It’s March and you receive an additional claim from the tax office for payroll taxes from previous years. Or a tax audit (GPLB) takes place and you receive such an additional claim in this course. Your payroll accounting is in professional hands. So how is this possible? In many cases, the answer is: Deduction differences.
Payroll accounting runs your employees’ payroll every month and calculates net salaries and taxes. If the correct labelling is missing, even if the monthly levies are transferred on time, the result is a “credit” to the tax office account, but without allocation and therefore without settlement of the outstanding claim. This is often the case with manual transfers and transfers from abroad in particular. If the incorrect labelling remains undetected in the accounting department for a long time and it is not until the annual payslip (L16) is submitted at the end of February of the following year that questions are raised and additional claims are made, the situation on the tax account is usually very confusing and difficult to comprehend.
How to avoid the problem
Make sure you have your tax account analysed regularly and monitor your payroll taxes on an ongoing basis. In the worst case scenario, this will also help you avoid consequences under financial criminal law.
Our tax team will support you with reorganisation and ongoing monitoring:
- With a one-off consultation appointment to take stock and determine any need for reorganisation
- With a detailed analysis of your tax account and resolution of the deduction differences
- With continuous monitoring of payroll taxes
Are you in a similar situation right now? Act now before mistakes become expensive. Contact us without obligation for details or an appointment.