Global Daily Tax News, EU Businesses To Benefit From New 'Posted Workers' Portal, (Nov 15, 2024)

The European Commission has proposed the creation of a single digital declaration portal for companies providing services and temporarily sending workers to another member state, known as "posted workers."

According to the Commission, there are about five million such posted workers.

Member states will be able to use the public interface on a voluntary basis. In member states who choose to do so, the new single digital declaration portal will reduce the administrative cost for businesses when posting their workers abroad, and in particular the requirement to handle multiple and diverse documentation in each member state.

The Commission said the portal will deliver on the Commission's objective of reducing companies' reporting burden by 25 percent, as outlined in its Communication on 'Long-term competitiveness of the EU'.

The Commission says a single digital declaration portal will allow service providers to use a single form instead of using 27 different national forms. On average, this will decrease by 73 percent the time spent on the declarations. This single form will be available in all official EU languages. The information requested is streamlined to some 30 data points. It will provide for a user-friendly one-stop shop for declaring posted workers in the EU. This will facilitate businesses' compliance with declaration obligations to competent national authorities, the Commission said.