Meet Swiss-based US tax advisers
Kenneth Bransom, CPA – Managing Director
MOORE EMERSON GMBH
Kenneth Bransom, CPA has over 25 years of experience with top tier advisory firms. He has extensive experience with international taxation, cross-border arbitrage and post-merger integration planning with a principal focus on inbound investment into the US. Specialties include US federal income tax aspects of cross-border financing and structuring as well as capital markets and derivatives transactions.
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Darlene Hart - Founder and CEO
US Tax & Financial Services Sarl
Darlene Hart is CEO & founder of US Tax & Financial Services (est. 1986), a global tax company with offices currently in London, Zurich, and Geneva. She has over 30 years of tax, accounting, financial and retirement planning experience, working with international Big 4 firms in financial planning and initiating systems and policies.
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Matthew Hitchcock, CPA – Senior Manager
MOORE EMERSON GMBH
Matt Hitchcock’s area of focus is assisting private clients and their closely-held companies/investment vehicles in optimizing their international tax posture while maintaining global compliance. Additionally, Matt has extensive experience in transaction structuring and compliance in the private equity and real estate sectors. He has nearly eight years of experience with the Big Four acquired in both the United States and Germany and two years as an Internal Revenue Agent. Matt is a fluent German speaker.
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Monte Silver - Attorney at Law
SILVER & CO - ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Education: UCLA. B.A. in Economics (1991), Boston University School of Law (1994)
Bar Admissions: State of California (1994), Israel (1999)
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Norbert Sommerfeld - CPA / EA
SAS ACCOUNTING GMBH
Prior to founding SAS Accounting LLC, I had worked 20 years internationally as a Tax Advisor as well as a US GAAP, Swiss GAAP and IFRS Auditor with (PwC) PricewaterhouseCoopers. Preceding those engagements I also ran a local tax reporting office and worked in Multi-National Corporations as a Finance Manager and Director. I am licensed with the IRS (see IRS RPO Directory).
I am also both a Licensed US CPA with the State of Maine as well as an Enrolled Agent with the US Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service. In addition to this, I have also qualified with the Swiss Association of Certified Public Accountants (ExpertSuisse).
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Margaret Conklin
Margaret Conklin CPA
With over 30 years experience, I have helped many US citizens meet their US income tax and information reporting requirements. I work directly with the taxpayer or with the taxpayer's attorney, banker or foreign country tax preparer to bring the US tax compliance up to date.
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Chad Hatalla, EA, CFP - Senior Manager
Moore Emerson GmbH
Chad Hatalla has extensive experience in supporting and assisting employers and their employees with expatriate tax, mobility and HR issues arising from international assignments and business travelers. He has worked in the US, Switzerland and Japan, where he also advised on and prepared Japanese income taxes. Chad brings 16 years experience from the Big Four and an additional 3 working for smaller regional firms. Chad is an Enrolled Agent, Certified Financial Planner and Global Mobility Specialist.
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Pavla Melkova, EA, CFE - Owner
Taxpat
Pavla Melkova is an Enrolled Agent authorized to represent her clients in front of the Internal Revenue Service, with twenty years of experience in the financial industry and six years specializing in the preparation and filing of US tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of taxpayers residing outside the U.S.
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Jean-Marie Mettraux - Partner
HELM U.S. TAX
Originally from the French part of Switzerland, I have been based in Zurich since 2006. After my master’s degree I started working for the Claims Resolution Tribunal of the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation against Swiss Banks and other Swiss Entities. After this process was over and the assets redistributed, I started working for an international law boutique in Zurich specializing in cross-border tax service as a member of the US team that focuses on individuals and trusts with US tax problems. After a few years I was promoted to Director of a new US tax accounting firm I helped found. I managed the firm from the beginning with the partners and within 1.5 years developed it into a successful US tax firm before deciding to create my own company using my US and international compliance and tax knowledge.
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Teresa Sy-Him - CPA, MST - Principal
Beyond Borders US Tax Services
Teresa is a US licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from the state of Virginia and obtained a master’s degree in taxation (MST) from The George Washington University in Washington DC.She has 22 years of US tax experience, which includes a solid 17 years working for the Big 4 accounting firms. Prior to her career move to Switzerland in 2013, she worked in the US, Belgium, Bermuda, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Canada where she managed major companies’ expatriate tax programs.
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