Cross-Border Tax Advisory for Mobile Workforces
Coordinated cross-border and mobility-related tax advisory, delivered with specialist tax counsel.
Overview
Moving people across borders creates tax questions that immigration advice alone cannot answer: where an assignee becomes tax resident, how an employer's withholding obligations change, and how double taxation agreements apply to a specific assignment. We coordinate that advice — identifying the exposure your mobility programme creates and bringing in specialist tax counsel to opine where formal tax advice is required, so immigration and tax positions are consistent rather than contradictory.
Who It's For
- Employers running inbound or outbound assignments into and out of Kenya.
- HR and mobility teams structuring assignment packages and relocation allowances.
- Foreign nationals whose Kenyan residence may change their tax residency position.
- Investors assessing the tax profile of a planned Kenyan structure.
Our Process
Exposure Review
We map your assignments and workforce against the questions that typically create tax consequences — duration, residence, employer of record and payment source.
Coordination with Tax Counsel
Where a formal tax opinion is needed, we brief and coordinate specialist tax advisers, so they receive a complete and accurate immigration picture.
Aligned Advisory
You receive immigration and tax guidance that reconcile with one another, rather than two workstreams arriving at incompatible answers.
Ongoing Review
Assignment extensions and structural changes are reassessed, since both can move a tax residency position.
Required Documents
- Assignment letters or employment contracts for affected staff
- Assignment durations and travel history
- Details of the paying entity and payroll arrangements
- Any existing tax advice previously obtained
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you a tax practice?
No — and we are deliberate about that. We are immigration and mobility advisers. We identify where your mobility programme creates tax exposure and coordinate specialist tax counsel to provide formal tax advice. We do not hold ourselves out as tax specialists.
Why not just go to a tax firm directly?
You can, and sometimes that is the right route. The value we add is that tax advice on a mobile workforce is only as good as the immigration facts it is built on — assignment length, permit class and residence status all drive the analysis. We make sure those facts are correct before the tax question is asked.
Can you tell me whether I will be tax resident in Kenya?
We can explain the factors that determine it and flag when your circumstances put the question in play. A definitive position on your tax residency should come from qualified tax counsel, which we will coordinate.
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