Africa tax desk

The size of our structure allows us to offer our clients a multidisciplinary and dedicated team, in order to support and assist them in their daily or exceptional operations.

In particular, we advise our clients in Corporate law; Mergers & Acquisitions; Tax law; Transfer pricing; Commercial law; Employment law; Contract law; Business Litigation; Prevention and treatment of difficulties.

Our tax services include:

• Advice, assistance, legal and tax support
• Tax planning and optimization for national and international companies
• Assistance and advice for the installation and constitution of national and international companies in Algeria
• Establishment and revision of contracts and agreements
• Work legislation
• Secretariat of boards of directors and general meetings of companies.
• Legal due diligence
• Good governance
• Private-public partnership.

Our tax services help you gain trust and stay ahead, enabling you to manage your tax transparently and ethically. Tax is a critical area of business that demands as much attention as any other business focal point.

Through innovative solutions that manage your liabilities, Grant Thornton tax specialists can give you the advice you need to achieve your commercial objectives. Whether you are an individual or a corporation, a well-established business or a growing operation, we can offer you a multitude of domestic and international tax services.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate tax compliance and consultancy
  Tax compliance: This service is designed to assist enterprises to cope with the statutory tax declaration requirements in line with the tax laws, as well as the frequent changes and updates in tax laws. A specified engagement team of tax professionals will be dedicated to each of our clients so as to fully understand the enterprises’ business operations.

  We will act as your internal tax person/team to advise the Management on tax treatments on daily business operation, handle tax returns and work closely with your accounting personnel to ensure the company’s tax declarations are line with the laws. All taxes relating to your business, which will include but not be limited to the assistance in preparation of tax returns for Value Added Tax, corporate income tax, on a monthly, and annual basis.

  Tax due diligence: We conduct tax due diligence reviews of target companies to analyse their tax exposure and position in relation to acquisitions, mergers or consolidations.

  Tax audit and investigation: The process to handle a tax audit or investigation can be stressful and can lead to prosecution if not correctly handled thus, getting the right experts to handle this area of work is essential. Our professionals can assist to manage the process effectively to safeguard your position and mitigate any detrimental consequences of noncompliance.

  Tax restructuring and amalgamation: We analyse target companies and advice on how to restructure their business for estate planning, tax and cost efficiency, potential listing in the stock market.

• VAT audits, consultancy and compliance
  We can assist by ensuring high risk categories of transactions are accorded the correct treatments. Our indirect tax specialists help clients in effective planning; assist to bring clarity to the Customs legislation; assist and advise in Customs audit or investigation.

  It is important for all entities that will be required to register for the VAT to analyse the impact of the VAT on their business operations, their revenues and expenses, and their customers and suppliers. We have an established VAT team that can assist you with deliberate strategies and implement changes to systems and processes to ensure compliance.

• Personal tax compliance and consultancy
  We have a broad knowledge base and skills to assist you keep your personal income taxes to a legitimate and reasonable level, while remaining compliant with legislation. We can develop a personalized package for each key employee to take maximum advantage of the exemptions and incentives available.
  
  
• Global mobility services
  Botswana and international regulations concerning tax and social security contributions are constantly changing. When a company plans to transfer personnel from one country to another many questions arise concerning the tax issues in both the home country and the host countries.

  On the other hands, when a company in Botswana recruits a foreigner, there are a number of tax issues needed to be considered before entering into a contract with the foreigner. Our approach is to spend quality time to understand your needs and design a service that’s right for you.

• International tax planning, including IFSC certification
  Our extensive international network provides us with significant resources to meet all your expansion goals. We strive to develop commercially focused and tailored tax strategies to minimise tax exposures and maximise business efficiency.

  We utilise our extensive local knowledge and proven tax-efficient strategies to maximise potential benefits and reduce risks. We use these techniques to assist you in planning your legal structure, repatriation planning and exit strategy.

