TAX

We provide advice on all aspects of income tax, value-added tax, customs and excise, stamp duty, and other government levies. Our team of lawyers is well-versed in tax policy and jurisprudence in the country and represents both local and international businesses in complex high-profile transactions and disputes. Our services also include dispute resolution in tax matters, such as litigation in courts and the tax appeals tribunal, administrative engagement with the Uganda Revenue Authority, and lobbying with the Ministry of Finance.

In addition, we offer planning and advisory services on various tax-related issues, such as tax compliance, tax planning, and tax structuring as detailed below:

• International taxation: cross-border M&A transactions, thin-capitalisation and cross-border financing issues, transfer pricing, branch taxation, and treaty structuring, etc.
• Business income taxation: corporation tax and partnership tax issues.
• Capital gains tax.
• Taxation of financial institutions, insurance companies and telecommunications
• Taxation of mining companies
• Taxation of petroleum operations
• Withholding tax on domestic and international payments
• Tax compliance: tax health-check audits, tax computations, returns, objections and appeals.
• VAT: returns, apportionment and adjustment, objections, appeals and litigation
• Customs law, procedures, classification and valuation
• Tax litigation at all levels
• Drafting tax legislation for Governments
• Excise duty and duty drawback
• Lobbying and negotiating fiscal regimes for large-scale investment projects