Prior to the firm’s admission as a full member of the Andersen Global network in January 2021, the firm previously operated under the name ATax Advisors. However, the tax practice of 30 professionals offers a full tax service covering direct and indirect tax, compliance, FATCA, and tax controversy. Tax partner Joe Chan leads the practice.
The boutique law firm assistis multinational enterprises, blue chip companies, HNWI, family offices and listed companies on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius in all tax matters. The firm offers a variety of tax services (whether its contentious, advisory, or tax compliance) with extensive experience in cross-border transactional tax. Managing director Johanne Hague leads the tax practice comprising three barristers at law.
In November 2022, the tax team represented a building material company in a precedential case before the tax tribunal regarding environmental protection fee, which the Mauritius Tax authority argues the client is subject to pay tax on its wholesale turnover and not partial to the turnover from the designated impugn activities.
The full-service law firm’s tax practice has a mixture of lawyers and accountants with tax expertise. Thierry Koenig, Maxime Sauzier and Shrivan Dabee are the senior figures leading the practice, which offers a comprehensive tax service with extensive experience in disputes cases and in cross-border projects acting as the single point of contact.
Case studies show the tax team is acting as the legal advisor for MCB Leasing Limited and MCB Capital Markets before the Mauritius tax authority regarding the disagreement of the taxpayers’ partial exemption of income tax in respect of their interest income.
The Ukrainian law firm specialises in tax legal and compliance with extensive experience in tax dispute resolution. Some of the key tax areas the team specialises in are post-audit, tax due diligence, customs, VAT and more. There are five tax partners in the team led by senior partner Alexander Minin.