• Transfer pricing
  With the introduction of the income tax (transfer pricing) rules and the new transfer pricing guidelines, taxpayers should give special attention to this matter to mitigate the risks of pricing adjustments, double taxation, inefficient tax planning and penalties. Preparing contemporaneous documentation should not be viewed as to only comply with legal obligations, but also as an effective tax and risk administration tool. Our experts can help by offering:
  • Documentation
  • Risk assessment
  • Benchmarking analysis
  • Dispute resolution
    
    
• Other tax services
  Tax health check: Our tax health check involves a high-level review of specific tax areas to highlight the key issues that need to be rectified to reduce tax risks. We identify key risk areas in which many enterprises are not fully compliant or often overlook potential tax planning opportunities. Our tax health check service represents a cost-effective method to proactively manage risks and reduce potential issues arising as a result of a tax inspection.

  FATCA compliance: Non-compliance to FATCA could subject an entity as a Non-Participating Financial Institution (NPFI), and be subjected to tax withholding. There is also a possibility for additional penalties and repercussions from the US Internal Revenue Service. Our tax team can assist you in the preparation submission of the appropriate FATCA forms to compliant.

  Competition Authority compliance: We can assist you in the preparation of document for submission to Competition Authority for any mergers and acquisitions. Our tax team can act on your behalf in seeing through the application process and all the necessary follow-up in obtaining the Authority’s decision in the matter.

At Grant Thornton Cameroon, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Using a combination of reason and instinct, we can work with you to develop a strategy that helps you both understand and manage your tax liability transparently and ethically.

Our tax services include:

• Permanent tax assistance
• Legal assistance
• Good tax governance
• Tax assistance fiscal during audits
• Tax optimisation and consulting
• Assistance during end-of-year work
• Transfer pricing
• Training.

Using a combination of reason and instinct, we can work with you to develop a strategy that helps you both understand and manage your tax liability in a transparent and ethical way.

Our tax services include:

• Tax advice
• Customs advice
• Assistance with tax and customs audits
• Limited tax review
• In-depth tax audit
• Due diligence
• Negotiation of exceptional tax regimes
• Optimisation of investments
• Drafting of tax procedures manual
• Optimisation of the tax function in business
• Tax risk mapping
• Transfer pricing and flow optimisation.

Ambitious organisations need to consider their tax affairs carefully to gain trust and stay ahead of their competitors.

At Grant Thornton, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Using a combination of reason and instinct, we can work with you to develop a strategy that helps you both understand and manage your tax liability transparently and ethically.

How we work 

Whether you’re a medium-sized dynamic business or a multinational company, we offer one-to-one access to senior tax people across the globe. Our teams listen closely to your needs and respond quickly with insightful solutions.

Our tax services include:

• Compliance services
• Corporate tax services
• Employment taxes
• Global mobility services (expat tax)
• International tax
• Private client services
• Tax management services
• Transfer pricing.

Our tax and legal services help you gain trust and stay ahead, enabling you to manage your tax and legal transparently and ethically.

We provide various legal services accompanying your organization at every step of the expansion of your activities, ensuring success in your endeavours while also safeguarding your interests.

Our services in setting up your firm include:

• Business law
• Labour law
• Individual and company taxation
• Tax, customs, and social audits and compliance
• International taxation and Transfer pricing
• Legal advice
• Assistance in legal proceedings
• Recovery and reorganisation (mergers, acquisitions and consolidation)
• Secretarial services
• Legal administrative tasks.

Tax regimes and compliance regulations change rapidly and with corporate activities in one jurisdiction having a major impact on tax liabilities in others, it is important to stay on top. Through innovative solutions that manage your liabilities, Grant Thornton tax specialists can give you the advice you need to achieve your commercial objectives.

Our tax services are designed to reflect the expectations of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the needs of our clients, from large multinationals and privately held businesses to individuals.

Our tax services include:

• Transfer pricing
  Helping clients to comply with transfer pricing rules, in a cost-effective and efficient way, as legislation continues to develop.
  
  
• Direct international tax
  Advising clients on clear and practical tax planning solutions to help manage tax exposure.
  
  
• Global mobility services
  Helping clients proactively address the challenges of differing regulations so that international relocations meet very specific and complex tax rules.
  
