Auditax Seminar on VAT and Excise Duty on Financial Services: Dar es Salaam, 12th-13th October 2016

Auditax International Tanzania

Auditax International is holding a seminar on Value Added Tax (VAT) and excise duty on financial services on 12th-13th October 2016, from 8am to 4pm at Protea Court Yard Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Expected participants at the two days seminar are accountants, auditors, tax officers and managers, tax consultants, tax lawyers, tax policy experts, economists, as well as other experts from banks and financial institutions, insurance companies, insurance brokers and agents, pension funds and others.

Topics to be covered at the seminar:

1. VAT on Insurance Services

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  • VAT on Insurance Theory
  • VAT on Insurance Legislation
  • Practical applications
  • Challenges and proposed way forward

2. VAT on Financial Services

  • VAT on Financial Services Theory
  • VAT Legislation on Financial Services
  • Practical applications
  • Challenges and proposed way forward

3. Excise Duty on Financial Services

  • Excise duty theory
  • Excise Duty Legislation and applications
  • Challenges and proposed way forward

4. VAT on imported services reversal charge

  • VAT on Imported services theory and relevance
  • Imported services legislation
  • Practical applications
  • Challenges and proposed way forward

Expected Outcome

Participants will understand and embrace the current tax reforms in the tax insurance and financial services sector at large as well as increase ability to address practical challenges encountered in respective sectors.

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Price: TZS590,000 (VAT inclusive) per person.

Contacts:
Nakundwa Sengoka
Training Coordinator
+255 652 864952
nakundwa@auditaxinternational.com
www.auditaxinternational.com

Auditax International is a Tanzanian service firm providing audit and risk management services, tax services, business advisory services and accounting and legal services.

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