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Independent audit and assurance are not just about good governance but valuable tools for benchmarking and improving business performance.

The breadth of knowledge and experience across industries and sectors ensures our diverse teams provide audit and assurance services tailored to the unique needs of your business.

As well as meeting internal reporting requirements and statutory obligations, a robust annual audit identifies both threats and opportunities to your business or organization. Intelligent insight is provided and practical recommendations made.

In addition to carrying out audit and assurance services for individual businesses and organizations, UHY Pillars frequently conduct audits on behalf of parent companies, managing and coordinating the audit process across an entire corporate group.

MEETING REPORTING STANDARDS,

For many clients, audit services provided are used to ensure a subsidiary company meets the reporting requirements of the parent company.

 Income Tax

Income tax is managed by Tax Department – Ministry of Finance, under the amended law No (2) of 2008. Income tax is imposed on foreign companies operate in the state of Kuwait at 15% of the net profits per annum.

The foreign company in the state of Kuwait is defined as: any business body that practice any business or trad activities in Kuwait whether directly or through an agent and whether established in Kuwait or abroad, and the companies are established in the state of Kuwait as representative offices are also subject to income tax.

Our services in UHY Pillars:

Submitting the registration form and flowing the registration process

Review and audit the tax declaration

Attending on behalf of our clients the documentary inspection

Assisting and following up all tax procedures

 (FATCA/CRS) Tax Compliance

Tax Compliance (FATCA – CRS)

The Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”) is a US reporting standard, which became effective as of July 1, 2014. It requires all foreign financial institutions (“FFIs”) residing outside the US to agree with the tax authority in the United States (known as the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), to identify and report the US accounts held or managed by them to the IRS.

Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) is an agreement between the US and a FATCA in the state of Kuwait; “IGA” compels the financial institutions in Kuwait to fulfill the requirements of FATCA.

For Common Reporting Standards “CRS”, governments around the world introduced a new information-gathering and reporting requirement or standard for financial institutions known as the Common Reporting Standard “CRS” for the exchange of tax and financial information. The Ministry of Finance in Kuwait issued Ministerial Resolution No. 36 of 2017, on 16 July 2017 with instructions on the method of implementing “CRS” in Kuwait, which requires financial institutions in Kuwait subject to CRS to perform certain due diligence to identify, document and report accounts to the Ministry.

Services offered by UHY Pillars include:

– FATCA and CRS implementation

– FATCA and CRS reporting

– FATCA and CRS account treatment

– FATCA and CRS assessments

– Drafting policies and procedures for FATCA and CRS

– FATCA and CRS assurance services

  Zakat Audit

The Ministry of Finance has issued detailed executive rules and regulations under law No. 46 of 2006, which became effective from 10 December 2007, and its subsequent amendments through Ministerial Resolution No. 58 of 2007.

The Zakat law is applicable for all Kuwaiti closed and listed shareholding companies, excluding governmental and foreign entities. It’s mandatory to register with the Ministry of Finance for Zakat taxation within (30) days from the date of incorporation. Zakat is computed at 1% of the annual net profit before the board of directors’ remunerations, contributions to the Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences, donations, grants, Zakat, and NLST.

– UHY Pillars provides consulting for Zakat tax financial declaration

 National Labor Support Tax

In accordance with Law No. 19 of 2000, which seeks to support national labor and promote employment of Kuwaiti nationals in the private sector, public shareholding companies listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) are required to pay the National Labor Support Tax. This tax, calculated at 2.5% of the company’s net annual profit, is payable to the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

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