Whitepaper
Multi-country payroll. The five places it usually breaks.
Statutory deduction logic across India, the UAE and the United States. Five failure modes we have catalogued and the architectural decisions that prevent each one.
A payroll system that works in one country and a payroll system that works in three are two different systems. This is the shortest version of what we have learned running the second one.
- Statutory-mid-cycle regime change — the design that survives it separates policy from calculation
- Cross-border employees — one employee, two tax residences, one paycheck
- FX at the calculation boundary, not the reporting boundary
- Retro-active adjustments that reach into a prior locked period
- Bank-file formats that assume single-country payers