Taxation
Taxation
A comprehensive range of tax advisory services
BLC Robert & Associates serves listed and large privately owned groups, banks, financial intermediaries, investment companies, fund managers and entrepreneurs by assisting them across all spectrum of taxation issues to help them achieve their commercial objectives. We offer our clients innovative tax structures and products to ensure cost-efficient financing, mitigate excessive tax exposure and streamline multi-jurisdictional transactions and reorganisations.
Our Expertise
- Fiscal elements of M&A transactions and restructurings
- Country and cross-border tax advisory
- Transaction tax
- Investment schemes and employee share schemes
- VAT and tax litigation
Key Contacts
Recent Works
- Advising a wide range of clients in respect of tax assessments before the Assessment Review Committee (ARC) of Mauritius and in court.
- Successfully appearing before the Privy Council for Shoprite with respect to an appeal against a VAT assessment on management fees not invoiced nor paid.
- Advising investors on implementing tax and risk optimisation structures with respect to their investments in various African countries.
- Advising private equity firms on their implementation of their share incentive scheme for individuals who are tax resident in the Ivory Coast
- Advised oil & gas trading and distribution throughout Africa on the tax implications following a restructuring of its companies through Mauritius.
- Advising a Swiss multinational and investment bank on the concept of ‘permanent establishment’ in Mauritius using the OECD Model Tax Convention.
- Advising a Pan-African private equity firm on the Mauritian tax implications of its proposed direct/indirect acquisition of a French company.
- Advising a Mauritian global business company on the implementation of a management incentive plan.
- Advising a South African mining group in relation to its Mauritian subsidiary holding a global business license under the previous tax regime and under the new tax regime.
- Advising the Qatar National Bank on a tax matter pertaining to structuring of a debt.
- Advising the Pennsylvania State University on tax matters.
- Advising a multinational conglomerate in developing a tax optimisation structure for its African operations.
- Advising in developing a tax optimization structure for the development of resorts in Mozambique.