Payroll & Global Mobility

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Ahmed Ghattour & Co provides a flexible payroll service to any entity, depending on the level of involvement or our clients wish.

Ahmed Ghattour & Co offers you a comprehensive payroll service allowing you to focus on your core business. We provide a flexible payroll service to both multinational and local organizations, depending on the level of involvement desired by our clients. By partnering with Ahmed Ghattour & Co, you can be sure of a consistent, high-quality payroll service ensuring compliance with Libyan laws and regulations with attention to detail at all times. An increasing number of business owners and executive managers in Libya are also shifting towards payroll outsourcing to ensure the confidentiality of payroll data and the efficiency of processes. Ahmed Ghattour & Co customizes its payroll services to meet your unique needs and ensure compliance with all Libyan laws and regulations.

  1. Obtain monthly payroll information regarding attendance, deductions and changes in salaries.
  2. Prepare monthly payroll for the staff on the basis of information received from clients.
  3. Preparation of tax computations of employees and sending to management for their approval.
  4. After approval of payroll by the client, transfer salaries to individual accounts.
  5. Prepare monthly payroll pay slips and send to employees.
  6. Deposit monthly payroll withholding taxes into the Libyan Government Treasury.

Why us?

Payroll processing is a critical, complex and time-consuming activity. By outsourcing this task your company can focus on business operations. Ahmed Ghattour & Co provides expert advice and solutions to its clients by combining its expertise with processes which allows it to provide reliable business solutions that are both robust and effective. Ahmed Ghattour & Co is considered one of the top payroll processing companies in Libya. Our company provides the following payroll services:

  1. Data confidentiality and internal control
  2. Industrial proven experience and highly expert team members.
  3. High level of accuracy and compliance with Libyan laws and regulations.
  4. Regulations and tax rules are seamlessly updated.
  5. Maintain records of monthly deduction and remittance of withholding tax.
  6. Send copy of a monthly payroll for the company’s records.

Key Benefits

We provide a single point of contact for your company, thereby reducing the burden of having to work with multiple contacts and ensuring that our solutions work seamlessly with your existing processes and controls. Our services range from simply processing the payroll to the provision of a one-stop-shop (total service). Some key benefits of outsourcing payroll services are:

  • Experienced HR consultants well-versed in payroll administration
  • Expertise with tax obligations and compliances
  • Help with minimizing HR management efforts
  • Secure your company’s reputation as a stable employer.

Services for Local & Expatriate Employees

Ahmed Ghattour & Co can provide a truly high-quality service to you by utilizing its local resources. Operating with a single contract and managed by its professional team. This approach adopted by Ahmed Ghattour & Co ensures compliance with Libyan laws and regulations while attention to detail at all times. The following services are equally applicable to Libyan and expatriate employees:

  1. Libyan salaries & wages tax applies to all salaries, wages, bonuses, and benefits that arise from employment in Libya
  2. First-time employees’ registration in Libya for tax and social security purposes
  3. Apply for the exemption of the employer from contributing to social security for foreign employees
  4. Preparation of payroll budgets
  5. Compute the estimated tax liability of each employee at the beginning of the year
  6. Compute net payroll for each employee, and ensure the relevant pay is remitted to the employee
  7. For each payroll run, provide information ranging from pay slips to tailored management information reports
  8. Pay client dues arising from tax and social security commitments
  9. Complete the inland revenue form for the claim of tax allowances
  10. Handle communications and correspondence with the inland revenue, social security department, and other government departments
  11. Provide advisory services in connection with taxation and social security matters.

Additional Services for Expatriate Employees

In the case of expatriate employees, however we offer the following additional services:

  1. Advise on and arrange salary payments to employees who are working abroad but get their salaries in Libya
  2. Prepare and complete a separate annual return for such employees
  3. Complete personal tax returns in respect for each employee
  4. Arrangement for personal tax assessments to be raised promptly
  5. To obtain individual tax certificates in respect of their salaries and income tax paid.

Payroll Compliance & Quality

We adopt a flexible set of payroll solutions that can meet changing legal and business requirements. That’s why at Ahmed Ghattour & Co we understand that having a control system methodology ensures high quality and comprehensive payroll solutions. We guarantee that our operations are in full compliance with the Libyan taxation laws and regulations.

  1. Employees’ pay slips
  2. General ledger
  3. Processing incentives/deductions
  4. Bank transfer for execution
  5. Tax calculations, payments and tax reporting.

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