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Bring foreign employees into Bangladesh with the work permit, employment contract, payroll and tax handled by one Dhaka-based provider. HRBD manages the assignment from pre-arrival paperwork to repatriation, so your expatriate starts work legally and your company avoids running local HR for a single hire. The service sits within HRBD's human capital management practice and draws on our work permit and visa processing and employer services teams.
Reviewed by Romana Akhter Shila, Head of Payroll & HR Compliance, HRBD. Last reviewed September 2026.
Before the expatriate arrives, HRBD confirms the role is eligible for a Bangladesh work permit, prepares the BIDA or relevant authority application, arranges the entry visa and drafts the local employment terms. You get a written checklist and timeline for the work permit and visa process before any commitment.
During the assignment HRBD runs monthly expatriate payroll in Bangladesh, withholds and files income tax, administers benefits and allowances, keeps the work permit and visa in date, and acts as the local HR contact for both the employee and your head office.
At the end of the assignment HRBD closes the employment contract, settles final pay and tax clearance, cancels the work permit and visa in the correct order, and issues the documents the employee needs to leave Bangladesh cleanly and re-join your home payroll.
Expatriate salaries in Bangladesh carry different tax residency, withholding and reporting rules from local staff. HRBD calculates and files these through its payroll tax and compliance service, so your expatriate and your company each meet their own obligations.
HRBD is a Dhaka-based HR, payroll and Employer of Record company. For expatriate management we act as the local employer or the local administrator, depending on whether your company has a registered entity in Bangladesh. Either way, one team handles the work permit, the employment contract, monthly payroll and tax, and the employee’s day-to-day HR questions.
Companies without a local entity engage HRBD through employer services, where HRBD holds the employment contract. Companies that already have an entity keep the expatriate on their own payroll and use HRBD for onboarding, permit handling and compliance. Where the assignment includes local hires reporting to the expatriate, HRBD’s employee assessment service supports the selection.
Each stage below is handled by HRBD in Bangladesh, from permit application to repatriation. The same sequence is written out step by step in the FAQ further down this page.
One provider for permit, payroll and HR removes duplicate advisers and the cost of setting up local HR for a single employee.
Correct permits, on-time pay and a local HR contact remove the administrative reasons expatriate assignments end early.
Permit and visa paperwork prepared before arrival means the employee can begin work legally on the planned date.
Every filing, permit and payslip is documented, so your head office and auditors can see the assignment was run lawfully in Bangladesh.
Answers on scope, legal employment, work permits, payroll and tax for expatriates in Bangladesh.
Expatriate management is the administration of a foreign employee's assignment in another country. With HRBD in Bangladesh it covers the work permit and visa, the local employment contract, monthly payroll and income tax, benefits administration, day-to-day HR support and the closing formalities when the assignment ends.
No. If you have no local entity, HRBD employs the expatriate under its own registered company through its employer services and sponsors the work permit. If you already have an entity, HRBD administers the permit, payroll and compliance while the employee stays on your payroll.
HRBD is the legal employer when your company has no Bangladesh entity; the contract, statutory registrations and labour-law obligations sit with HRBD while work direction stays with you. When you have an entity, your entity is the employer and HRBD acts as administrator.
HRBD runs the monthly payroll in Bangladesh taka, applies the withholding rules that depend on the employee's tax residency status, files the annual return and obtains tax clearance at the end of the assignment. Statements are provided so the employee can report in their home country.
It depends on the employee's nationality, the industry and how quickly documents are supplied. HRBD gives an expected timeline once the role brief is complete rather than promising a fixed number of weeks, and starts the application before the employee travels.
Yes. Contract, salary and personal documents are handled under written confidentiality terms in HRBD's engagement and shared only with the people you name. Expatriate compensation is usually sensitive within a company, so access is limited by default.
Housing search, school placement, household shipping and family relocation logistics are not part of the standard service. HRBD covers the employment, immigration, payroll and HR side of the assignment; relocation services can be quoted separately if needed.
Related HRBD services: work permit and visa processing, employer services, payroll tax and compliance and human capital management.
