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Item 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
The following table summarizes the aggregate fees for professional services provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited or their respective affiliates (collectively, the "Deloitte Entities") for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015.
| For the Year Ended December 31, 2016 | ||||||||
| KKR | Completed Transactions | |||||||
| (in thousands) | ||||||||
| Audit Fees | $ | 22,068 | (a) | $ | — | |||
| Audit-Related Fees | $ | 6,854 | (b) | $ | 6,769 | (d) | ||
| Tax Fees | $ | 30,804 | (c) | $ | 5,478 | (d) | ||
| All Other Fees | $ | — | $ | — |
| For the Year Ended December 31, 2015 | |||||||||
| KKR | Completed Transactions | ||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||
| Audit Fees | $ | 20,241 | (a) | $ | — | ||||
| Audit-Related Fees | $ | 7,157 | (b) | $ | 6,102 | (d) | |||
| Tax Fees | $ | 28,988 | (c) | $ | 4,619 | (d) | |||
| All Other Fees | $ | — | $ | — | |||||
| (a) | Audit Fees consisted of estimated fees for each audit year for (1) the audits of our consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and services related to, or required by, statute or regulation; (2) reviews of the interim condensed consolidated financial statements included in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q; and (3) comfort letters, consents and other services related to SEC and other regulatory filings. Estimate to actual adjustments for settlements of audit fees are reflected in the year audit fees are settled. | |||
| (b) | Audit-Related Fees primarily included merger, acquisition, and investment due diligence services for strategic acquisitions or investments in target companies for in-process transactions and transactions not completed. | |||
| (c) | Tax Fees consisted of fees for services rendered for tax compliance, planning and advisory services as well as tax fees for merger, acquisition, and investment due diligence services for strategic acquisitions or investments in target companies for in-process transactions and transactions not completed. | |||
| (d) | Audit-Related and Tax Fees included merger, acquisition, and investment due diligence services for strategic acquisitions or investments in portfolio companies that have been completed. In addition, the Deloitte Entities provided audit, audit-related, tax and other services to the portfolio companies, which are approved directly by the portfolio company's management and are not included in the amounts presented here. | |||
Our audit committee charter, which is available on our website at www.kkr.com under "Investor Center—Unitholder (KKR & Co. L.P.)—Corporate Governance—Audit", requires the audit committee to approve in advance all audit and non-audit related services to be provided by our independent registered public accounting firm in accordance with the audit and non-audit related services pre-approval policy. All services reported in the Audit, Audit-Related, Tax, and All Other categories above were approved by the audit committee.
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