Excise policy and administration
Legislative drafting, regulations, licensing regimes, compliance frameworks and the digitisation of excise processes for revenue authorities and ministries of finance.
Pan-African policy advisory
Excise and health tax systems that work in practice, not just on paper.
We help governments, regional blocs and development partners design, legislate and run excise administration, health taxes and tobacco control measures across Africa.
Close to two decadesof experience at Kenya Revenue Authority
40+ countrieshosted for training and technical exchange on Kenya’s excise system
Since 2013providing technical assistance to WHO
Who we work with
NationalgovernmentsRegional economic
blocsDevelopment
partnersProfessional
advisers
What we do
From policy drafting to the enforcement desk.
Our advice comes from having run these systems: drafting excise provisions, licensing, digitising returns, rolling out track and trace and building enforcement. We work across the full life of an excise law.
Health tax policy
Design and reform of taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages that protect public health while remaining practical to administer and collect.
Tobacco control and illicit trade
Track and trace systems, excise stamp regulations, vendor licensing and support for implementing the WHO FCTC and the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.
Training and capacity building
Practitioner courses and peer exchanges for tax administrators, policymakers and professional advisers who need to understand how excise works on the ground.
Selected experience
Work that has shaped systems across the region.
Kenya
Excisable Goods Management System
Led the national track and trace rollout, from project management through to heading EGMS operations after project closure.
Kenya
Readiness for Protocol ratification
Supported Kenya’s readiness to ratify the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products by preparing documentation for Cabinet and Parliament and briefing the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the Principal Secretary at the National Treasury.
ECOWAS
Regional track and trace directive
Multi-country technical work under WHO AFRO supporting a regional directive on tracking and tracing tobacco products.
Sierra Leone
Excise stamp regulations
Technical support through the WHO FCTC Secretariat on the development of excise stamp regulations.
Insights
A practitioner’s perspective. Twice a week.
Writing on health taxes, excise and the wider tax questions shaping policy and practice.
The first articles are coming soon. Explore our Monday series and Thursday topical perspectives here.
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About us
Founded by a practitioner, for practitioners.
Foresight Advisory Africa was founded in 2022 by CPA Karambu Muthaura, who spent close to two decades at the Kenya Revenue Authority. Her work there spanned the policy team and budget committee, excise licensing, the digitisation of excise on iTax, the EGMS rollout and the establishment of an enforcement division.
During those years Kenya’s excise system became a regional and global reference point, and she led training and technical exchange for delegations from over 40 countries. She serves on the UN Subcommittee on Health Taxes and has supported WHO since 2013, first from inside government and now through FAA.
Our team
People who have sat on both sides of the desk.
Our work draws on experience from inside revenue administration and from inside the companies that answer to it.
Karambu Muthaura, CPA
Founder & Lead Consultant
info@foresightadvisoryafrica.comClose to two decades at the Kenya Revenue Authority, spanning excise policy and licensing, the digitisation of excise on iTax, the EGMS track and trace rollout and the establishment of an enforcement division. She serves on the UN Subcommittee on Health Taxes and has supported WHO since 2013.
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Bernard Kariuki Ngondo
Consultant, Tax & Training
info@foresightadvisoryafrica.comMore than twenty years in finance and tax leadership across the public and private sectors. His experience as Finance Director at Kenya Wine Agencies Limited spans expansion, commercial financing, tax, governance and audit. He brings the manufacturer’s perspective to excise and leads the development and delivery of our practitioner training.
Contact
Planning a reform, tender or rollout? Let’s talk.
Tell us about your context and timelines.
info@foresightadvisoryafrica.comNairobi, Kenya