Welcome to Tax Bites for Expats, the top tax tips you
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Speaker:Hi everyone, Podcast producer Matt here stepping in for Steph as the
Speaker:tax assessment period starts to round itself off a bit.
Speaker:This episode is part two of Steph's recording with Sean Carney
Speaker:of Amboy wealth. So if you haven't listened to part one yet,
Speaker:scroll up in your feed and give it a listen. Sean is an
Speaker:expert financial planner helping Irish expats in the US to plan for their
Speaker:future and avoid the pitfalls of the tricky US tax system
Speaker:and what Irish citizens commonly ignore regarding managing US
Speaker:Finances. In part two we hear about Sean's best
Speaker:approaches to financial management. Some great tips for Irish expats
Speaker:that really brings together their discussion so far and a bit of behind
Speaker:the scenes advisory banter that you won't hear anywhere
Speaker:else. Enjoy.
Speaker:I guess my role in this. If somebody said to me, what is your role
Speaker:in this whole process? My role in this is I project
Speaker:manage, I guess, more than anything else. Yes, the financial planning piece, which is
Speaker:a huge piece because again, it goes back to the piece that I said that,
Speaker:you know, if you don't know where your destination is, then it really doesn't matter
Speaker:what route you take. So the financial planning piece is incredibly
Speaker:important, I. E. Let's decide or try and establish what
Speaker:life is going to look like for the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60
Speaker:years once we understand what that looks like. Now let's
Speaker:start layering back in the money. And as part of that money
Speaker:piece, let's talk to Steph, let's talk to estate
Speaker:planners, let's talk to specialist advisors to make sure
Speaker:that we're doing everything in the most tax efficient manner possible. And that's
Speaker:another piece. I am not one of these people and I genuinely
Speaker:don't think you are either. There are a lot of tax advisors out there and
Speaker:a lot of clients out there that want to do things in the most
Speaker:tax efficient manner possible. So give me a
Speaker:solution that allows me to pay zero tax and I'm
Speaker:happy. And again, I spoke to a tax advisor over here, a US
Speaker:guy that deals with very, very high net worth
Speaker:individuals. I asked him about that. I said, do you take into
Speaker:account a client's wishes or a client's
Speaker:Lifestyle requirements going forward or is it purely
Speaker:tax based? And his answer to me, and I loved it was he goes, you
Speaker:know, we deal with high net worth individuals, really high net worth
Speaker:individuals, but I never want the tail to be wagging the dog. I
Speaker:never want them to take the tax solution that's purely a tax
Speaker:solution. Forget about what life looks like around it because I think
Speaker:what a lot of people need to realize, and again, this is a wealth problem.
Speaker:I guess the wealthier you are, the more tax becomes a
Speaker:problem. But for these people, I think
Speaker:they need to, I guess, try and understand,
Speaker:let's live life first and let's put the tax piece around
Speaker:it because. And again, it'd be interesting
Speaker:your thoughts on this. But a lot of tax strategies are very
Speaker:similar to investment strategies and that's what they ultimately
Speaker:are. Because going into tax efficient vehicles, things
Speaker:change, the world changes, legislation changes. So just because
Speaker:you go into a tax vehicle today doesn't mean that in 10 or 15
Speaker:years, when you think that tax vehicle is going to mature, pay everything out
Speaker:tax free doesn't necessarily mean that that's the way that it's going to be in
Speaker:the future. So it's about making sure, I guess, you know, let's not try and
Speaker:be too smart, let's be smart, let's pay as little tax as we can, but
Speaker:let's live life first of all, because at the end of it, all you're going
Speaker:to end up with is a lot of money in the bank when. You'Re dead
Speaker:to give to other people. Do you know what, right when you're saying that, to
Speaker:give you my tokens worth of what you're saying. And I'll give you an example,
Speaker:right? We have a coffee machine and I love my morning coffee,
Speaker:right? It's kind of like the highlight of my day. It's like a lot of
Speaker:exciting, says a lot about how exciting my life is, doesn't it? And we had
Speaker:a conversation the other day about the price of beads, okay, so you could
Speaker:go out and you can buy coffee beans and you can get, you know, mediocre
Speaker:coffee beans. Chances are I probably wouldn't drink the coffee as often if it wasn't
Speaker:that nice. Or you can get the nice coffee beans, which, you know, think it
Speaker:works out like a euro, a cup, which is not going to break the bank
Speaker:compared to what you'd pay elsewhere. I think my point is this.
