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Welcome to Tax Bites for Expats, the top tax tips you

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want to know as an expat. The podcast is here to help answer

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the common queries and concerns expats have when moving to or

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from Ireland. Complex taxes explained simply.

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We'll focus on the Irish and international tax issues to be aware

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of to ensure you save time, money and stress.

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Hi everyone, Podcast producer Matt here stepping in for Steph as the

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tax assessment period starts to round itself off a bit.

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This episode is part two of Steph's recording with Sean Carney

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of Amboy wealth. So if you haven't listened to part one yet,

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scroll up in your feed and give it a listen. Sean is an

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expert financial planner helping Irish expats in the US to plan for their

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future and avoid the pitfalls of the tricky US tax system

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and what Irish citizens commonly ignore regarding managing US

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Finances. In part two we hear about Sean's best

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approaches to financial management. Some great tips for Irish expats

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that really brings together their discussion so far and a bit of behind

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the scenes advisory banter that you won't hear anywhere

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else. Enjoy.

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I guess my role in this. If somebody said to me, what is your role

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in this whole process? My role in this is I project

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manage, I guess, more than anything else. Yes, the financial planning piece, which is

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a huge piece because again, it goes back to the piece that I said that,

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you know, if you don't know where your destination is, then it really doesn't matter

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what route you take. So the financial planning piece is incredibly

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important, I. E. Let's decide or try and establish what

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life is going to look like for the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60

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years once we understand what that looks like. Now let's

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start layering back in the money. And as part of that money

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piece, let's talk to Steph, let's talk to estate

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planners, let's talk to specialist advisors to make sure

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that we're doing everything in the most tax efficient manner possible. And that's

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another piece. I am not one of these people and I genuinely

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don't think you are either. There are a lot of tax advisors out there and

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a lot of clients out there that want to do things in the most

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tax efficient manner possible. So give me a

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solution that allows me to pay zero tax and I'm

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happy. And again, I spoke to a tax advisor over here, a US

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guy that deals with very, very high net worth

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individuals. I asked him about that. I said, do you take into

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account a client's wishes or a client's

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Lifestyle requirements going forward or is it purely

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tax based? And his answer to me, and I loved it was he goes, you

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know, we deal with high net worth individuals, really high net worth

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individuals, but I never want the tail to be wagging the dog. I

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never want them to take the tax solution that's purely a tax

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solution. Forget about what life looks like around it because I think

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what a lot of people need to realize, and again, this is a wealth problem.

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I guess the wealthier you are, the more tax becomes a

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problem. But for these people, I think

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they need to, I guess, try and understand,

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let's live life first and let's put the tax piece around

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it because. And again, it'd be interesting

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your thoughts on this. But a lot of tax strategies are very

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similar to investment strategies and that's what they ultimately

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are. Because going into tax efficient vehicles, things

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change, the world changes, legislation changes. So just because

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you go into a tax vehicle today doesn't mean that in 10 or 15

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years, when you think that tax vehicle is going to mature, pay everything out

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tax free doesn't necessarily mean that that's the way that it's going to be in

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the future. So it's about making sure, I guess, you know, let's not try and

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be too smart, let's be smart, let's pay as little tax as we can, but

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let's live life first of all, because at the end of it, all you're going

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to end up with is a lot of money in the bank when. You'Re dead

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to give to other people. Do you know what, right when you're saying that, to

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give you my tokens worth of what you're saying. And I'll give you an example,

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right? We have a coffee machine and I love my morning coffee,

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right? It's kind of like the highlight of my day. It's like a lot of

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exciting, says a lot about how exciting my life is, doesn't it? And we had

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a conversation the other day about the price of beads, okay, so you could

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go out and you can buy coffee beans and you can get, you know, mediocre

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coffee beans. Chances are I probably wouldn't drink the coffee as often if it wasn't

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that nice. Or you can get the nice coffee beans, which, you know, think it

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works out like a euro, a cup, which is not going to break the bank

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compared to what you'd pay elsewhere. I think my point is this.

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Sometimes, you know, Ireland's a nice cup of coffee. In other words,

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it's not a cheap cup of coffee. But if it's the coffee you want, have

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it. And I often think of it like that. Like, don't deprive yourself of

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the ability to be where you want to be in the

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notional idea that, oh, I'm going to save all this money and what am I

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going to do with it? Like, exactly what you're saying is, you

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know, money is there to be used and to be spent. And I think people

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do a bit of research on the Internet and they think, oh, my goodness, this

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is going to cost us a fortune. Do you know what? It probably is going

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to cost more money. You can dress it up whatever way you want, but sometimes

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that's worth it. And having somebody help you navigate that.

