How tax problems actually get solved.

“Meet 'Nakato' — a Kampala landlord with three years of unfiled rental tax and an estimated assessment of UGX 48M. We reconstructed her actual rental records, filed the three years correctly, and objected to the estimate. Her true liability came to UGX 11M, with penalties substantially reduced under the waiver. Her tenants never knew URA had been involved.”

“Meet 'Okello's General Store' — a growing Kampala retailer that had never registered. A supplier's EFRIS records put them on URA's radar and an estimated demand followed. We registered them properly, filed three backlog years under the presumptive schedule, and the final bill came to less than a third of URA's estimate.”

“Meet 'Kirabo Interiors' — a furniture business whose VAT returns hadn't matched their EFRIS invoices for over a year. We cleaned up 14 months of reconciliations, refiled where needed, and took over the cycle. Their next TCC renewal went through without a single query.”

“Meet 'Ssemakula & Sons Construction' — pre-qualified for a district roads tender, TCC rejected twice with no explanation. Our diagnosis found one unfiled WHT return from 2023 and a UGX 240,000 mis-posted balance. Both cleared in four days; the TCC was issued with a week to spare before the tender closed.”

“Meet 'Kiggundu Holdings' — mid-negotiation with an investor when due diligence found five years of missing annual returns and a shareholder register that still showed the founder's late father. We cleaned up the file in three weeks, papered the historical transfers properly, and the deal closed on schedule.”

“Meet 'Mubiru Logistics' — crossed UGX 800M turnover but still filing like a small business. Our first-year review found three years of unclaimed capital allowances on their truck fleet worth UGX 94M in deductions, alongside a provisional tax gap quietly accruing interest. Net effect of doing it properly: a materially lower, safer tax position.”

“Meet 'Namutebi Pharmacy Group' — three branches, thousands of small sales, and eight months of invoices issued outside EFRIS after a failed setup. We rebuilt the configuration around their POS, negotiated the historical exposure, and put monthly reconciliation in place. Their VAT return now matches EFRIS to the shilling.”

“Meet 'Dr. Achen' — a consultant physician who assumed her hospital's payroll covered everything. Her TIN check found an old consultancy registration with four years of unfiled returns and UGX 7M in accumulating penalties — and a WHT credit she didn't know she had. Net position after clean-up: she owed less than half the penalties that had accrued, and now files clean each year.”

“Meet 'Byaruhanga Group' — a family trading business about to buy UGX 600M of warehouse and equipment, financed half by loan. Structured the default way, the allowances and interest would have been claimed wrongly and part disallowed. Planned properly — right entity, right split, right timing — the first two years' tax saving exceeded UGX 60M, fully documented.”

“Meet 'Hope & Harvest Uganda' — a growing NGO with a major donor audit six weeks away and a sinking feeling about their files. Our review found the income tax exemption had never formally been granted and eight months of WHT had been missed. We secured the exemption, regularised the arrears, and built the compliance file. The donor audit passed with one minor note.”

“Meet 'Kasozi Beverages' — a distributor facing a comprehensive audit with a preliminary finding of UGX 310M across VAT and income tax. The finding rested on a flawed bank-deposit analysis that double-counted inter-account transfers. We rebuilt the analysis, evidenced it, and the final agreed position closed at UGX 41M with penalties waived on the principal areas. The audit closed in four months.”

“Meet 'Alupo Hardware' — assessed UGX 86M after a data-matching exercise treated her wholesale purchases as unreported sales. Our objection demonstrated the goods were stock-in-trade with margins evidenced by her EFRIS records. The assessment was vacated in full at objection stage — it never needed ADR.”

“Meet 'Mwesige Construction' — UGX 480M in dispute, advocates instructed, trial approaching. Our review found two of URA's four positions were strong and two were baseless. Armed with that split, the client settled the strong issues at a discount and litigated only the weak ones — cutting total exposure by more than half and eighteen months of proceedings.”

“Meet 'Tumusiime Group' — two companies and a rental portfolio, previously served by three different providers and a drawer of unopened URA letters. Year one on retainer: 41 filings on time, two URA enquiries closed without adjustment, UGX 28M in planning savings identified at the annual review — and a managing director who reports simply: 'I don't think about URA anymore.'”

“Meet 'Mr. Rwabwogo' — fourteen rental properties in his personal name, two trading companies, and a plan consisting of a handwritten will. The restructure moved properties into a family property company, separated the trading risks, and papered the succession. Annual tax saving: material. But what he mentions to friends is the other part: 'my children will never fight over a title deed.'”