PSI15.1.3 - Overseas Employers and Overseas Employees: Overseas Employers with UK Based Employees - Identification of Overseas Employer


(This archived guidance relates to HMRC discretionary practice before the 6th April 2006. For current guidance on Registered Pension Schemes see the Registered Pension Schemes Manual)

An overseas employer can be identified in several ways, principally:
  1. in the case of a company (which almost invariably most overseas employers will be),the initials after the name of the company, such as Inc, SA, Gmbh, BV, NV, AG, A/S,
  2. the deed shows the country in which the company is incorporated,
  3. the announcement or other documentation, such as a Board Resolution, shows an overseas address for the company.

It should be noted that employers resident in the Republic of Ireland are overseas employers.

Decisions on the residence of an employer are a matter for the employer's Schedule D District.