Taking over an existing payroll
A preliminary review of the existing set-up
Your last twelve payslips, your registrations, the rates applied and the balances. This review avoids carrying a possible error forward for a whole year.
A transition between two months
The changeover takes place between two pay periods, with no interruption for your employees.
We report our findings to you
A handover sometimes brings to light a wrongly applied withholding tax tariff, a missed registration or a rate that has not been updated for several years. We flag what we find and what it implies, and you decide what happens next.
A handover can take place at any point in the year
Without waiting for 1 January. We can start as soon as you decide.
Here, you remain the employer. Your employees are yours and their contracts carry your name.
If you need someone working in Switzerland but cannot employ them directly, that is a different service, with its own legal framework.
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Reviewing your payroll arrangements
Let us know how many employees you have and how long you have employed them. We will explain what we would take over and how we would price the engagement.