Provision of Student Communication Support Services

Lot 2 (Overseas and Global Mobility Tax Advice) will include, but is not limited to:

• General advice on overseas taxes including but not limited to and depending on the overseas jurisdiction: corporate, personal, VAT, WHT, digital etc.
• Global mobility implications of employees working overseas to ensure the University and the employee(s) are fully compliant with local regulations and legislative requirements in-country.
• Ability to provide, as required, an assessment of additional cost to the University because of overseas posting.
• Advice in respect of overseas employer and employee tax, social security, and associated reporting, payment and/or filing obligations that emerge from having a globally mobile workforce with employees operating in various overseas countries.
• Overseas planning to ensure collaborations/working arrangements between the University and other organisations are structured in a tax efficient way whilst ensuring tax compliance and efficiency to limit liabilities (e.g., to mitigate creation of a PE where/if applicable).
• Advice and implications of overseas registration for the University and subsequent set up as and where appropriate (e.g., payroll operations, in country registrations, in country filing of returns and making payments as required).
• Ability to assist in implementing payroll and reporting requirements in overseas jurisdictions. Advice may also be requested on shadow payroll and where tax, wage and benefits must be compliantly paid and reported, the University may also require that overseas payroll services are provided in the form of advice, set-up, implementation and management of payroll services in one or multiple host territories. Management of the payroll services will include the payment of wages on a frequency agreed with the University as well as annual reporting. Preparation of payslips and preparation of statutory payroll forms, as well as direct overseas payroll may also be required where the employee is required to be paid in the currency of the host territory.
• Ability to assist in preparation and submission of return submissions in overseas countries if applicable.
• Minimising tax liabilities without risk of non-compliance.
• Providing guidance on changes in legislation for any overseas tax operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

The University of Strathclyde requires Live Remote Captioning (LRC) to be typed by palantypists who are accessing audio remotely, to enable students to access captions on their own device via a web interface.