Steph Wickham

Thank you so much for having delighted to have you here.

So tax, Irish tax is our main focus.

I suppose in terms of the tax heads that we would regularly advise people on, you're looking at the common tax heads like income tax, capital gains, and then obviously capital acquisitions tax, so inheritance and gift tax.

We'd have a lot of clients who have questions about, you know, how am I going to be taxed when I come back to Ireland?

Can I transfer money from abroad to Ireland?

You know, what do I need to do in advance of my return to be compliant in Ireland and perhaps in another jurisdiction?

So our job really is to kind of take

what is essentially complex tax legislation, both from an Irish and an international perspective, and simplify it and apply it for the client so that they can form a plan and get clarity on how they're going to have to pay taxes once they come back to Ireland.

Exactly.

So we would have, I probably say we have three categories of client.

We've got somebody who's planning to come or recently arrived.

We've got someone who's planning to leave or recently departed.

And then the third category would be somebody who has ongoing tax filing obligations with an international slant.

So that could look like somebody who maybe moved three to four years ago from abroad to Ireland.

And their tax return in Ireland is not straightforward.

It's complicated by the fact that they have foreign income or foreign gains.

And maybe there have a big life event coming up like an inheritance or the sale of a foreign asset.

And they need somebody to guide them through it so that they can navigate it.

So broadly, we would work with those three cohorts.

But the common thread is always that there is an international element to their profile.