The management of social charges and contributions represents a constant challenge for companies. With frequent legislative changes and the complexity of calculations, it is essential to ensure that your company optimizes its HR costs while remaining compliant with current regulations.
Our social charges and contributions optimization services
At Althéa, we provide you with our technical expertise and constant legal monitoring to help you control your social charges and maximize your savings. Our multidisciplinary approach enables us to analyze your social charges and payroll taxes in detail, in order to propose innovative savings opportunities, such as:
- General reduction of employer contributions
- Mobility payment
- Tax credits
- Reduction mechanisms
- Threshold freeze
- Social Package
- AGEFIPH contribution
- …
Improve the management of your social charges and contributions!
We are here to support you.
Our objectives
- Make your payroll process more reliable by checking the compliance of payroll settings.
- Secure the Nominative Social Declaration (DSN) through compliance audits.
- Identify areas of over-contribution to recover amounts overpaid in previous periods.
- Support your teams with training and assistance in payroll configuration.
At Althéa, we believe in a relationship of trust, proactivity, and the provision of expertise to help you meet the challenges of an increasingly complex HR world. With the growing importance of data security, we also guarantee the protection of your information in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Choose Althéa as your partner to optimize your social and employer charges. Would you like to learn more or initiate a social and employer charges optimization project? Contact us!
Key Figures
in social security contribution savings for our clients
100 clients per year, across all sectors: URSSAF regularization, payroll configuration, and more.
Our team includes payroll experts as well as lawyers specialized in social security law.
Althéa offers three major support services for payroll teams: social security contribution audits, payroll white paper preparation, and payroll compliance assignments.
References
For a non-profit organization
1,200 employees – Social security contribution optimization assignment
Context
The decline in donations required this organization to find savings quickly across all departments of the association.
HR was also affected. We then presented our expertise and methodology to them.
Services provided
Althéa’s experts were able to audit the association’s payslips. After analysis, several issues highlighted potential savings:
- RGCP: several bonuses not taken into account in the calculation
- Geographic exemptions: the organization was not benefiting from specific assistance related to their establishment and location
- Mobility payment: as a non-profit association with a social purpose, an exemption on the mobility payment could apply
Savings and duration
Althéa’s teams obtained a regularization of €270,000 related to URSSAF over-contributions over the last 36 months. URSSAF validated the principle and invited our client to process regularization blocks in DSN.
Our experts were able to configure the payroll software so that the association could contribute at the most accurate rate, which resulted in savings of €90,000 per year with URSSAF.
For a private-sector communications company
3,000 employees – Social security contribution optimization assignment
Context
The Human Resources department was not open to an audit on social charges. Our client relied on their accountant and payroll software. The last URSSAF audit, three years earlier, had yielded nothing (few adjustments and few savings).
We highlighted the legislative changes that had little impact on the scope of this communications company and emphasized our expertise.
Out of curiosity, the HR Director engaged the assignment. Our success-fee remuneration made the difference (results-based compensation only).
Services provided
Althéa’s experts were able to audit the company’s payslips. After analysis, several issues highlighted potential savings.
- Threshold effect: the company had experienced a significant increase in its workforce across several legal entities and establishments. Payroll was applying contribution rates outside the Pacte Law. After a thorough review of headcount by environment, we were able to find very significant savings.
- Threshold exceeded: without knowing it, our client had fallen back below certain thresholds and continued to contribute to certain contributions when they no longer had to.
- General reduction of contributions: the ceilings were incorrectly configured in the payroll software, which resulted in increased rates for many employees.
Savings and duration
Althéa’s teams were thus able to obtain a regularization of €410,000 related to URSSAF over-contributions over the last 36 months. Our experts were able to configure the payroll software so that the company could contribute at the most accurate rate, which resulted in savings of €130,000 per year with URSSAF.
Challenges
Optimize Your HR Budget
Too many companies over-contribute without knowing it. Althéa supports you in identifying URSSAF and HR optimization opportunities and enables you to achieve significant savings in just 3 months.
Expertise-Driven Work
Auditing social charges and identifying savings opportunities is a matter for experts. Legislative changes continue to make reading URSSAF contributions complex.
How can social security contributions be reduced?
- Achieve significant savings
- Ensure best practices and payroll compliance
- Anticipate the risks of adjustments
Your questions about Social Security Contribution Optimization
Comment réduire les charges sociales?
As mentioned above, reducing social charges constitutes a major challenge for companies. To optimize the correct amount of your contributions, it is first necessary to conduct a thorough audit of your situation. This analysis, offered by Althéa, will identify potential over-contributions and opportunities for social cost optimization.
The main lever remains the general reduction of employer contributions (formerly Fillon reduction), which significantly reduces employer contributions for salaries up to 1.6 times the minimum wage. Particular attention must be paid to its calculation and application.
To further reduce your charges, several actions can be carried out simultaneously: verify your eligibility for various exemptions, optimize the structure of compensation, and adapt your working time policy.
Support from experts such as those at Althéa is often necessary to:
- Secure your social declarations
- Review calculation bases
- Fully exploit relief mechanisms
Important to note: this cost optimization approach must be sustained over time while respecting the legal and regulatory framework.
What are the benefits of optimizing social security contributions and payroll management?
The optimization of social charges and payroll management offers numerous tangible benefits for the company. The best approach, based on in-depth expertise, primarily enables substantial savings through effective and controlled cost reduction.
A second major advantage lies in social cost optimization, enabling the identification and application of all relief mechanisms to which the company is entitled. This approach generates immediate and sustainable savings on social charges.
Process security also constitutes an essential benefit. It enables:
- Limit the risks of adjustment
- Guarantee regulatory compliance
- Ensure the reliability of social declarations
Beyond financial aspects, optimization provides better visibility on HR costs and greater operational efficiency. This comprehensive approach enables the establishment of a more relevant and better-controlled HR strategy.
