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THE STANDARD By
Wainaina Wambu |
April 7th 2021 at 06:16:45 GMT +0300
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Healthcare provider AAR Health Care Ltd has begun winding up its Tanzania business operations, citing financial difficulties.
In a memo to staff, AAR Health Care Ltd Acting Chief Executive Officer Andrew Rowell said the firm had been facing financial difficulties “for some time” now, worsened by the failure of the national health insurance model in Tanzania, the pandemic and a decline in traffic to their clinics.
“The company’s parent firm, AAR Health Care Ltd as a major creditor to the company, is no longer willing to support the financial requirements of the company and it is on this basis that the board has resolved to initiate a creditor’s voluntary winding-up process,” he said.
AAR to shut Dar clinics on rising financial woes
Wednesday April 07 2021
By LYNET IGADWAH
Summary
Insurance firm AAR plans to exit Tanzania on reduced visitor numbers to its eight clinics and financial troubles worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The insurer announced in a memo to staff, it has started the winding up process since it can no longer meet its obligations to employees and creditors in a timely manner.
Insurance firm AAR plans to exit Tanzania on reduced visitor numbers to its eight clinics and financial troubles worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The insurer announced in a memo to staff, it has started the winding up process since it can no longer meet its obligations to employees and creditors in a timely manner.
January 19, 2021
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On January 12, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service and Department of the Treasury released final regulations regarding the ability of taxpayers to deduct certain payments made to or at the direction of governments under Section 162(f) of the Internal Revenue Code.
1 Section 162(f) generally prohibits the deduction of amounts paid to governments, agencies and certain nongovernmental entities in relation to the violation of any law or the investigation into the potential violation of any law.
The final regulations largely follow the proposed regulations published in May 2020, with some important distinctions. For example, the final regulations address several taxpayer concerns raised by the proposed regulations, including reversing the bright-line rule denying deductions for disgorgements and forfeitures. Likewise, they modestly relax the rules regarding how the parties must identify the purpose for the payment in the operative documents. They also provi