05/12/2016
The Panama Papers and the Africa Story
But mining concessions are being sold for much less than their market value, to middle people who resell them at vast profits.
Tax
05/11/2016
Revised Mauritius tax pact may hit overseas fund flows
The new regime will apply on shares acquired on or after April 1, 2017, the finance ministry said in a statement.
05/11/2016
Imperial Bank owners linked to shell firms in overseas tax havens
There is no suggestion of wrong doing on the part of the Kenyans with accounts in the tax havens.
05/10/2016
Zimbabwe’s Innscor Africa Directors Caught Up in Panama Papers
Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank says it did not authorize directors of consumer giant Innscor Africa to open offshore accounts uncovered in the ongoing Panama Papers investigation.
05/06/2016
What financial transparency means in Panama Papers era
For some taxpayers including South Africans, the CRS is already "live"; for others it is imminent.
05/05/2016
South African tax by ENS Africa
Recent Binding Private Rulings, Binding Class Rulings and Binding General Rulings
04/29/2016
Liberia: Africa's Unknown Tax Haven With Much To Lose
As world leaders consider what to do about the revelations emerging from the Panama Papers, Liberia's government will be worrying about the fall-out that may cross the Atlantic Ocean from the affair.
04/29/2016
South Africa Voluntary Disclosure Programme - Deloitte
From 1 October 2016 a special Voluntary Disclosure Facility will open which will allow natural persons, corporates and close companies, which are resident in South Africa, to disclose previously undisclosed foreign assets and income to regularise their t
04/27/2016
Africa tax in brief by Celia Becker, ENS Africa
BOTSWANA: Protocol to treaty between Botswana and Sweden enters into force
04/26/2016
Forget the Camerons, the African giveaway is the real Panama Papers story Kevin Watkins
Offshore accounts have helped people get rich off the continent’s natural resources – just not ordinary citizens
04/26/2016
Should Wealthy Ugandans Pay More Taxes?
This is nearly three times the budget allocated to the standard body, a government institution charged with fighting counterfeit and substandard products flooding the market.
04/22/2016
Interview of Gary Gowrea, Managing Director of Cim Tax Services
The BEPS project and CRS are in line with international efforts to counter tax evasion, tax avoidance and fraud; it aims at making it more difficult for companies that have legal entities registered in low-tax jurisdictions to take advantage of the favora
04/22/2016
Tax ’amnesty' could spur on emigration, warn experts
The special disclosure programme was announced in the February budget and offers taxpayers the chance of paying tax and interest on undeclared income from 2010 until 2015.
04/20/2016
International organisations take major step to boost global co-operation in tax matters
The first of these toolkits, focusing on tax incentives, was delivered in November.
04/18/2016
Nigeria: The Panama Papers and Sacred Cows
The 11.5 million documents handled by the Panama-based Mossack Fonseca, released to an International Consortium of Journalists and a German newspaper have reverberated around world capitals.
04/13/2016
Zim-SA double tax law gazetted
When the double tax regulations come into force the new agreement will replace the outdated agreement between the two countries, signed in 1965.
04/12/2016
Firms on World Bank projects in Africa use tax havens, stunt growth, Oxfam says
Oxfam urged the World Bank to address the tax haven issue and “responsible corporate tax behavior” at its spring meeting that starts this week in Washington, D.C., and to implement measures to prevent multinational enterprises from using tax h
04/08/2016
Africa’s richest man, Dangote, his brother, Dantata, linked to shell companies in tax havens
Yet that question has become even more relevant across the globe following discoveries of several secret shell companies linked to the businessman, his allies and relatives.
04/08/2016
Panama Papers: How Jersey-based oil firm avoided taxes in Uganda
Revelations from the Panama Papers show how a company based in Jersey, a British crown dependency, attempted to avoid paying $400m (£280m) in Capital Gains Tax to the Ugandan government, writes BBC Africa's Rob Wilson.
04/06/2016
All tax dodge reports probed, says Gordhan
"The world is systemically narrowing the scope for those who want to hide their offshore assets and avoid paying their taxes due to the South African fiscus," he said.