Topia announced a partnership with BCD Travel, one of the world’s largest corporate travel management companies, to automate business travel and distributed workforce compliance (tax, payroll, and immigration). Through this partnership, Topia adds value to BCD’s clients by pulling their travel booking data into its Compass offering. Topia Compass then calculates tax exposures, multi-jurisdiction payroll withholdings, and immigration requirements while supporting the Posted Workers Directive and other compliance matters. The BCD-Topia partnership strengthens One, Topia’s new, end-to-end Global Talent Mobility platform while furthering its mission to break down barriers between people and places and enable work everywhere.
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Enterprises with mobile employees often struggle to determine where they have compliance exposures and when such exposures are triggered. Domestic and international business trips, assignments, and relocations affect where the organization is responsible for payroll withholding and where it has permanent establishments. HR and accounting departments that fail to keep track of these mobile employees and the resulting compliance obligations risk having to pay hefty penalties. However, manual efforts to monitor movement and calculate taxes tend to be expensive and inaccurate.
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Topia solves these problems by gathering and analyzing travel or other location data and personnel records from multiple systems within the enterprise and then automatically calculating tax exposures, payroll withholdings, and immigration or other compliance requirements. BCD offers another valuable source of trusted location data that Topia will analyze to simplify and streamline compliance for Topia and BCD’s shared customers. With this integration, Topia adds BCD to its growing list of industry-leading integrated partners.
“This partnership with Topia will help our shared clients minimize compliance risks and streamline an important part of their travel and talent mobility workflows,” said Yannis Karmis, Senior Vice President at BCD Travel. “Partners like Topia help demonstrate the value of BCD’s SolutionSource® marketplace and enable our customers to gain more value from their travel program.”
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