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As a Director of OmniPro Tax and Legal Limited, John relishes problem-solving to help accountants develop innovative client solutions and sharing his technical knowledge on tax, company law, financial reporting and auditing.

A Chartered Tax Adviser, he advises clients in practice on a range of issues from income tax, tax planning, restructuring to exit planning as well as advising on company law in relation to these and many other matters. In addition, he provides support on financial reporting, auditing and company law; conducts company valuations and advises on pre-sale restructuring. He is also an insolvency practitioner who acts as liquidator in members voluntary liquidations and is a Registered Auditor.

Brian has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2002. He is a Senior Tax Manager in the firm’s South East Tax Practice with responsibility for the VAT team.

He has advised and delivered solutions to private individuals and companies on numerous VAT issues including compliance, property, business transfers and cross border related transactions.

Brian has also worked closely with numerous Public Bodies advising in relation to VAT, RCT and assisting with Revenue enquiries. He also has extensive experience dealing with Revenue on audits, queries, disclosures and negotiations.

Brian spent a number of years providing lectures on VAT for the Irish Payroll Association and has also been involved in education for the Irish Taxation Institute.

As an experienced Irish tax adviser, Christine Kearney offers expert tax planning and advisory services to entrepreneurial individuals and family businesses. Christine focuses on providing customized tax solutions and strategies that maximize the commercial outcome for all parties.

Christine possesses in-depth knowledge of Irish tax residency rules, Double Taxation Agreements, and family business re-structuring. This expertise enables her to effectively guide clients through the intricacies of tax planning while leveraging her extensive network of professionals.

Since 2019, Christine has been living between Ireland and the Cayman Islands. In 2021, she became an affiliate of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and since then, she has dedicated some of her time to working with contentious Trusts.

In June 2022, Christine founded VengaPeople with the aim of building a business that would allow her to work from anywhere in the world. Since then, she has worked in over 9 countries.

Thanks to Christine’s own cross-border experience and her interest in entrepreneurship, she primarily enjoys working with business owners and expats.

Brendan Casey has been practising as a lecturer and a PRSI Consultant since retiring from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection over 10 years ago.

Brendan advises on PRSI liability issues and is an expert on all of Welfare’s contributory benefit and pension schemes.

David Keary is a tax partner with Focus Tax partners, a specialist tax advisory practice helping private business, and its owners with all aspects of their tax affairs. David has over 18 years' experience in Big 4 and Top 10 firms advising on corporate tax advisory, M&A transactions and private client advice for private businesses and their owners. He has a particular interest in the interaction of tax and legal issues as well as the impact of specific and general anti-avoidance legislation.

A Chartered Tax Advisor, Naomi commenced her training in 2004 and has been working in practice since then. She progressed from trainee up to Head of Tax Compliance and Personal Tax Manager. Naomi has a range of experience overall tax heads with a strong understanding of personal taxes and payroll. She now has her own practice through which she provides in-house training as well as talks to employees on the Irish tax system along with looking after her private clients. She delivers Adult Education courses in general tax and sole traders through evening or night school in Knocklyon as well as teaching those sitting ATI and ACCA exams.