Africa Tax Terminal is a product of Tarra Agility Africa, a boutique tax and legal advisory firm whose partners have appeared before the Tax Appeals Tribunal and the High Court of Kenya.
Tax governance in Kenya and across Africa is broken, fragmented legislation, unavailable case law, revenue authority policy inconsistent with the law. The tax information gap between finance teams and revenue authorities costs businesses millions every year.
ATT is the delivery of tax information and advice by Tarra Agility experts, supported and enabled by proprietary internal technology. Advisor first, technology enabled.
ATT is built for finance teams at multinationals and VC-backed firms whose CFO needs a defensible compliance position, not just annual returns, but a documented, case-law-backed understanding of where the risks are. Our goal is to make the traditional annual tax health check irrelevant.
Tarra Agility Africa is a Nairobi-based tax and legal advisory firm. ATT is its intelligence infrastructure product.
ATT relies exclusively on source documents with force of law: decided cases, statutes, and official KRA notices. No opinion content, no generic guidance.
Zero Data Retention on all AI API calls. AES-256 at rest. Your financial data is never used to train any model or shared with any third party.
Real decided cases from the knowledge base, each mapped to the tax head it turns on.
A KES 552M customs appeal filed one day late was null ab initio, statutory timelines are substantive law, and Article 159(2)(d) does not cure a missed deadline.
A KES 17.9M corporate-tax appeal was struck out: with no valid objection decision on record, there was no appealable decision under s.52(1) of the Tax Procedures Act, so the Tribunal had no jurisdiction.
KRA's rejection of the refund claim was invalid for want of proper reasons, though the Tribunal declined to treat the refund as approved by delay under the 2022 Tax Procedures Act.
Finance Acts, Tribunal rulings, KRA notices and court judgments bind you the day they land. There is no grace period between a new precedent and your exposure.
No in-house team can run the business and monitor a legal landscape that shifts every quarter across six tax heads.
The burden of proof sits on you under s.56(1) of the Tax Procedures Act, and penalties run from the original obligation date, not the audit date, and not the date you raise your hand. Kenya has no standing voluntary-disclosure programme of the kind UK taxpayers rely on.
The burden of proof is on you, not on KRA.
Tax Procedures Act · TAT Act s.30
Penalty on the tax avoided where a scheme is found to be tax avoidance.
Tax Procedures Act, s.85
KRA may amend without alleging fraud. Beyond five years, fraud or gross neglect must be shown.
Tax Procedures Act, s.31(4)
Late was enough to lose an entire appeal at the Tribunal.
Atta Kenya v CDT (TAT, 2025)
Bloomberg Tax, Thomson Reuters Checkpoint, Wolters Kluwer CCH, IBFD and Orbitax are the standing infrastructure of tax departments in London, New York and Frankfurt. They cover Kenya, at country-survey depth.
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