The Dubai Land Department (DLD) launched the unified lease contract for rental properties in Dubai in March this year to create a transparent and professional real estate market with measurable standards.
On Tuesday, December 19, and Wednesday, December 20, 2017, the U.S. Senate and House voted “yes” to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
On December 13, 2017, a preliminary agreement was reached on a final tax bill that would significantly overhaul the Federal tax code.
The proposed U.S. tax reform, if approved, will have significant impact on corporate domestic relocation programs.
You’ve arranged the airplane tickets, rental home and new car for your mobile employees. But your job as a mobility manager isn’t done quite yet.
Our Chicago office recently completed its annual fundraiser for breast cancer awareness, raising over $3,300 to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
We don’t just help move your mobile employees. We make it our business to ensure that they have a seamless and speedy move.
What’s your first move if an emergency situation – whether a tropical storm or a political uprising – breaks out around the corner from your home? Now imagine this is your new home – in a new city, state, or country.
Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of corporate mobile workforce solutions, today announced that it has established a wholly-owned tax subsidiary, Weichert Mobility Tax Services, Inc.
We are sharing this important information with our clients, mobile employees and the general public as a courtesy due to the large number of people across the United States who may be impacted.
Your policy is the core of your workforce mobility program and it can dictate as much as 98% of the costs you incur. You want to control spend, especially since average domestic relocations can cost upwards of $80,000.
Life on assignment drives mobile employees’ ability to advance their careers. Providing an automobile or car allowance to enable assignees to drive themselves around their destination location is another story.
Convincing your key talent to take a move can be a tough sell when the cost of living in the destination location is higher than in the current home base area.
Relocation can be an incredibly exciting opportunity for the rising talent with your organization.
Weichert Workforce Mobility will be conducting complimentary, half-day educational summits for HR & corporate mobility professionals in Zurich and Geneva.
Following up on our earlier post about the Ontario Non-Resident Speculation Tax that became effective June 1.
Today, we have a lot of Jetsons-style technology, literally at our fingertips. Who doesn’t love FaceTime, Google searches and the Roomba (Ok, maybe not the Roomba)?
The Brexpat vote is a year in the rear view mirror and it continues to create growing ripple rings for Europe, the US and the world.
Last week, Marianne Schmidt, our VP of US Domestic Tax and Reporting, conducted an engaging webinar on ways companies can save cost by re-examining their tax gross-up processes.
On April 20, 2017, the Province of Ontario enacted a 15 per cent non-resident speculation tax (NRST) on the purchase or acquisition of properties in Metropolitan Toronto and its surrounding areas.
While research shows a growing number of millennials choosing to purchase homes, the majority of this demographic still prefer to rent, especially in metropolitan areas.
On November 1, 2016, China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) launched a pilot work permit program in select regions of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Anhui, Guangdong, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan and Ningxia.
UK Customs (HMRC) has announced changes to customs procedures for household goods and motor vehicles entering the UK that will impact assignees being relocated to this region.
I’ve recently received a number of questions from various corporate managers on the topic of host country housing. In this post, I’ve collected their questions and my answers.