Shane Macfarlane CA, FTIA
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.