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Common Pitfalls in Hong Kong Employer’s Tax Reporting Implications

Start
2026-02-27
End
2026-02-27
Time
15:30 - 17:00

$1,200

Venue: HKIHRM, Units 1810-15, 18/F, Millennium City 2, 378 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong (3-minute walk from Ngau Tau Kok MTR station exit A)

Language: Cantonese with English materials

CPD Hours: 1.5

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As the Hong Kong tax filing season approaches, it is important to ensure accurate and compliant tax reporting from the employer’s perspective. In addition to ordinary payroll items, with different non-cash benefits, reimbursement of expenses and long-term incentive schemes, it’s all too easy to stumble into common pitfalls that can lead to costly mistakes and compliance issues. 

Join us for an essential seminar featuring tax experts from Vialto Partners, where we will prepare you for the upcoming tax season. Our expert panel will delve into frequent errors encountered in Hong Kong employer tax reporting, from misinterpretations of tax laws to focus areas by the Inland Revenue Department. This seminar is designed to provide you with practical guidance and strategies to enhance your tax reporting practices and avoid common traps.

 

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry experts and network with peers as we navigate the intricacies of Hong Kong salaries tax system together, ensuring you’re ready for a successful filing season.

Agenda:

  • Identify common non-cash benefits and reimbursement of expenses that are often overlooked in tax reporting
  • Navigate the reporting requirement of long-term incentive awards and trailing reporting obligations 
  • Share the current enforcement landscape in Hong Kong
  • Challenges in tax reporting for frequent travel employees
  • Demonstration of how technology serves as compliance and strategic tools to support employer’s tax and mobility tracking 
  • Q&A session

Iris Lai

Iris is the Director at Vialto Partners with over 15 years of experience in providing professional services to both employers and employees focusing Hong Kong / China cross-border individual tax consulting and compliance.

She has extensive experience on various types of expatriates’ tax compliance and consulting projects, and other mobility related issues. She also advises and develops practical solutions for clients in Hong Kong and China relating to employment and remuneration structures (e.g. equity-based incentive plans, tax equalization policies, non-taxable benefits, employees’ compensation and benefit issues and etc). She advises clients in drafting company policy and employment terms covering fringe benefits, remuneration package structuring, termination package and talent mobility policy; negotiate and manage tax audit and penalty; cross border social security planning, etc.

In addition, Iris supports various international and regional financial institutions in managing tax audits, stock plan and foreign exchange registrations.

Iris serves a wide range of multinational clients from diverse industries on expatriates’ tax and mobility issues, including financial services, information technology, construction, and accommodation sectors. She also coordinates and acts as the key relationship contact point for clients who require services across countries in the APAC region.

She is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA).

 

Eric Leung

Eric is a Senior Manager with work experience in New York and Hong Kong. Eric has provided U.S. individual income and Hong Kong salaries tax consultation for over 20 years, specializing in cross-border taxation, employees’ incentive plans, rental reimbursement schemes, and fringe benefits.

Eric actively leads projects to review sound remuneration systems for international, local, and private banks in Hong Kong.

Eric also has extensive experience in designing and managing mobility programs for multinational corporations, international law firms, and global financial institutions. He has supervised several projects for Cathay Pacific Airways.

Eric is a member of the CPA Australia (CPAA), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).

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        As a HKIHRM Fellow and Professional Member, you are entitled to a 20% discount for joining the Asia Council Membership of TCB, an international think tank that delivers trusted insights for what’s ahead.

        TCB of Asia Council package offers a peer network, a portfolio of thought leadership, and access to experts to help address your job challenges and strengthen your team and organisation’s performance. By bringing together select senior executives from the world’s leading companies, the Council engages you in an immersive, solutions-focused conversation.

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