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Our accounting and tax compliance services include a number of offerings that are particularly useful to privately owned companies and their owners. Our services will ensure that the business owner is left to focus on running their business, while we take care of their accounting work, including:
· Writing up the cash book
· Preparing the bank reconciliation on a monthly basis
· Accounting of purchases and expenses (including supplier general ledger)
· Accounting of income from the relevant system
· Maintaining an asset register, which includes:
documenting of all the assets according to their asset category;
calculating depreciation on a monthly basis according to Practice Note 19 of the ZRA
· Preparing a balance sheet and income statement on a monthly basis for management purposes, and
· Preparing VAT returns
We also provide these services to business owners in their personal capacity, as well as to trusts. Our services include the compilation of personal financial statements, personal tax returns, and tax compliance services, namely:
· Submission of provisional tax returns
· Obtaining extensions if necessary
· Preparing the year-end tax return
· Checking the final tax assessment
Do you know what your Zambian tax residence status is?
Have you completed your tax returns accurately? Are you reasonably certain that you have declared all of your taxable receipts, e.g. your salary, dividends and distributions from offshore trusts, to ZRA?
Are you comfortable with your offshore tax obligations and its interaction with your Zambian tax liability?
·Do you need help regularising your position with ZRA?
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU
Income tax planning
We can help you structure the way you hold your business and personal interests to ensure you maintain compliance with domestic and global tax reporting obligations. This will enable you to take full advantage of available reliefs and double tax treaties.
We can help you assess your worldwide assets (both offshore and onshore) to ensure that you understand the tax implications of holding these assets and how any income streams will be taxed. We also advise on the impact of changing your residence from a tax and exchange control perspective, whether for an inbound or outbound move.
We advise on the tax implications of withdrawing from different types of retirement funds, as well as the interaction of double tax treaties where a person chooses to reside in a different country post-retirement.
Specific services include regularisation, retirement planning, second homes and investment properties, luxury asset advisory.
We’ll guide you through the tax compliance season in Zambia to manage your expectations around when tax payments are due, so that deadlines are met and you remain fully compliant.
Specific services include preparation and submission of annual income tax returns (ITR12) and provisional tax returns (IRP6), exchange control applications (including foreign investment allowance applications) and directive applications.
We help you in building lasting value by developing your own individual owner strategy, combining the business and family strategies into a single holistic concept. We’ll work with you and your family to assess your challenges, discuss the scope of your governance design and develop sustainable solutions. We’ll cover topics spanning your goals and values, the owner business model, corporate and family governance, succession planning and implementation to ensure an individually tailored solution.
We provide a full array of business services to your family offices, wherever they’re located, in order to help you to protect and manage your family wealth in a structured manner. We’ll help provide a sense of comfort that your family’s affairs are being looked after in a more personal manner that suits your individual needs.
Specific services include family business services, family office services.
In performing your audit, we will strive to go beyond a financial statement opinion to help you identify and manage your risks – control, compliance and operational – as well as generate value-added ideas and solutions. Your relationship with your trusted business advisor ensures that we add value to you at all times.
We will:
· Focus on understanding your strategic business plans and operational processes in addition to the financial statements
· Perform a thorough risk assessment to develop the audit plan
· Develop an audit that builds on a growing understanding of your internal controls, policies and procedures, recognising the importance of internal controls
· Include industry and subject matter experts in the audit process as part of your service team
· Assess your financial statement compliance, and
· Emphasise continuous and open communication with management.
Some of the common reasons for organisations embarking on BPM projects include:
Improve efficiency: eliminate manual data entry, reduce process cycle time and/or reduce manual routing
·Improve effectiveness: handle exceptions faster and better, make better decisions and/or consistent execution
·Become more agile: adapting to change as a key source of competitive advantage and/or supporting new business models.