Finance Bill 2023/24

Alice Muriithi is an Associate Director at PwC Kenya - Tax Unit with over 10 years experience. Alice Is a specialist in tax and transfer pricing . Her core areas of expertise are in advising clients on a diverse range of tax issues such as corporate tax and witholding tax consulting, transfer pricing planning & dispute resolution and double tax treaty interpretation and optimization.

Alice's tax experience involves aspects such as corporate tax consulting, withholding tax reviews and inbound tax advice. Alice has also been involved in designing transfer pricing policies for Kenyan grown multinationals with a presence across Africa and advising global multinational on transfer pricing issues arising in areas such as franchise fees, royalties , management fees , trade of products across borders and economic substance reviews.

Alice has experience in defending clients' tax position both before the Revenue Authority and before the Tax Appeals Tribunal.

Alice’s articles on the subject of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, international tax and transfer pricing have been published by leading dailies such as the Business Daily, Daily Nation and the East African Standard. Alice has made submissions on international tax issues to various policy makers such as the Parliamentary Budget Office and the Finance and Trade Committee of Parliament.

Alice holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting option) from the University of Nairobi and is a CPA finalist. Alice also holds an Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) with distinction issued by the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Kenneth is a Partner at ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna (ALN Kenya) and a member of the tax department. He has specialist skills in Kenyan and cross border taxation.

Kenneth routinely advises clients on all tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and corporate restructurings and on business and transaction structuring generally. He also assists clients in complex tax audits and disputes with the Kenya Revenue Authority.

Kenneth is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Public Secretary. He is ranked as a leading tax lawyer in Kenya by Chambers Global and Legal 500.

Patrick is an experienced tax professional having worked at the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) for about 25 years. At KRA, he worked in agriculture, manufacturing, energy and excise sectors among others. He headed the transfer pricing audit sector (now transformed into the International Tax Office) for 10 years. He was also involved in tax treaty negotiations and represented Kenya in base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) discussions at the OECD. He is also a member of the inclusive framework that oversees the implementation of BEPS recommendations. He has been involved in capacity building in several African countries notably the Republic of Botswana where the focus was taxation of the diamond sector, a program sponsored by UNDP in conjunction with the OECD.

He is an accredited trainer for the commonwealth on matters of tax treaties. 

He holds a Masters of Laws (LLM), Bachelor of laws (LLB), Bachelor of Arts (Economics) and is currently pursuing Masters of Arts (Economics) at the University of Nairobi. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K).

Ken Gichinga is the Founder and Chief Economist at Mentoria Economics. His primary role is to provide clients with strategic insights on the global, regional and Kenyan economy. Prior to this, Ken served as a Senior Economist at Commercial Bank of Africa (now NCBA) as well as Equity Bank. Ken has also served as a Business Analyst at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle, USA. He holds an Economics Degree from Harvard University and has been a recipient of the inaugural Business Daily Top 40 under 40 award in 2011. Every Tuesday, Ken hosts a weekly radio/podcast show on Capital FM titled Financial Forecasts.

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Lydia is a lawyer with an accounting background.

Areas of Expertise
― She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with nine (9) years’ experience cutting across corporate law, taxation laws, tax dispute resolution, corporate law, regulatory
compliance and risk management.
― Currently, Lydia is the Regulatory Practice lead at KPMG East Africa; where she leads a dynamic team of professionals in corporate due diligence reviews, legal audits, restructuring advisories, employment law advisory, immigration support and tax dispute resolution.
― Lydia has been involved in assisting many clients to ensure tax compliance and resolve Kenya Revenue Authority assessments, she is experienced in the appeal processes and procedures and negotiations with the KRA.
― She has a good understanding of international taxation and has helped many foreign companies to start operations in Kenya in a very tax optimal way.

Kivindyo is a Dispute Resolution Associate at TripleOKLaw LLP Advocates. He is versatile and experienced in diverse areas of complex commercial litigation encompassing Tax law, Competition Law, Construction Law, Intellectual Property and Sports Law. He also boosts high expertise in Commercial Arbitration having represented several blue-chip companies and individuals in arbitration disputes as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Kenya.

He is a member of several tax-related-committees chief among them, the Tax Taskforce for the American Chamber of Commerce, Kenya as well as the Tax Committee for the Law Society of Kenya, Nairobi branch. As part of these cohorts of exceptional individuals, he participates in high-level stakeholder discussions on tax matters, ranging from legislative proposals and policies and public awareness on tax related issues. He has appeared as a panel member at the 9th Pan African Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Taxation where he touched on profit shifting and tax avoidance, the impact of multinational tax practices on inequality in Kenya. He is currently pursuing a Post Graduate Diploma in Tax Administration at the Kenya School of Revenue Administration.

Outside office hours Kivindyo likes to mentor and coach students participating in mooting competitions having been an avid mooter himself participating in renowned global moot competitions like the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot in Suffolk University and the Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Oxford.

Kivindyo continuously publishes in the firm’s Above Standard Newsletter as well as on other regional and international sites such as Afriwise.