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One platform for all your tax needs — if your tax life looks like any of these, you're in the right place.

Globally mobile & cross-border individuals

Your life crossed a border — now two tax systems want a piece, and neither local accountant sees the whole picture.

Expats, digital nomads, dual citizens, and professionals living or working across multiple countries.

Typical engagements

  • Establishing residency after a move
  • Claiming foreign tax credits or exclusions
  • Disclosing foreign accounts and assets
  • Managing permanent establishment risk
  • Planning exit taxes

Income types

Employment & self-employmentInvestment incomeRental & real estatePension & retirement

Asset types

Foreign bank & brokerage accountsReal propertyDiversified investment portfoliosRetirement accounts, pensions & annuities

Startup founders

You built the company. Don't let a missed election or a blown gain exemption cost you millions at exit.

Early-stage founders holding founder stock, SAFEs, convertible notes, or other private equity.

Typical engagements

  • Filing founder equity elections
  • Qualifying for small-business share gain exemptions
  • Planning secondary sales
  • Structuring founder equity splits
  • Pre-financing reorganizations

Income types

Employment & self-employmentEquity compensationCapital gains

Asset types

Private-company equity

Business owners & operators

How you pay yourself can swing your tax bill by double digits. Let's structure it the right way.

Owner-operators of private companies drawing a mix of salary, dividends, and distributions.

Typical engagements

  • Optimizing salary/dividend/distribution mix
  • Setting reasonable compensation
  • Choosing entity structure
  • Timing distributions
  • Managing payroll and social-charge exposure

Income types

Employment & self-employmentBusiness & distributionCapital gains

Asset types

Private-company equityOperating-business assets

Executives with stock compensation

Your RSUs and options just reshaped your tax picture — and default withholding won't cover what you owe.

Employees at public or pre-IPO companies receiving significant equity compensation awards.

Typical engagements

  • Covering withholding gaps on vesting equity
  • Valuing private-company awards
  • Timing option exercises
  • Managing alternative-tax exposure
  • Allocating equity income across jurisdictions

Income types

Employment & self-employmentEquity compensationCapital gainsInvestment income

Asset types

Public & pre-IPO equity awardsDiversified investment portfolios

Real estate investors

Real estate rewards those who structure and document it correctly, across every property and every border.

Owners of rental property, real estate syndications, partnerships, or development projects.

Typical engagements

  • Maximizing depreciation and capital allowances
  • Deferring gains through rollovers
  • Navigating passive-activity limits
  • Claiming professional-investor status
  • Handling non-resident withholding on sales

Income types

Business & distributionCapital gainsRental & real estate

Asset types

Real property

Investors & traders

Whether you trade daily or buy and hold, the right elections and clean basis tracking protect your gains.

Individuals trading or holding equities, options, futures, and other instruments, actively or passively.

Typical engagements

  • Establishing trader vs. investor status
  • Making mark-to-market elections
  • Applying wash-sale and straddle rules
  • Harvesting losses
  • Tracking cross-asset cost basis

Income types

Capital gainsInvestment income

Asset types

Diversified investment portfoliosDerivatives & traded instruments

HNWI, family offices, inheritors & beneficiaries

Complex wealth deserves one coordinated tax strategy — not a dozen disconnected advisors.

High-net-worth individuals, family offices, and beneficiaries of large inheritances, trusts, or foreign gifts.

Typical engagements

  • Harvesting capital gains
  • Structuring charitable giving and estate freezes
  • Planning trusts and inter-generational transfers
  • Claiming basis step-up
  • Reporting foreign gifts, inheritances, and generation-skipping transfers

Income types

Business & distributionCapital gainsInvestment incomeTrust, estate & inheritanceCarried interest & fund

Asset types

Foreign bank & brokerage accountsReal propertyPrivate-company equityDiversified investment portfoliosTrusts & inherited assetsOperating-business assetsCarried interest & fund/partnership interests

Retirees with international ties

Retiring across borders? Plan your pensions and withdrawals before the cheaper options close for good.

Retired individuals receiving pensions, social security, or account withdrawals across borders.

Typical engagements

  • Applying treaty treatment to pensions and benefits
  • Using totalization agreements
  • Timing retirement-account conversions
  • Managing required withdrawals across jurisdictions

Income types

Investment incomePension & retirement

Asset types

Foreign bank & brokerage accountsDiversified investment portfoliosRetirement accounts, pensions & annuities

Crypto investors

Staking, DeFi, NFTs — your on-chain activity is taxable, and most accountants can't keep up with it.

Individuals and entities holding crypto with staking, DeFi, mining, or NFT exposure.

Typical engagements

  • Tracking cost basis across wallets
  • Characterizing staking and airdrop income
  • Treating lost or stolen coins
  • Distinguishing mining from staking
  • Disclosing foreign-exchange holdings

Income types

Capital gainsDigital-asset income

Asset types

Digital assets

Athletes & entertainers

Every city you perform in wants to tax you. We make sure you're never paying twice.

Professional athletes, performers, and influencers earning income in multiple countries from varied sources.

Typical engagements

  • Allocating duty-day income across jurisdictions
  • Structuring personal-services and loan-out companies
  • Structuring image rights
  • Sourcing endorsement income

Income types

Employment & self-employmentRoyalty & licensing

Asset types

Operating-business assetsIntangible & IP rights

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