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Overseas staff can be hired by a Cayman company, but contracts, payroll, permits and tax cannot follow incorporation: risk turns on work location, five routes and 2026 reforms.
The BVI registered office, registered agent, records and statutory service address are not the company's actual office, place of management or employees' workplace.
BVI ITA Economic Substance Rules v4 are the baseline: entity, financial period, relevant activity and tax-resident-outside routes, plus employees, premises, CIGA and outsourcing.
Holding and overseas operations vs on-the-ground BVI employment: registered office, registered agent, economic substance, employment, immigration and licensing boundaries.
Assess when a BVI company should give way to a local opco, EOR, distributor, agent, or two-entity structure for real operations and hiring.
Guide to assessing overseas employees, contractors, EORs, local subsidiaries and secondments of a BVI company by actual work location, not incorporation place or contract title.
China first 90 days: registration, recruitment, contracts, foreign work permits, payroll, tax and operations, separated by their real trigger dates.
A guide for teams hiring in China: separate take-home pay, contractual salary, employer cash flow and the full budget using 2026 city parameters.
A practical checklist for foreign-invested enterprises in China: clear the first employee by work city, contract, social insurance, housing fund, tax and foreign-worker permits.
Check registered addresses, coworking and actual business premises in China, with national rules and local practices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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