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Expert Employment Tax Consulting for Global Businesses

  • Ryan approaches employment tax as a strategic recovery engine—not a checklist. Beyond generating substantial refunds, we combine specialized policy expertise and operational insight to resolve multistate audits, navigate post-acquisition compliance, and advise on the implications of organizational restructuring to directly improve reinvestment potential and accelerate growth.
  • We serve as a true partner for our clients. Beyond refund recovery, Ryan serves as a strategic advisor, resolving multistate audits, navigating post-acquisition compliance, and advising on employment tax implications of organizational restructuring. While generating substantial refunds is our primary objective, we also act as a dedicated resource for all employment tax matters. This partnership means our experts are here to help answer circumstantial questions, resolve complex tax notices, and facilitate direct communication with various taxing authorities.
  • Through advanced data analytics and a laser-focus on multijurisdictional rules, Ryan helps clients make smarter financial decisions, backed by data and built for long-term value. Our specialized expertise helps uncover vetted recovery opportunities that overstretched payroll departments or traditional firms often overlook.
  • Our employment tax services are designed to be fully turnkey, ensuring a very light lift from your internal team. We require only limited initial data to conduct a thorough analysis, resulting in a presentation of vetted recovery opportunities that meet our stringent cost-benefit standards, prioritizing the opportunities that hold the most value for your business. From there, we handle the entire recovery process, from preparing required documents and managing follow-up to communicating with taxing authorities on your behalf. We do all of the heavy lifting, so you can focus on your core business activities.
  • With decades of leadership serving Global 5000 corporations and private equity (PE) owned businesses, Ryan consistently unlocks more value than others. Our proven methods and exclusive tax focus ensure our clients don’t just manage their taxes—they consistently achieve substantial returns.

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    Enter the future of tax with confidence. Our proprietary platform blends AI-driven automation with decades of tax expertise to simplify global compliance, reduce liabilities, and uncover hidden savings—giving your business a decisive edge.1,3000+Companies trust our tax platform
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    Total tax management, zero guesswork. With our end-to-end managed services, the world’s leading tax professionals handle every detail—reducing risk, removing administrative burden, and ensuring you only pay what you owe.7.10.0K+Multidisciplinary experts

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Ryan’s employment tax services are strategically focused on recovery, partnership, and end-to-end project management:
    • Recovery: Ryan’s core competency is recovering critical capital by identifying and reclaiming employment tax overpayments from federal and state agencies. Through decades of expertise and proprietary analytical tools, Ryan experts uncover substantial refund opportunities businesses often miss as a result of complex rules surrounding mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings.
    • Partnership and project management: Serving as your trusted partner, Ryan’s turnkey approach is designed to require a very light lift on your part. Ryan experts manage the entire process, from analyzing initial data and presenting vetted recovery opportunities to the meticulous preparation of all required forms and complete handling of follow-up with taxing authorities. Beyond recovery, Ryan experts serve as a dedicated resource for employment-related tax matters. This includes helping you resolve challenging tax notices, answering complex questions, and helping facilitate communication with various taxing authorities.
  • Employment tax recovery services create immediate cash flow improvements by finding and reclaiming overpaid taxes from previous years. Additionally, Ryan experts help optimize SUI exposure through targeted support, including the pursuit of penalty rate abatements and by securing SUI rate reductions associated with mergers and acquisitions. 
  • Any business that has recently undergone mergers, acquisitions, or corporate restructurings is an ideal candidate for employment tax services, as these events are the primary driver of employment tax recovery opportunities. This includes private equity (PE)-owned companies and Global 5000 corporations, but also extends to medium-sized businesses that have achieved significant growth through acquisitions.
  • Ryan combines decades of specialized employment tax expertise with proven methods that consistently deliver substantial savings for clients across different industries. The world’s leading companies choose Ryan because we offer expertise that’s laser-focused on recovery and optimization. While a payroll manager’s priority is ensuring employees are paid, a vital but distinct task, Ryan’s entire focus is on the complex, state-specific rules surrounding employment tax. These rules, particularly those created by mergers and acquisitions, are simply too complex to expect an overstretched payroll department to handle.

    Unlike payroll processing companies that focus on administrative tasks, Ryan specializes exclusively in identifying and pursuing these often-missed recovery opportunities, applying decades of proven expertise to consistently deliver substantial financial returns to your business.
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EMPLOYMENT TAX RECOVERY

Fuel Growth Through Strategic Tax Recovery

Recover Tax Overpayments

Our experts scour your returns to identify and recover overlooked refund opportunities from historical overpayments of employment taxes, often as a result of unchecked payments following mergers and acquisitions.

Integrate Powerful Data Analytics

Our comprehensive review process is powered by proprietary data analytics capabilities, ensuring our experts have real-time access to the data required to analyze and maximize recovery.

Protect Your Bottom Line 

We perform a custom, comprehensive analysis to minimize your tax exposure while maximizing recovery potential throughout mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and reorganizations.

Ensure Timely Action

Ryan’s employment tax experts use regulatory expertise and proprietary technology to track, monitor, and address refunds before the statute of limitations expires, delivering valuable recovery to your business.

“Ryan’s strategic approach and insight into our future employment tax liabilities helped control costs, eliminate underpricing, and enhance profitability.”

Chief Financial Officer, Major Workforce Services Organization

EMPLOYMENT TAX AUDIT

Optimize Your Employment Tax Workflows

Access Audit and Agency Support

Our experts act as your dedicated liaison with tax authorities, managing all inquiries, audits, and compliance matters to minimize burden and risk for your team.

Optimize Rates with SUI Review

We dive deep into your historical payroll data and tax returns, evaluating SUI rates and classifications to uncover opportunities for rate and cost optimization.

Leverage Legal Expertise

Our comprehensive employment tax services are backed by a third-party registered law firm, providing superior legal interpretation and support that surpasses traditional accounting-only advisory services.

“It’s a company that absolutely has its clients’ best interests at heart. If the client wins, Ryan wins, and that’s really important to me as the CFO.”

Chief Financial Officer, Dallas Cowboys

$400M+

Tax reductions

Improve Financial Performance with Employment Tax Services

Mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings create unique and complex employment tax challenges that often result in missed refund opportunities and compliance risk. Compounded by higher priority tasks, understaffed payroll departments, and limited budgets, significant employment tax overpayments are commonly overlooked. Ryan specializes in these nuanced transactions to identify and generate substantial recoveries for clients through expert analysis and action.

$2600M+

Annual tax savings earned worldwide

800+

Countries served

$2600M+

Annual tax savings earned worldwide

800+

Countries served

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