Speaker:Sometimes, you know, Ireland's a nice cup of coffee. In other words,
Speaker:it's not a cheap cup of coffee. But if it's the coffee you want, have
Speaker:it. And I often think of it like that. Like, don't deprive yourself of
Speaker:the ability to be where you want to be in the
Speaker:notional idea that, oh, I'm going to save all this money and what am I
Speaker:going to do with it? Like, exactly what you're saying is, you
Speaker:know, money is there to be used and to be spent. And I think people
Speaker:do a bit of research on the Internet and they think, oh, my goodness, this
Speaker:is going to cost us a fortune. Do you know what? It probably is going
Speaker:to cost more money. You can dress it up whatever way you want, but sometimes
Speaker:that's worth it. And having somebody help you navigate that.
Speaker:Most people are actually okay with that concept. Most people don't mind the
Speaker:concept of it's going to cost you marginally or somewhat more to
Speaker:come back to do X, Y and Z. That, to me, often is a happy
Speaker:client. The client who's told, don't ever drink coffee again. It's bad for
Speaker:you and it costs you money and you're going to be miserable, but you'll have
Speaker:loads of money in your bank account. That's not a happy client. That's just a
Speaker:client with money in the bank. They're not the same thing. Yeah. And that's the
Speaker:planning thing. That's why I park the money piece.
Speaker:If I can understand, and if I get the client to fully understand what
Speaker:it is that they want, life. And again, the line I use is, tell me
Speaker:what life looks like. If somebody else is bankrolling, let's not worry. Now you're
Speaker:assuming the clients are going to come back and say, I want a Ferrari and
Speaker:I want seven houses and I want. I want a one. I was going to
Speaker:tell you that's what I wanted. You don't offer that.
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely. Someday, please God, I'll be able to give all of my clients a
Speaker:million dollars and let them go off and live the bankroll their life, or pick
Speaker:maybe one a year. But that's the reality. If you can get somebody to understand
Speaker:that piece, you know, you can modify that and you can say, okay, this is
Speaker:what it's going to cost. One of the things that I get over here all
Speaker:the time is clients coming to me and saying, and I like this because
Speaker:it's a lot of an easier process of planning. Somebody says, I'm not going home.
Speaker:And I go, okay. Then it's back to that piece where it's the straight road,
Speaker:it's the big desert road. Financial planning, you're here today, you're going to
Speaker:die in the future in the U.S. so we're all we're planning in
Speaker:the U.S. i suppose just to be clear, being an Irish
Speaker:person permanently resident in the US is a lot easier from a
Speaker:financial planning for a tax perspective than an Irish person. That's us connect living
Speaker:in Ireland. I completely agree with that. Completely agree with that. So
Speaker:again, they're the clients that are easier for me to do
Speaker:and get them to plan out. And when you dig deep, it
Speaker:goes back and they're the same. I sit down with them and I say, well,
Speaker:what does the next 10, 15, 20 years look like? And when you start to
Speaker:dig deep into it, the reason some of these people aren't going home
Speaker:is because they don't think they can afford it. Because I'm earning great
Speaker:money over here. I go home, my salary will be
Speaker:50% my, you know, I can't afford to
Speaker:live on half the salary I have. What they're trying to
Speaker:work out, living on half the salary they have, paying $7 for a
Speaker:cup of coffee, paying six grand for a two bed low
Speaker:floor apartment in the middle of Manhattan. None of them things are what it
Speaker:costs back in Ireland. So again, what we're able to do is we're able to
Speaker:sit down and go, well, if you're telling me of what I hear and what
Speaker:you're saying is that in an ideal world you'd move back to Ireland or
Speaker:Ireland would become more of a piece of your life, well then let's look at
Speaker:what that looks like. Because people are making the assumption that they can't afford it
Speaker:without having any idea. And these are the very people that are going to die
Speaker:at age 93 and a half somewhere upstate New York, living
Speaker:in the forests with 5, 10, 15 million sitting in their bank account.
