Our team · Australia · Vietnam · Colombia

The people behind your tax return.

Chartered accountants, CPAs and client specialists working across four continents - and most of us are, or have been, expats ourselves. Whatever timezone you're in, there's someone here who knows exactly what it's like.

§ 01

Leadership.

Shane Macfarlane

Shane Macfarlane CA, FTIA

Managing Partner & Founder
Melbourne, Australia

Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia, registered tax agent (Individual TAN: 25624705) and founder of Expat Taxes in 2006. With around 35 years in tax and accounting, Shane has spent the best part of two decades of that as an Australian expat himself, living and working across Malaysia, Indonesia, the United States and, most recently, ten years in Vietnam, before returning to Melbourne in 2025 to be closer to family.

That history is the point: every residency question, every cross-border return, every awkward decision about property and super back home, Shane has worked through it, not just for clients, but for his own affairs too. When you talk to him about your situation, you are talking to someone with deep expertise, who has lived a version of it. He is also a fintech founder, whose software startup, Fifo Workpapers (software created for Expat Taxes Aust, was acquired by US accounting software giant, Intuit in 2013.

Terryn Davidow

Terryn Davidow CPA

Tax Partner
Bogotá, Colombia

CPA-qualified tax specialist and registered tax agent (Individual TAN: 26003459), originally from Perth, with more than 20 years in tax and accounting. Alongside Shane, Terryn supervises our team and takes personal care of many of our clients himself. He understands the expat side from the inside, because he lives it: Terryn runs our files from Bogotá, Colombia, where he has built a life with his wife and son, navigating the same residency questions, time zones and distance-from-home that his clients are weighing up every day.

When you call him, you reach someone who genuinely gets it. And when he is not buried in returns, you will find him cycling Colombia’s endless mountain climbs or out on the pitch for the Bogotá Cricket Club.

§ 02

The tax team.

Grant Keating

Grant Keating FCPA

Senior Tax Manager
Maroochydore, Australia

FCPA with over 35 years in taxation, accounting and audit – including 16 years running his own practice. Big-picture vision, with a love of getting into the weeds of detailed tax planning for our clients.

Sharon Solomon CA

Sharon Solomon CA

Senior Tax Manager
Gold Coast, Australia

Chartered Accountant and Registered Tax Agent with extensive public practice experience across Australian taxation, accounting and advisory. Having also lived and worked overseas herself, Sharon understands first-hand that tax can become a little more complicated when life crosses borders. She brings a practical, detail-focused approach to her work and enjoys making complex tax matters easier for clients to understand.

Vusi Nxele

Vusi Nxele CPA

Senior Tax Manager
Harare, Zimbabwe

CPA Australia-qualified with 19 years in tax with a particular love of the tricky stuff: trusts, capital gains and getting the detail right. A key member of our quality control team reviewing returns from Zimbabwe, Vusi is living proof of our founding idea: that Australian expats are best served by Australian tax experts living the expat life themselves. Very little gets past him, which is exactly how we like it.

Nhi Nguyen

Nhi Nguyen CPA

Tax Manager
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

CPA Australia-qualified tax specialist with more than a decade in the industry, much of it delivering high-quality Australian tax work in demanding outsource environments. With ETS since 2019 – and respected by the whole team.

Phuong Phan

Phuong Phan CPA

Senior Tax Accountant
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

CPA Australia-qualified specialist and one of our tax and accounting rock-stars. Highly skilled in expatriate tax, with excellent research instincts that hold her – and her clients – in very good stead.

Mai Nguyen

Mai Nguyen

Accountant
Hanoi, Vietnam

An experienced tax specialist with over seven years in the industry and deep expatriate tax knowledge. Mai loves nothing more than saving her clients as much tax as legally possible.

Ngoc Nguyen

Ngoc Nguyen

Accountant
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

A careful, detail-driven tax accountant preparing Australian expat returns with accuracy and pace. Ngoc works closely with our tax managers to make sure every return that leaves the practice is right the first time.

Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith CPA

Tax Consultant
Perth, Australia

A career that began at the ATO and ran through principal-level roles at Grant Thornton, PKF and BDO in corporate and international tax. Andrew advises on our most complex matters – and trains other accounting firms across WA for good measure.

§ 03

Client services.

Katie Walsh

Katie Walsh

Client Relationship Manager
Australia

Katie is often the first voice you’ll hear at Expat Taxes – warm, organised and relentlessly on your side. She keeps your engagement moving, your questions answered and the whole practice running to schedule.

Angela White

Angela White

Client Relationship Manager
Australia

Angela looks after our clients from enquiry to lodgement – scheduling consultations, chasing the paperwork so you don’t have to, and making sure nothing (and no one) falls through the cracks.

§ 04

Marketing & design.

Bill Crang

Bill Crang

Marketing Consultant
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

An Australian expat of more than ten years and a digital marketing specialist. Bill’s mission: get the ETS story in front of the thousands of Aussies living incredible expat lives in every corner of the globe.

Phong Giang

Phong Giang

Digital Designer
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Our designer of more than five years – branding, web and print for Expat Taxes and a number of our clients. If it looks good around here, Phong probably made it.

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