Moving to Ireland, departing, or balancing life across borders? Don't leave your global finances to chance. We help you align and protect your earnings, business interests, assets, investments and pensions so you move forward with absolute clarity and zero tax friction.
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Over the years, you’ve built a complex financial life: multi-currency earnings, share awards, foreign property, company interests, or pensions. You may also hold trusts or investments that enjoy favorable tax treatment in your current country. Moving across borders - whether arriving in Ireland, departing, or splitting your time - fundamentally changes how those assets are taxed. We help you map out the strategy and timing so you protect what you’ve built, retain existing tax breaks, and avoid unexpected double taxation.
The months before you arrive are more important than the months afterwards.
Before you become resident, there are crucial adjustments you can make to your affairs. You can shield existing wealth from Irish capital gains tax, insulate foreign capital from future income tax, and protect your estate. Once you become Irish tax resident, many of these opportunities are lost forever.
Multi-currency salaries, stock options (RSUs), foreign directorships, and consultancy income face severe double-taxation traps if not structured correctly.
We ensure your active earning power and equity awards are tax-efficient from day one. We help you plan to access favourable tax treatments available to expats such as the remittance basis.
Tax-favored status in your current country rarely transfers cleanly to Ireland.
Relocating to Ireland can bring income from foreign private shareholdings, stocks and shares, IRAs, 401(k)s and property within the charge to Irish tax.
There is no 'one rule' for these and each asset class must be considered separately. We offer a streamlined service to achieve this.
Leaving Ireland is not simply the opposite of arriving.
We consider when Irish residence ends, what Ireland can continue to tax after departure and how the applicable Double Taxation Agreement affects the result.
Ireland can continue taxing your global earnings post-exit, or leave you exposed to duplicate tax claims from two countries at once
It is entirely possible for two countries to regard you as tax liable to tax under their domestic laws. Often, this is for different reasons.
Living across borders shouldn't mean paying tax twice on the same income. We use international tax treaties to shield your earnings, establish your primary tax residence, and stop dual revenue authorities from claiming the same money.
An international move changes how every element of your wealth is taxed. Focusing solely on incoming salary leaves foreign property, pensions, and equity awards exposed to unexpected liabilities.
We evaluate how your entire financial life moves across borders, ensuring every asset is protected, structured, and compliant from day one.
Some of the questions that commonly arise when moving to Ireland, leaving Ireland or living between countries.
Often, but we first need to understand what the money actually represents. Cash accumulated before becoming Irish resident may have a very different tax treatment from foreign income or gains arising afterwards. For non-Irish domiciled individuals, identifying and preserving existing capital can be particularly important.
Yes, but keeping an investment overseas does not necessarily keep it outside the Irish tax system. The Irish treatment depends on what the investment actually is, your residence and domicile position and, in some cases, whether income or gains are brought to Ireland.
Potentially. Irish inheritance and gift tax does not depend simply upon where your parents live or where their assets are located. Your own residence history can become relevant, so significant family wealth should be considered well before a gift or inheritance is expected.
Do not assume the Irish treatment mirrors the US treatment. The particular retirement arrangement, the nature of the payment and the Ireland-US tax treaty all need to be considered, particularly before large withdrawals or inherited-account distributions.
Your assets do not start again when you cross a border. The important question is what happens to everything you already have when you move.