Speaker:That's what the financial planning that I do does for people. It's
Speaker:about taking that 15 million, spreading it back over your
Speaker:lifestyle. Once you get to 80, 85 years of age, and again
Speaker:this age is increasing, I call it the slowdown part of your
Speaker:life. Because once you get to a certain age you've no choice. But most
Speaker:people as well, I find, and I don't know if you find this, there is
Speaker:a pull to Ireland at that point. It never leaves them. Yeah,
Speaker:there's always this feeling of I want to go back now, I want to go
Speaker:back. Yeah, it never leaves them. There's no question. But again,
Speaker:what stops them? What stops them? Look, a lot of what stops them
Speaker:is there are Touch points over here in the States. To me,
Speaker:if your children get past halfway through high school,
Speaker:which is secondary school, you've created a huge issue for yourself if you want to
Speaker:go back to Ireland because they will probably finish school here, they will probably go
Speaker:on to college here, they will qualify out of college here, they will stay here,
Speaker:they will get boyfriends or girlfriends here, they'll have kids here. And now all of
Speaker:a sudden you have a huge dilemma. As in, if I go back to Ireland,
Speaker:my kids are here, my grandkids are potentially here. So that creates an
Speaker:issue. Again, the world is a small place. One of the things I love about
Speaker:New York, everyone has good days and bad days over here in New York.
Speaker:And for me, on a bad day, my thought frame was always, you know, it's,
Speaker:it's a six hour flight back to Dublin. If I really need to get to
Speaker:Dublin tomorrow, so long as I'm at, so
Speaker:long as I make that decision before 6:00 this evening, I can be at JFK
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00 tonight, back in Ireland tomorrow morning with the time difference.
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So it's not far away. But again, that bull over here,
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it's important that you understand that, you know, once you
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come over here, as you start to get older, if Ireland is part of that
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piece, there is a time where you probably stop yourself
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completely, allowing yourself to go back from a family perspective and
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that is probably from college age to. You're
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probably losing 10, 15, 20 years at that stage. Yes, people will then
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go back at 70, 80 years of age because it's what they
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want to do. But in my world, there is a happy medium that's there
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and it certainly takes some planning. But can we live between
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both? Can we spend X amount of time in Ireland and X amount of
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time in the U.S. expensive? Possibly. But again,
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that's something that we can look at. And it's funny. I was talking to a
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guy at a network the other day and that's exactly what he does.
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And he said, I said to him, when do you usually go back? And he
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said, I usually go back from the start of December to the end of
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February. I started laughing. I said, what in all this good and holy
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would bring you back to Ireland to what people would consider the worst time
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of year in Ireland? He said, well, first of all, it's Christmas and everyone's home
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at Christmas. And he said, second of all, I know it's going to be
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damp and cold, potentially snowy in January and
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February, but I live upstate New York. It's not great up there in
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January and February either. So that's his piece. So all these
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things are possible for people, but it takes planning and particularly
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that piece, you know, where are you tax resident? What we don't definitely want to
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do is we don't want to get called tax resident. In both places, there is
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a tax, the double tax agreement. But that's what we talk about. The
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planning piece. It's about understanding what we can do and then
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how we can do it. There's the other thing as well, and I mentioned this
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because I think there'll be people listening who are interested
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in this. We routinely get asked by
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some of our U.S. clients. And I said by U.S. clients, I
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mean the spouse, let's say the U.S. citizen with no previous Irish
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connection. And, you know, we will have a conversation with them and we'll determine
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through a discussion that they have an Irish
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domicile and they're coming back to Ireland. And they often have quite
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a specific fact pattern and a specific
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desire to invest in a certain way. Right. So without kind of
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boring people with the detail, I think my summary and
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takeaway for anybody listening to the podcast would be that Sean is
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the person to talk to if you're in that situation. And we've worked with many
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of them because I suppose as much as we're talking and focusing
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on, well, what happens to my US Position, there are
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considerations from a tax perspective for that client when they come to Ireland as to
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how the money should be invested through the lens of the US Authorities
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to the lends of the revenue commissioners, completely legitimately on both sides of
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the water, but with a nice low Irish tax bill. So if
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you're in that category, reach out to Sean, because he's one of the very few
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people who is licensed to be able to advise U.S. citizens
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in Ireland on Irish and U.S.
