Compliance without the scramble

Taxation

Returns filed on time, exposure understood upfront, and a straight answer when NamRA asks a question.

Tax is where small administrative slips turn into penalties and interest. We take the whole cycle off your desk: registration, computation, submission, assessment checks and disputes. Deadlines stop being an event.

Accounting is not taxation

Accounting rules are geared towards slowing down income and speeding up expenses. Tax rules aim to do the opposite. So the question worth asking about your own books is this: does your accountant or bookkeeper compute your tax transactions against the specific Namibian tax laws governing each tax type under review, or do they follow IFRS or GAAP to show your financial performance? Both are legitimate work. Only one of them is what you are assessed on.

Compliance, run as a calendar

We build a filing calendar for your entity the moment we take you on: every return, every due date, every reconciliation. Then we work to it. You get a reminder before we need anything from you, and confirmation once a submission is lodged. No end-of-month surprises.

Planning before the fact, not after

Structure, timing and the treatment of a transaction usually determine the tax outcome long before a return is filed. We would rather look at a deal, a restructure or an asset purchase while it is still a plan. Where the position is genuinely uncertain, we say so and set out the range instead of promising a number.

Assessments, objections and disputes

When an assessment does not agree with your return, the response has to be evidenced and it has to be on time. We reconcile the assessment, identify what actually drove the difference, and prepare the objection with supporting schedules. Then we carry the correspondence for you.

Arrears and payment arrangements

Old liabilities do not resolve themselves. We reconstruct the account, separate genuine capital from penalties and interest, and negotiate a payment arrangement your cash flow can actually carry.

What is included

Scope ofthis service

  • Corporate and international tax
  • Income tax returns for companies, close corporations, trusts and individuals
  • Provisional tax computations and first, second and third submissions
  • VAT registration, monthly and bi-monthly returns, and input tax reviews
  • Employee taxes: PAYE, SSC and withholding tax returns and reconciliations
  • Customs and commercial transactions on international trade, import and export
  • Tax dispute resolution, objections and appeals
  • Tax planning, business set-up and investment tax advisory
  • Tax clearance and good-standing certificate applications

Why it matters

What wrong tax computation actually costs

None of the following is unusual, and none of it requires bad faith on anyone's part. Each one follows from figures that were prepared for accounting rather than for tax.

  • Formal audits triggered by the agency
  • Underpaid tax, or overpaid tax you never reclaim
  • Expenses disallowed and considerations recharacterised as taxable income
  • Exorbitant assessed capital tax debt, often in the millions
  • Heavy interest charges, late fees and legal penalties for non-compliance
  • Enforcement and administrative action, including freezing of bank accounts
  • Capital transactions such as loans recharacterised as taxable income
  • No tax clearance certificate and no good standing certificate issued
  • Disqualification as a vendor for government tender awards
  • Disqualification from other mandatory regulatory compliance, such as SSC and BIPA
  • Disruption, stoppage or discontinuation of business operations
  • Work permits refused or not renewed, and the deportations that follow

Questions we get

AboutTaxation

It is common and it is fixable. We start with a full account reconstruction so you know the real exposure, then bring the filings up to date in the order that reduces penalties fastest.

Yes. Director and shareholder returns usually interact with the company position, so it is better handled together than in isolation.

Ready to hand this over?

Tell us the position you are in and we will tell you what it needs, even when that turns out to be less than you expected.

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