  
• Indirect taxes
  Providing services, at every stage of a business cycle, to clients that operate across borders making commercial transactions as well as advising clients looking to seize opportunities in new markets.
  
  
• KRA audit support services
  KRA audits are rigorous and consume a lot of senior management time. We assist our clients throughout the audit process by assisting in the preparation of all the information required and responding to queries by the revenue authority so that the audits are completed more efficiently. Our approach is to facilitate the audit from our offices and involve client senior management only for critical matters so that they can focus on their core responsibilities.

Ambitious organisations need to consider their tax affairs carefully to gain trust and stay ahead of their competitors.

At Grant Thornton, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Using a combination of reason and instinct, we can work with you to develop a strategy that helps you both understand and manage your tax liability transparently and ethically.

How we work

Whether you’re a medium-sized dynamic business or a multinational company, we offer one-to-one access to senior tax people across the globe. Our teams listen closely to your needs and respond quickly with insightful solutions.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate and business tax such as tax authority queries, mergers and acquisitions and reorganisations, payroll services, secretarial services and tax solutions
• Global taxation services such as transfer pricing, global economic consulting, international executive searches
• Indirect taxes such as VAT advisory, customs and excise and other trade tax advisory
• Taxation of individuals, entrepreneurial initiatives, and property taxes.

Ambitious organisations need to consider their tax affairs carefully to gain trust and stay ahead of their competitors.

At Grant Thornton, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate and personal tax compliance
• International tax
• Transfer pricing
• Tax health check
• Tax representation before revenue authorities
• Tax policy and planning
• Tax registration.

Whether you’re a medium-sized dynamic business or a multinational company, we offer one-to-one access to senior tax people across the globe. Our teams listen closely to your needs and respond quickly with insightful solutions.

Our tax services include:

• Tax optimisation
• Assistance with verifications
• International taxation and transfer pricing
• Tax studies
• Strategy and prevention advice
• Tax audit
• Tax categorisation
• Tax clearance.

Ambitious organisations must consider their tax affairs carefully to gain trust and stay ahead of their competitors.

At Grant Thornton, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Using a combination of reason and instinct, we can work with you to develop a strategy that helps you both understand and manage your tax liability transparently and ethically.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate and personal tax compliance
• International tax
• Transfer pricing
• Tax health check
• Tax representation before revenue authorities
• Tax policy and planning
• Tax registration.
• Compliance services
• Corporate income tax
• Direct taxes
• Indirect taxes
• Personal income tax
• Value added tax.

Whether you’re a medium-sized dynamic business or a multinational company, we offer one-to-one access to senior tax people across the globe. Our teams listen closely to your needs and respond quickly with insightful solutions.

Our tax services include:

• Compliance and advisory
  • Transaction planning
  • income tax
  • VAT, CGT and other transactional taxes
  • Reorganisations
  • Mergers and acquisitions
    
    
• Tax health checks
  Tax health checks, also known as compliance checks, ensure that businesses meet their tax obligations and operate within the correct tax framework.
  
  
• International tax
  • Expatriate tax
  • International tax advisory
  • Transfer pricing
    
    
• Private wealth
  • Personal and corporate tax
  • Family wealth planning
    
    
• Compensation and benefits
  • Expatriate tax services
    
    
• Deceased estates and trusts
  Our tax services can assist with the tax implications of deceased estates and trusts
   

At Grant Thornton Senegal, our clients benefit from assistance in resolving legal and administrative issues in the face of changing legal and tax regulations.

Our tax services include:

• Assessment of shareholders’ commitments
• Tax and social audit
• Juridic assistance
• Diagnosis of the economic situation with regard to the cessation of payments
• Determination of crisis exit scenarios
• Preparation of tax and social declarations
• Outsourcing of tax and legal services
• Establishment of staff representative institutions
• Search for industrial and financial partners
• Drafting and management of contracts
• Preventive settlement or legal recovery
• Legal reorganisation.

Our Tax Advisory division in South Africa is one of the fastest-growing areas of our firm that provides clients with proactive and cost-effective tax solutions that align with tomorrow's possibilities.

