Tax Compliance and Consulting

Our tax compliance services are built on proven excellence in delivery and solid expertise. BLC’s comprehensive teams of tax experts focus on streamlining processes, cutting costs, and ensuring that our clients derive maximum impact from our country-specific knowledge. The broad expertise found in our Tax Center of Excellence is leveraged and shared across the company, creating intelligent solutions that are continually updated and put to work for our clients.

We like giving our clients a fixed fee so they know exactly how much they’re paying for our services. If you bundle taxation and bookkeeping services together, not only will it end up being cheaper than using two separate organizations but you will also have the peace of mind of knowing exactly how much it will cost you before we do the work.

Monthly Tax Compliance

Our annual tax compliance services Include :

  • VAT Compliance
    • Preparation of statement based on the different classifications of supplies as per the requirements of the law
    • Establish whether VAT is correctly charged on supply of taxable goods and services and establish whether input tax is properly claimed.
    • Preparation of input and output VAT schedules to determine net VAT payable.
    • Generation of online payment registration for the payment
    • Preparation and online submission of the VAT statement to the tax authorities on a periodically as required by the law.
  • WHT Compliance
    • Compute the withholding tax payable as per the Income Tax Law of the country
    • Generation of online payment registration for the payment
    • Prepare and submit the monthly and year-end statements to the authority
  • Employee tax compliance (PAYE, NSSF & Local Service Tax)
    • Computation of Gross chargeable Income of all the employees including value of the taxable perquisites. Apply appropriate individual tax slabs to compute PAYE liability.
    • Computation of NSSF liability as per the laws of Uganda
    • Computation of Local Service Tax liability as per the laws of regional councils
    • Preparation of detailed Payroll computation containing accrued salary to the employees, statutory deductions and deduction of appropriate taxes to arrive at salary in hand to the employees.
    • Submissions of PAYE return, NSSF returns and Local Service Tax Statements to the appropriate authorities

Annual Tax Compliance

Our annual tax compliance services Include :

  • Finalization of Year End Accounting & Preparation of Tax Returns for all entity types – Companies, Trusts, Partnerships & Individuals
  • Maintenance of Depreciation Schedules & Asset Registers
  • Preparation of fully referenced Electronic Working Papers to be ready for future Audit from URA
  • Preparation of Deferred Tax Statement
  • Preparation of tax reconciliation statements
  • Preparation of VAT and PAYE Reconciliation statements
  • Preparation of WHT reconciliation statement

Tax Consultancy

At BLC, we are not only master in compliances but also in pro-active tax measures such as tax planning, organization structural advisory, advance rulings from authorities, securing tax exemption from authorities and much more to help our client in better planning of the taxes and improve compliance measures.

Our annual tax compliance services Include :

  • Help in tax planning and framing tax strategies
  • Business and investment structural advisory
  • Securing Tax Exemption from the authorities
  • Management of Various types of Tax Audits carried out by URA including objection to the assessed positions
  • Providing tax opinions
  • Preparation of Transfer Pricing Policy and Documentation
  • Advise on international taxation and double taxable avoidance treaty between Uganda and various countries
  • Tax Health checks
  • Retirement and estate planning