For us, no conversation about working in Australia is complete without the mention of superannuation refunds. It never fails to surprise us how many people are unaware of the potential goldmine that they could be sitting on. When we ask people who have worked in...

A long long time ago, 1582 to be exact, Pope Gregory Xiii grew tired of the inaccuracies in the existing ‘Julian’ calendar and ordered the calendar to be changed. The Julian calendar named after the late debatably great Julius Cesar had been in place since...

Sportspeople, by definition, are an exceptional bunch of people and they lead different lives to most people in the tax system. The sorts of income they get and the expenses they incur may be different from other taxpayers.  The amount of tax that a sportsperson...

British taxpayers are handing over £12.6bn a year more in tax to HMRC than they need to, according to new research. This translates into £421 being wasted per individual taxpayer. Over the past ten years, taxpayers have collectively overpaid by a phenomenal £88.6bn. The biggest...

Yesterday’s UK Budget was something of a damp squib with little apart from the rise in the tax-free personal allowance to shout about. Our UK tax gurus have put together the analysis below. Don’t forget the best way to counteract a stringent Budget is to...

If you’re in Ireland at the moment, unless you’re living under a rock, you cannot fail to have noticed that St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon us. This is the time of the year when it’s trendy to be Irish and everything is awash with...

The Connect Ireland initiative was launched today in Dublin. We’re very proud of it as it’s the brainchild of our CEO, Terry Clune. The initiative is part of the Government’s 2012 Action Plan for jobs and was unveiled by Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Customs...