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Most people are actually okay with that concept. Most people don't mind the

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concept of it's going to cost you marginally or somewhat more to

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come back to do X, Y and Z. That, to me, often is a happy

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client. The client who's told, don't ever drink coffee again. It's bad for

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you and it costs you money and you're going to be miserable, but you'll have

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loads of money in your bank account. That's not a happy client. That's just a

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client with money in the bank. They're not the same thing. Yeah. And that's the

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planning thing. That's why I park the money piece.

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If I can understand, and if I get the client to fully understand what

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it is that they want, life. And again, the line I use is, tell me

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what life looks like. If somebody else is bankrolling, let's not worry. Now you're

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assuming the clients are going to come back and say, I want a Ferrari and

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I want seven houses and I want. I want a one. I was going to

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tell you that's what I wanted. You don't offer that.

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Yeah, absolutely. Someday, please God, I'll be able to give all of my clients a

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million dollars and let them go off and live the bankroll their life, or pick

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maybe one a year. But that's the reality. If you can get somebody to understand

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that piece, you know, you can modify that and you can say, okay, this is

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what it's going to cost. One of the things that I get over here all

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the time is clients coming to me and saying, and I like this because

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it's a lot of an easier process of planning. Somebody says, I'm not going home.

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And I go, okay. Then it's back to that piece where it's the straight road,

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it's the big desert road. Financial planning, you're here today, you're going to

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die in the future in the U.S. so we're all we're planning in

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the U.S. i suppose just to be clear, being an Irish

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person permanently resident in the US is a lot easier from a

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financial planning for a tax perspective than an Irish person. That's us connect living

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in Ireland. I completely agree with that. Completely agree with that. So

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again, they're the clients that are easier for me to do

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and get them to plan out. And when you dig deep, it

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goes back and they're the same. I sit down with them and I say, well,

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what does the next 10, 15, 20 years look like? And when you start to

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dig deep into it, the reason some of these people aren't going home

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is because they don't think they can afford it. Because I'm earning great

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money over here. I go home, my salary will be

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50% my, you know, I can't afford to

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live on half the salary I have. What they're trying to

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work out, living on half the salary they have, paying $7 for a

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cup of coffee, paying six grand for a two bed low

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floor apartment in the middle of Manhattan. None of them things are what it

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costs back in Ireland. So again, what we're able to do is we're able to

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sit down and go, well, if you're telling me of what I hear and what

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you're saying is that in an ideal world you'd move back to Ireland or

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Ireland would become more of a piece of your life, well then let's look at

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what that looks like. Because people are making the assumption that they can't afford it

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without having any idea. And these are the very people that are going to die

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at age 93 and a half somewhere upstate New York, living

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in the forests with 5, 10, 15 million sitting in their bank account.

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That's what the financial planning that I do does for people. It's

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about taking that 15 million, spreading it back over your

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lifestyle. Once you get to 80, 85 years of age, and again

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this age is increasing, I call it the slowdown part of your

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life. Because once you get to a certain age you've no choice. But most

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people as well, I find, and I don't know if you find this, there is

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a pull to Ireland at that point. It never leaves them. Yeah,

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there's always this feeling of I want to go back now, I want to go

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back. Yeah, it never leaves them. There's no question. But again,

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what stops them? What stops them? Look, a lot of what stops them

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is there are Touch points over here in the States. To me,

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if your children get past halfway through high school,

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which is secondary school, you've created a huge issue for yourself if you want to

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go back to Ireland because they will probably finish school here, they will probably go

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on to college here, they will qualify out of college here, they will stay here,

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they will get boyfriends or girlfriends here, they'll have kids here. And now all of

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a sudden you have a huge dilemma. As in, if I go back to Ireland,

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my kids are here, my grandkids are potentially here. So that creates an

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issue. Again, the world is a small place. One of the things I love about

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New York, everyone has good days and bad days over here in New York.

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And for me, on a bad day, my thought frame was always, you know, it's,

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it's a six hour flight back to Dublin. If I really need to get to

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Dublin tomorrow, so long as I'm at, so

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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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