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financial issues. You're in a special space. Thank you very much
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for agreeing to talk to us. Yeah, no,
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that is key. You know, it's. It's there and
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it's possible for everyone. Again, it goes back to that piece
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where people don't seem to want to go and get advice
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for these things. They want to, I won't even say bury their head in the
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sand, but they just do what they do. And a very
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simple piece out there, particularly for us connected
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individuals, is, if you are resident in Ireland
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or resident in the US and your money is sitting in one of the life
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companies, you need to get advice about that. And what's a
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life company? What would you describe? You don't need to name them. You don't need
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to name them per se. But for anyone who's not sure what. You mean by
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that, the big insurance companies, again, the banks. If you have
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money invested through pretty much 90%
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of the financial advisors or financial institutions in Ireland, it's
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probably invested in the wrong place now. Wrong place. From a tax
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perspective, it's wrong because it's not as tax efficient. Irish
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advisors tend not to understand this. I struggle with it
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because it's not black and white. That's why you need to take on this
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whole. I guess it goes back to that project management piece where I can
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bring in the taxes specialist, I can bring in the investment
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specialist. These are the people that we need to sit down and get the right
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advice for. And obviously the more money you have, the more of an issue this
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becomes. Because the simple reason that you know you're
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going to pay more tax on more money, there's some things you can't avoid. If
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you're a US connected individual living in Ireland, you're paying into a company pension
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that's going to sit, 99% of them are going to sit in life companies. There's
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very little you can do because your company controls that. But again,
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that needs to form part of your annual tax return. So
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again, for me, that's a piece where we need to
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get proper advice in order to make sure that it's
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been invested in the most tax efficient manner or that we
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understand why it's not been invested in the most tax efficient manner.
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Yeah, and the thing is, people want that assurance, don't they? Like
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everybody wants to know that things have been done properly, tax
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efficiently and compliant.
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Essentially, yeah. And back to a point that you made
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earlier, the irs, but the US
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Government already know if a US connected individual
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has a financial account in Ireland because the onus is on the financial
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institutions to report back to the US So if you go
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in and you open something as simple as a bank account, one of the questions
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that's on it is, are you a green card holder or
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a U.S. passport holder? You have two choices at that point. You can either be
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honest if you are and say yes, or you can be dishonest,
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potentially commit fraud and say no, you're not. Now, it doesn't have a huge
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impact on the opening of the account, but from that perspective, the
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financial institution will report to the US that
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you have that account. So they already have this information that you have bank
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accounts, that you have investment accounts, that you have pensions, that any of these
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things that you have that information is sitting somewhere in the US
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Is it getting used at the moment? Potentially not.
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But it goes back to that piece, I guess that we're all getting more and
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more of akin to. And that is AI
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Big Data. The ability for AI to go in and
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manipulate or extrapolate facts from
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information is increasing daily. Just I was
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at an investment conference a couple of weeks ago and a
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bond speaker stood up and he said that one of the things he said
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was for the past 30 years we have been getting
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information, all the information on every mortgage that is taken
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out daily in the US So they have all the information on
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all the mortgages going back over 30 or 50 years now.
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He said that is so much information, there's very little that we could do with
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it. Again, the needle in the haystack piece he says, but now
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AI allows us to go into that whole database of
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50 year mortgages and extrapolate exactly what information
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that we need to be able to say, okay, here is
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now I think it's mortgage backed investment products that they create out of
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this. But again, you know, the ability is there.
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And again, who knows when that was starting to happen. And I'm not
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sitting here and telling people to not sleep at night. If you're
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not sleeping at night because you're worried that the IRS are going to come and
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knock on your door, then reach out to staff or reach out to me and
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let's alleviate that issue. And as well as that, I sometimes
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do consults with clients and they'll say, I've been so worried about this.
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You know, I've been up at night. It's rarely as bad as people think it's
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going to be when they actually are proactive about it. So I think that's, you
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know, anyone listening to this thinking, oh, what should I do? This all sounds
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too hard. Just do this one simple thing. Open your
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computer, go into your email and send an email to either Info at
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Expat Taxes, that is, or your. Email address is
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Info at Envoy Wealth. Brilliant. And if
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you send those emails it. Does it look, the reality
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is is you know, the onus is on you from a legal perspective as a
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US connected individual to do a US tax return on an annual
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basis. And if you have never done it, it's an issue, but it's not a
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big issue and there are ways. There's a streamlined process there that
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allows you to become compliant. It costs money, not
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massive money. It can be done and brings you right up to
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date. It's not about, oh, I'm 50 years of age. I haven't done a tax
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return since I came back from the US 1979. I don't
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think them numbers work out, but it'll only go back a number of years.
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You get the information in and then you are fully compliant and fully up to
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date. And compliance is all the US Want. In general, what the US want
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is they just want to understand and know what their
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citizens are doing around the world. The treaty means that
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Ireland is a higher tax country than the US
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across the board. So the likelihood of you paying more
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tax when you're doing this tax return is very slim. From a US Perspective,
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it's very. It's very slim. And again, that's why, you know, if
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you're leaving the us close things down over there, pay your taxes over there because
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it becomes, you know, it saves you money in the long run. Definitely from a
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state perspective as well. Take advice on breaking your state residency position if
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possible. Yeah, yeah. Look, we could talk all
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day. Like it's. It's one of those things. I've got all day. It's only
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18 for me in the morning. Four on a
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Friday evening here, so 21st three, actually, I'm an hour ahead.
