Reduce your tax bill legally. Most businesses overpay without knowing it.
There is nothing improper about arranging your affairs to pay the least tax the law allows — the improper thing is doing it by guesswork. We find the reliefs, allowances, timings and structures Ugandan law already gives you, and turn them into a written, defensible plan.
The tax law contains reliefs you're not using — and traps you can't see.
Ugandan tax law is full of choices with price tags attached: when to recognise income, how to finance an asset purchase, whether a venture sits in the company or beside it, how to pay yourself, when a donation is deductible, which allowances apply to which assets. Every one of those choices has a cheaper lawful answer and a more expensive default.
Most businesses take the expensive default on every single one — not by decision, but by never asking. Meanwhile the same businesses sometimes stumble into aggressive positions an adviser would have flagged instantly, and discover them during an audit.
Planning is simply making those choices deliberately, in advance, on paper. It is the highest-return work we do: unlike compliance, which protects money, planning routinely recovers it.
The cost of waiting: Planning only works in advance. Once the year closes, the transaction signs, or the audit opens, most options are gone — the difference between planning and regret is usually a few months.
What this can cost you
- Capital allowances and reliefs left unclaimed, year after year
- Transactions structured expensively when a lawful cheaper route existed
- Owner remuneration set up in the most-taxed possible way
- Growth decisions (new branch, new company, new asset) taken tax-blind
- Aggressive positions taken unknowingly — surfacing later as audit adjustments
- The 30% tax-EBITDA interest cap or loss rules triggered by accident
What people assume
“Tax planning is for big corporations — and it's basically the same thing as tax avoidance.”
What's actually true
Planning is using the choices the law explicitly provides — allowances, reliefs, timings, structures — and documenting them. It scales down beautifully: a UGX 200M business often has proportionally more to gain than a multinational, because nobody has ever looked. What's risky isn't planning; it's improvising.
What we handle for you
- Full review of your current tax position across all heads
- Capital allowance and relief optimisation
- Transaction structuring — asset purchases, financing, disposals, expansion
- Owner and director remuneration planning (salary/dividend/benefits mix)
- Timing strategies for income, expenditure and investment
- Written planning memos that stand up to URA scrutiny
A defined process, start to finish
We review
A structured review of your returns, accounts and plans for the next 12–24 months. We map every position against the reliefs available.
We plan
You receive a written plan: each opportunity quantified in shillings, each risk flagged, each recommendation grounded in the law.
We implement
We work with you (and your accountant or lawyer) to implement — then review annually, because the law changes every Finance Act.
Deliverables
- Written tax planning report, quantified in UGX
- Prioritised opportunity list with implementation steps
- Risk register: current positions that need correcting
- Transaction-specific structuring memos as needed
- Annual refresh aligned to each new Finance Act
- Direct access to a senior adviser for decisions through the year
Priced to your situation — not a rate card
Planning is scoped to the size and complexity of what we're planning — and judged against the savings it finds.
“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.”
Illustrative composite scenario reflecting real client patterns — details changed to protect confidentiality.
FAQs — Tax Planning & Advisory
Yes. Using reliefs, allowances and structures the law provides is lawful and expected — courts have long distinguished it from evasion, which is concealing facts. Everything we recommend is documented and disclosed appropriately.
Your accountant records and reports what happened. Planning happens before things happen — shaping the transaction, the timing and the structure while there are still choices. The two roles work best together.
It varies too much to promise a number. Common wins: unclaimed capital allowances, remuneration restructuring, financing structure, and timing of major purchases. The review quantifies your case before you commit to anything.
We don't do aggressive. Every recommendation is a position we would defend in an audit without discomfort — that's the standard, and it's also the reason planning documentation matters as much as the idea itself.
Before your year-end, and before any major transaction — those are the two moments when options are widest. The worst time is after URA has already asked questions.
Not sure where you stand? Let's find out — before URA does it for you.
A 30-minute consultation tells you exactly where you stand, what it will cost to fix, and what happens if you wait. No obligation.