We adopt an integrated approach to address our clients' business challenges based on their country's 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.

Across our global organisation of more than 130 member firms, our people work towards a common goal setting Grant Thornton apart from the crowd through rigour and technical excellence.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate tax
  We offer your business access to a global network of tax specialists in over 130 countries with extensive corporate tax technical skills to provide meaningful advice and adding value to your organisation.
  
  
• Value-Added Tax (VAT)
  We can manage your overall exposure to indirect taxes, guide you through complex South African Value-Added Tax (VAT) legislation.
  
  
• Global mobility
  Taxes can be complicated, but the SNG Grant Thornton approach is to assist the new assignee with a clear and easy process.
  
  
• Customs and excise tax
  Our Customs and Excise team assist traders with driving cost-effective supply chains while maintaining legitimate trade.
  
  
• Tax technology
  This is the lynchpin of our tax audit and advisory approach in making the tax function of our clients effective in data management tools.
  
  
• International tax and transfer pricing
  Our team is ideally suited to serve large multinationals and other global companies that need on the ground expertise in multiple jurisdictions, given our extensive network of offices around the globe.
  
  
• Due diligence
  Our due diligence team can review the tax returns (with supporting schedules) and contract relating to your significant transactions to help you explore ways to maximise value and ensure that the proposed transactions are appropriately structured.

At Grant Thornton Togo, tax is a core area of ​​our organisation, and our award-winning teams offer you a comprehensive range of solutions, regardless of the size of your business or the challenges it faces.

Based on a combination of reason and instinct, we will work with you to implement a strategy to understand and manage your tax liabilities in a transparent and ethical manner.

Our way of working

Whether you are a dynamic, medium-sized business or a multinational, we offer you personalized, one-on-one access to tax specialists around the world. Our teams listen carefully to your needs and respond quickly with relevant solutions.

Our legal and tax experts are committed beyond their technical skills. They combine their missions with a support and advice approach to provide you with tailor-made services with high-added value.

They think alongside you about optimal and secure solutions, to allow you to concentrate on your core business, develop your activities and seize the best opportunities.

Our experts will support you in an increasingly complex legal and tax environment thanks to a personalized approach, great responsiveness and clear, complete and up-to-date answers to your legal and tax questions.

Our tax services include:

• Legal, tax and social audit
• Specific tax studies
• Tax diagnosis
• Assistance in the event of a tax or social audit (control and litigation)
• Assistance in preparing tax returns
• Legal advice
• Legal Secretariat.

Ambitious organisations need to consider their tax affairs carefully to gain trust and stay ahead of their competitors.

At Grant Thornton Uganda, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate and personal tax compliance
• International tax
• Transfer pricing
• Tax health check
• Tax representation before revenue authorities
• Tax policy and planning
• Tax registration.

At Grant Thornton, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Using a combination of reason and instinct, we can work with you to develop a strategy that helps you both understand and manage your tax liability transparently and ethically.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate and personal tax compliance
• Expatriate tax solutions
• International tax
• Preparation and filing of annual tax returns
• Quarterly calculations of tax provisions
• Reverse VAT agency
• Tax health check
• Transfer pricing advisory
• VAT audits and consulting.

Ambitious organisations need to consider their tax affairs carefully to gain trust and stay ahead of their competitors.

At Grant Thornton, tax is a key part of our organisation and our award-winning teams can offer you a range of solutions, whatever the size of your business or the challenges you’re facing.

Using a combination of reason and instinct, we can work with you to develop a strategy that helps you both understand and manage your tax liability transparently and ethically.

How we work 

Whether you’re a medium-sized dynamic business or a multinational company, we offer one-to-one access to senior tax people across the globe. Our teams listen closely to your needs and respond quickly with insightful solutions.

Our tax services include:

• Corporate and personal tax compliance
• Employee tax
• Expatriate tax solutions
• Capital gains tax
• International tax
• Preparation and filing of annual tax returns
• Tax health check
• Transfer pricing advisory
• Value added tax services.