Tax & Regulatory Services

Our Tax & Regulatory division provides clients with proactive and cost-effective tax solutions that align with tomorrow’s possibilities. We serve corporate and individual clients across Africa and the World, as they navigate an increasingly complex tax regulatory landscape.

We offer a tailored approach to every client, give practical and direct advice, delivering solutions to help you efficiently and effectively manage your tax affairs. Our tax professionals draw on deep experience and industry-specific knowledge to deliver clients the insights and innovation they require to maintain compliance and drive value.

We adopt an integrated approach to address our client’s business challenges based on tax legislation, relevant foreign tax legislation, and Double Taxation Agreements (DTA). 

Our Tax Advisory Services will expand your landscape as your business grows by harnessing the latest technology, together with our outstanding technical support for effective tax solutions.

Our specific Tax & Regulatory Services include:

Tax compliance services

Our compliance team ensures that our clients meet all their legal obligations relating to both Direct and Indirect Taxes. Our tax compliance team has vast experience in assisting clients to manage and meet their obligations in an innovative, cost-effective, consistent and sustainable way.

Our services include

  1. Tax compliance and related tax planning
  2. Tax provision preparation
  3. Statutory accounting, bookkeeping and payroll compliance
  4. Compliance process
International Tax & Transfer pricing services

Our dynamic international tax teamwork with you to effectively manage your worldwide tax planning and compliance. We deliver a comprehensive, integrated tax service. In addition, we are regularly involved in multinational enterprises with complex operations and structures across the globe.

International enterprises must remain cognisant of the ever-increasing scrutiny in the eyes of tax authorities. Our team is well-equipped to make sure you keep up to date with the ever-changing international tax principles implemented through the OECD BEPS projects.

Tax advisory services

Regulatory requirements are increasing, business and finance modernisation and transformation is commonplace, and tax authorities and boards are demanding that tax risks are effectively managed. In this new business virtual, we help clients build a sustainable tax function for the future. Our approach to managing tax in an organisation, combines tax function design, technology, reporting and compliance delivery to help you meet any challenges head-on.

With a wealth of experience in helping companies develop proactive approaches to tax governance we collaborate with CFOs and tax executives to develop a fit-for-purpose tax risk assessment framework and automate processes and controls for managing risks on all taxes.

Generally, the Tax Advisory Services cover the following tax areas:

  1. Corporate tax
  2. Value Added Tax (VAT)
  3. Pay As You Earn (PAYE)
  4. Withholding Tax (WHT)
  5. Customs and Excise Duty
  6. Transfer Pricing
  7. Statutory Deductions (Including NSSF, NHIF and NITA deductions)
  8. Assist in dealing with routine queries from the Revenue Authorities.
Tax Health Check and Due Diligence Services

The tax review is specifically comprised of a review of the tax affairs of a company to report on the tax compliance status and to identify significant tax risks and potential tax exposures.

The scope of the health check and due diligence encompass the following:

  1. Check the level of compliance with tax and other statutory obligations
  2. Quantify the exposure, where possible
  3. Propose any corrective/mitigating steps to avoid instances of non-compliance
Global Mobility Services

Our experienced team provides customised global employer tax services covering both local and expatriate employees, including:

  1. Conducting PAYE health check reviews to ensure compliance from an employee’s tax perspective
  2. Assistance with the tax-efficient structuring of an expatriate employee’s remuneration package for both outbound and inbound assignments
  3. Evaluation of HR policies, documentation and procedures to ensure correct tax treatment and disclosure of benefits and remuneration paid to employees
  4. Advising on the design and implementation of tax-based reward schemes for employees, including share incentive schemes

Furthermore, our Global Mobility Services team is also happy to facilitate the entry and exit of your employees who are coming to work in Kenya with work permits and/or special pass applications and other relevant documentation that they will require including their dependents.