Multi-Professional Consultants to hold conference on Taxation and US immigration System

AjabuAfrica.com
By Eva Mukasa Nabawanuka,

WALTHAM, Mass. OCTOBER 17- A Finance and taxation consultancy firm, Multi-Professional Consultants LLC (MPC) is organizing a big conference next month to educate the African community on taxation issues, rights and benefits.

 The conference to be held at the French Club in Waltham, Massachusetts on November 28th 2009 is expected to attract hundreds of participants.

The conference comes at a time when a good number of immigrants are facing problems when it comes to issues of taxation. Many are asking themselves why they pay the kind of taxes they pay and to know their rights and entitlements as immigrants in the USA.

Speaking to one of the proprietors of Multi-Professional Consultants at their office at Crescent Street in Waltham, Dr Michael Kisembo said they have a big number of Africans who are not aware of their fiscal obligation as immigrants in the United States.

Kisembo said that, "We always hold annual conferences to educate our people and the last one was held in November 2007. We did not have one last year because of budgetary constraints.”

Dr. Michael Kisembo of Multi-professional at his office on Crescent Street in Waltham

MPC is registered in the United States of America with its head office in the state of Massachusetts. It is engaged in Financial, Taxation, Debt Consolidation, Business and Project planning, Education, Training, and Insurance.

The consultancy is also certified and approved by the Internal Revenue Service as an Electronic Return Originator (ERO) electronically filing taxes in all 50 states.

It offers to its clientele an effective and efficient performance at every point of contact in tax education, planning, preparation, both electronic and paper filing for individuals and businesses.

"In this seminar, we shall focus on educating the immigrant community, who includes mainly those from the African continent. We shall also talk about managing a successful business among other issues," Kisembo said.

The tax expert emphasized that the seminar will discuss rights and responsibilities / obligations of a tax payer under the Tax system in the USA. "It’s your obligation to share the burden of running the state in proportion to one's financial ability," he said.

He also explained that one's immigration status has nothing to do with his/her responsibility pay taxes on income earned in USA.

“If you do not pay tax you are committing two civil wrongs".

 Multi-Professional Consultants help qualified people get Tax Identification Numbers (TIN) for tax purposes through the Internal Revenue service (IRS) if one does not have a social security number. This conference will educate the community on how to apply for a TIN.

Another MPC co-director Mr.Festo Lugolobi told AjabuAfrica.com that apart from training the community about taxation issues in the US system, they will also educate participants on investment opportunities and introduce them to legal experts.

Festo Lugolobi of Multi-professional at his office on Crescent Street in Waltham

“We will also discuss employment opportunities and cultural issues, something that remains valuable to us. We believe in culture and if we do not, we shall vanish.

He criticized some parents who take their Green card holder children, with degrees to Nursing homes when they can do very well in other prospective and marketable fields.

He cited fields like alternative energy. He expressed concern that children have not been properly guided in as far as career development is concerned.

“When you are a permanent resident, there are settlement benefits you are entitled to like education grants. We want to make sure our community get the best services because they are hard working and educated people," he quipped.

"We should not allow children who come here to do nursing only. They can do other courses that are highly competitive at a world class level of people working here,” he advised.

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