Specialism
Social security and payroll
The largest recurring expense is also the least reviewed. Not by accident.
Payroll is usually the largest cost line of an operation and the last to be audited, for an understandable reason: touching it seems to mean touching people. But most of what gets reviewed touches nobody — it concerns the calculation base, risk classification, the legal nature of pay items and badly completed ancillary filings.
Two examples of the kind of thing one finds. The risk grade that sets the accident contribution is assigned by predominant activity and has often been frozen in an operational reality the company no longer has. And there are pay items of an indemnity nature that keep forming part of the contribution base out of registry inertia, because the parameters were set once and never read again.
We review by correcting what is wrong without creating a new liability — which requires saying no to some theses that circulate with enthusiasm in this market. And we include the pension planning of the partner himself, usually the only person in the company whose retirement nobody has calculated.
A little-explored detail: the index that multiplies the accident contribution is published individually per company, every year, and can be challenged. It reflects the history of absences, including those improperly linked to the activity. Companies with serious safety programmes sometimes pay as if they had none — because they never reviewed their own index.
Success on realised benefit — refund obtained or contribution reduced as a result of the review — and a compliance retainer to maintain what was corrected. Because payroll is remade every month, correction without maintenance returns to its previous state within one or two years, and the client ends up paying twice for the same work.
Official sources, at the exact point — the article of law, the service or the search you can use today. None replaces analysis of the specific case, which is our work.
Say in two lines what you need to resolve. An account manager replies personally, in business hours, and the conversation starts where it makes a difference.
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