About
A Mauritian tax practice led by its founder
Mosafeer Tax Consulting is a tax practice in Port Louis, Mauritius. It advises Global Business Companies and the management companies that administer them, corporate boards that need substance in Mauritius, high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, and multinational groups investing in Mauritius.
The firm
What we do
The work covers four services. Mustupha Mosafeer sits on client boards as a Non-Executive Director. The firm advises on Mauritian and international tax, from structuring to disputes with the Mauritius Revenue Authority. It prepares and files Mauritian tax returns. And it trains finance, tax and compliance teams on BEPS, FATCA and the exchange of information.
- 1966
- Joined the Mauritius Income Tax Department
- 2000–2006
- Commissioner of Income Tax
- 2006–2013
- Director, Large Taxpayers Department, Mauritius Revenue Authority
- Since 2013
- Technical Advisor to the Mauritius Revenue Authority
Founder and Managing Director
Mustupha Mosafeer, FCCA
Mustupha Mosafeer began his career in 1966 at the Mauritius Income Tax Department. He was Commissioner of Income Tax from 2000 to 2006, years of reform and modernisation in the tax administration. When the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) was formed, he became Director of its Large Taxpayers Department, a post he held from 2006 to 2013, working on tax policy and administration for the largest contributors to the country’s tax revenue. He has been a Technical Advisor to the MRA since 2013.
He has led more than 60 negotiations of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) and Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs) for Mauritius over two decades. He has represented Mauritius in OECD projects, including the drafting of the OECD Model TIEA, and was appointed a Global Forum assessor for the peer reviews of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Liechtenstein and Mauritania.
He took part in Mauritius’s adoption of FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), drafting the implementing legislation and supervising the guidance notes. In recent years he has analysed the effect of the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project on the Mauritian tax system.
He is the author of An Insight into Mauritius Tax Conventions and of Income Tax in Mauritius, published in 2024.
He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and holds a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS) d’Administration Fiscale, equivalent to a master’s degree, from the University of Paris Dauphine.
Other work
- As Tax Advisor at the Financial Services Commission, he took part in drafting the legislation that implemented the BEPS measures in Mauritius.
- He was involved in Mauritius signing the Early Adopters Commitment to the automatic exchange of information and the OECD Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.
- In 2018 he was contracted to draft a multilateral Tax Information Exchange Agreement for the East African Community, with an executive summary and explanatory notes, and presented the draft to EAC delegates in Nairobi.
- For the Global Forum Secretariat he has presented Mauritius’s experience of exchange of information to competent authorities in Madrid, the UAE and Cameroon.
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