Taxes eat up 93pc of Britam’s Sh1bn profit

Britam Holdings Plc staff during the Britam's financial results official release for the year ended 31 December 2020. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG

Insurance group Britam Holdings #ticker:BRIT paid a higher-than-usual tax rate of 92.8 percent in the year ended December after it made provisions for investment losses of Sh5.2 billion.

The provisions cannot be used to lower tax obligations, a move that saw the company pay taxes amounting to Sh939.3 million on the pre-tax earnings of Sh1 billion.

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