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Sean, thank you so much. I. We will put
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details in the show notes of your email, which is info
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wealth people, if they contact you, should
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mention the podcast maybe in the subject line if they
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want to arrange a free call. Thank you very much for offering that to our
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listeners. And there is numerous ways to work with you. The first step is to
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reach out and of course, if they want to have a call, both from a
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financial and a tax perspective, we can organize that. And ideally
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and possibly with the US advisor on the call as well, so we can cover
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off on us Irish tax issues in conjunction with yourself.
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I think that's a really solid value proposition for anybody who's listened to this
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and is a bit worried. And of course there's plenty of info on your website
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and our website as well. If people just want to DIY it, which we don't
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recommend, but there is people who do that. Yeah, look, that. It goes back to
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the piece that. And again, I've seen it and you've seen it,
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where people have come and taken the initial advice that they've got
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and believe that they could go off and save money on their own and do
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it on their own, you'll generally find that they've created a mini mess and they'll
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come back to you and it'll actually cost them more than if they'd come the
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first time. So look, I go back to my point of earlier. There are very
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few people that know what they're doing. 90% of US
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tax advisors, 90% of Irish tax advisors do not understand the cross
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border nature of what needs to be done.
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What Stephanie has been able to create, I guess from a
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tax perspective for my clients, and I assume her own clients,
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is she has been able to find
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advisors, U.S. tax advisors, that understand the
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connection between the two. And that's the key to it. You can go to the
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best US Tax advisor there is out there and get them to do
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your taxes. If he does not understand how the treaty works or
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what the issues are that he needs to look at from an Irish
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perspective, it's a waste of time. As is
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also the top US Tax advisor and the top Irish
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tax advisor if they don't, if they work together but don't
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understand the mechanics of the treaty. It's exactly
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the same thing. Yeah, I've been doing this for four years. A lot of my
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four years has gone about trying to find the right
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people because I don't want to work with the wrong people. I can
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absolutely say that Stephanie is without question the best person that
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I've met in this area. Thank you.
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You're very kind. Absolutely. It's a fact and I think that's
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important. And I think that's borne out by the fact that I do trust you.
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It has changed my practice by working with you. You're very good.
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Thank you. And absolutely I would recommend, you know, for me,
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likewise.
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Now it's like we're becoming, we're not Irish anymore. Irish people don't
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do this. That's the Americanism coming out. It's a pity
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we're not on Instagram now. We can get people to comment what they think of
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us below. But no, it's, you know, for
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me, I do care about people. I do care about clients. For
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me, get advice, get it somewhere. I don't care whether it's me because
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the reality is, and I think, Steph, you're probably the same, I have enough clients.
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There's more than enough clients out there. I will never be able to service everyone
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that needs this service. And I don't think you will be there. From a time
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perspective, I don't think there is a huge option out there at the minute. I
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would love to see more advisors in this area. As I said,
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you know, I had no root map to follow.
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If anyone wants to ring me up and ask, how do you get into the
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US I'm not going to tell you because you can go through four years the
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hell that I went through. That's true. Absolutely. That said, everyone has
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a price. But yeah, no, absolutely. Go out there and get
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advice. You know, contact me, contact Steph. We do work closely
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together from that perspective and we will certainly
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look after you. Thank you so much. It's a great start to the weekend
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to have recorded the podcast. You're starting your day. I hope you go off and
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buy yourself a $7 coffee. I'm going to go and make myself one of my
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one Euro cups that I. Your one Euro
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cup probably tastes a lot better than mine.
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Well, I did see what you were drinking there, the cup, and I can tell
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you it tastes better than what you're drinking. But I'm a bit of a. No
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idea what's in that cup. That's actually green tea. That's a Venti. You couldn't,
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you couldn't possibly afford a Venti coffee over here. No chance. You've changed.
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You've changed, Sean. You can't. If you tell anyone in Castle knock, you drink green
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tea. They always drank green tea because I
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couldn't afford milk. It's a lot easier, better free. It's no more than you. Your
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one euro coffee. It's. It's free world. So it's. It's
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okay. I'm going to go put my coffee machine on. Have a brilliant weekend.
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You too. Take care. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye
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