AFB Seminar: Practical Solutions for Year End Employment Tax Reporting

Grant Thornton is running a series of tax seminars for AFB members in 2025. AFB members are invited to attend the second in-person session in the series, which will cover end-of-year employment tax compliance to support 2024/25 reporting.

Why attend?

Leaders in the Grant Thornton employer solutions team will assist AFB members with practical solutions to help you with year-end reporting, best practice guidance and insight on the key challenges in employment tax compliance. Specifically, they will cover:

• end-of-year employment tax compliance to support 2024/25 reporting with a focus on:
  • PAYE Settlement Agreement reporting
  • P11D and P11D(b) filing
• updates for managing a globally mobile workforce including new HMRC requirements
• key employment tax considerations for the start of the 2025/26 tax year
• looking ahead to mandatory payrolling of benefits in kind from April 2026
• other employment tax and global mobility hot topics and updates

Who should attend?

This session is aimed at those working in Finance and Tax departments.

Speakers

Jonathan Berger, Employment Tax National Co-Lead

Jonathan leads the employment tax team in London and the South, with a particular focus on the Financial Services Industry and has almost 25 years’ specialist experience.

He supports employers to gain cost savings through the implementation of more effective pay and benefits reward structures, as well as supporting them to manage employment tax and mitigate internal and external compliance risks. This includes the operation of PAYE and NIC on payments, expenses and benefits provided to employees as well as establishing employment status (IR35).

He is a regular commentator on technical employment tax matters for internal and external seminars and has had a number of articles published in tax periodicals and magazines.

Matt Wilson, Global Mobility Director

Matt is a Director in Grant Thornton’s Employer Solutions team advising corporates on all aspects related to the taxation of employees. As part of the employer solutions leadership team, he represents Grant Thornton at the HMRC Joint Forum on Expatriate and National Insurance Contribution.

He has over 25 years’ experience working with financial service organisations advising in relation to the taxation of internationally mobile employees across Employer Solutions services including global mobility, employment taxes and reward. In particular, he advises on both the international personal tax and employment taxes issues that arise in a cross-border setting in connection with a broad range of remuneration arrangements and pension structures.

Alex Wong, Employment Tax Associate Director

Alex has been with Grant Thornton for over 8 years. Throughout his career in tax, he has developed a keen interest in helping clients on employment tax issues such as year end compliance, off-payroll workers, termination payments, and employee benefits. Specifically, he enjoys helping clients to develop a robust internal procedure to ensure they are rewarding staff efficiently whilst also meeting their statutory obligations including employment tax reporting.

Please note, you will receive a confirmation of your booking via email within 24 hours. Should you not receive a confirmation, please contact AFB to double check if your booking was successful.

Logistics

Fee:         Included in AFB membership

Location: The Lounge, Grant Thornton, 30 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AG

Date:        Tuesday 13 May 2025

Time:        08:30 – 10:30 (registration & refreshments from 08:30 – 09.00)

There will be ample opportunity for questions throughout the session, however, if you would like to submit a question before or have any specific questions or areas that you would like the session to address, please send them to the AFB at secretariat@foreignbanks.org.uk as soon as practicable. You will receive details on how to join this in-person session a week before the event.