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Corporate Finance and Deal Advisory
We offer a dedicated team of experienced individuals with a focus on successfully executing transactions for corporates and financial institutions. We offer an integrated approach, with our corporate finance specialists working seamlessly with tax and other specialists to ensure that every angle is covered.
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Digital Risk
Grant Thornton offers solutions to the digital risk issues you are sure to face. Our skilled and experienced security team can helping by advising and consulting, giving you peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to attacks.
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Technology Consulting
Motivating and assisting our clients to pursue, maintain and secure the benefits of digital solutions is at the core of our Digital Transformation teams' agenda and goals. We work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Economic Advisory
Our all-island Economics Advisory team combines expertise in economics and business with a wealth of experience across the public and private sectors.
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Forensic Accounting
We have a different way of doing business by delivering real insight through a combination of technical rigour, commercial experience and intuitive judgment. We take pride in delivering responsive and tailored solutions to all our clients, capitalising on the wealth of experience housed within our Belfast and wider Forensics team
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People and Change Consulting
The Grant Thornton People & Change Consulting practice works with clients on these issues as well as on all aspects of how they attract, retain, engage develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Restructuring
We work with a wide variety of clients and stakeholders such as high street banks, private equity funds, directors, government agencies and creditors to implement solutions which provide the best possible outcomes.
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Corporate and International Tax
Northern Ireland businesses face further challenges as they operate in the only part of the UK that has a land border with a country offering a lower tax rate.
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Employer Solutions
Our team specialises in remuneration and incentive planning and works closely with employers, shareholders and employees to ensure that business strategies are aligned and goals achieved in the most tax efficient, cost-effective manner.
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Entrepreneur and Private Client Taxes
Our team of experienced advisors are on hand to guide you through any decision or transaction ranging from the establishment of new business ventures, to realising value on exit, to succession planning and providing for loved ones.
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Global Mobility Services
Grant Thornton offer a different approach to managing global mobility. We have brought together specialists from our tax, global payroll, people and change and financial accounting teams across Ireland and Northern Ireland, while drawing on the knowledge and insights of our global network of over 143 offices of mobility professionals to provide you with a holistic approach to managing global mobility.
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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced service provides valued service to over 150 separate PAYE schemes. These ranging from 1 to 1000 employees, working for micro, SME and global employers. The service is supported by the integrated network of tax and global mobility teams and the wider Grant Thornton network delivering a seamless service. Experienced staff deliver a personal service built around your business needs.
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Tax Disputes and Investigations
Our Tax Disputes and Investigation team is made up of tax experts and former HMRC investigators who have years of experience in dealing with a variety of tax investigations. Our expertise and insight can guide you through all interactions, keeping your cost at a minimum while allowing you to continue with the day to day running of your business.
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VAT and Indirect Taxes
At Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, our team helps Northern Ireland businesses manage their UK and global indirect tax risks which, as transactional taxes, can quickly become big liabilities.
Social Security Coordination post Brexit
03 Feb 2021All EU Member States to opt in to Social Security Coordination post Brexit
The UK-EU Agreement provides for continued coordination of social security for workers who move between the UK and the EU. This means these workers may be able to pay social security in just one country. Before the UK left the EU and during its transition period, EU regulation provided that workers moving between EU member states could, pay social security in a single country, often their normal country of residence.
Once the UK left the EU, this would no longer apply. Although an agreement was reached between Ireland and the UK early on in the transition process and social security coordination was provided for in the withdrawal agreement, it was unclear how this would work in practice.
An Agreement has now been reached and individuals working temporarily in either the UK or the EU may be able to continue to pay social security in just one country, provided the relevant EU country has agreed to apply the “detached worker” rules.
Under these detached worker rules, UK workers sent to work in the EU can continue to pay National Insurance Contributions in the UK (for up to 24 months) and be exempt from paying foreign social security. Likewise, workers sent to work in the UK can remain liable to social security in their EU country of residence.
Where an EU country does not apply these rules, then workers will have to pay social security in the country they are working in temporarily.
The process for applying for these rules remains the same. The employer can continue to apply online on behalf of the employee they are sending abroad, for an A1 social security certificate.
All EU member states have indicated that they wish to opt into the new detached worker rules.
For workers who started to work in the other country before 1 February 2021, then they will still be entitled to obtain a social security certificate under the previous rules.
The application process is best managed online and the Employer can submit applications using their PAYE dashboard login details.
