Hiring someone overseas and setting them up in MYOB
Has anyone here hired someone based overseas and had to work out how to handle it in MYOB?
We are looking at a situation where the person doing the work would live in another country, so I do not want to assume it is the same as adding a normal AU employee to payroll. My understanding is that the main thing is to get the employment structure right first, before touching the payroll setup.
For example, to figure out whether the person should be treated as a contractor, whether they need to be employed locally in their own country, whether STP or super applies, and whether the AU business needs any kind of local payroll registration overseas.
MYOB can obviously process the payroll details you enter, but it does not decide whether the arrangement itself is correct from a compliance point of view.
I am looking into EOR providers and will likely set things up with Globalization Partners (if you've worked with them, please share your experience, while we're here), but I am trying to understand how people then handle the MYOB side once the structure has been confirmed.
Has anyone dealt with this in practice? Did you record it as normal payroll, contractor expense, or payments to the provider, depending on the setup?