Firms in dilemma as ‘top-up’ tax deadline looms

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Analysts at Bowmans say the complexity revolves around the formula used to compute the effective tax rate, which relies on financial accounting figures rather than traditional tax computations.

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Large multinational companies operating in Kenya are caught in a compliance dilemma after the State failed to provide subsidiary regulations needed to implement the new global minimum tax law despite a looming April 30 payment deadline.

The minimum top-up tax rule requires multinational enterprises, with consolidated annual global revenues of at least €750 million (about Sh114 billion) in at least two of the previous four accounting periods, to pay at least 15 percent tax on profits made in Kenya.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.