When tax time rolls around, it’s important to remember that the long arm of the IRS reaches all the way to Africa. In this guest post, Samuel Guinen and the Ellsworth Law Group walk us through some tax implications of African investments.

Tax time may seem like a long way off for those of us living in the USA, but two readers reminded me this week that we should never forget about the tax man – even in these early days of summer.

Let’s take a look at the withholding tax levied on dividends by various African countries.