Mr Taxman, aka Adrian Raftery, MBA, B.Bus, FCA, CFP, F Fin, FTIA, MAICD
www.MrTaxMan.com.au
has almost 20 years experience in providing accounting services and financial advice to businesses and individuals. Being born to Irish immigrants and from a line of 6 generations of bricklayers, helped laid the foundations for the approachable, down to earth nature of Mr Taxman.
Time to drop the shovel and become an accountant
It was during a labouring stint at the age of 15 that Adrian's father gave him two options. Get an education or grab the shovel and wheelbarrow from the back of the ute & become the 7th bricklaying generation ... it didn’t take long for the accountant to emerge!
Whilst working with his father, Adrian would count the exact number of bricks required for each wall. He would make statements like "Dad I've worked out that if you didn't have so many smoke breaks, you could lay an extra 113 bricks exactly per day". It was soon after that his father suggested he drop the shovel and become an accountant.
The makings of Mr Taxman
To put himself through university, Adrian started an accounting cadetship with Pannell Kerr Forster before gaining more exposure as a manager with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He spent one year fulfilling a dream to work on the stock market as an option trader, before establishing ARW Chartered Accountants in 1997 and AccountantsRus in 2001.
Adrian is also a Certified Financial Planner, holds an MBA and specialises in business planning, financial planning and tax.
Adrian holds a graduate diploma in financial planning and a graduate certificate in Journalism. He is currently doing a PhD Scholarship with the School of Accounting at UTS where his focus of research is Self-Managed Superannuation Funds.
Please don't confuse 'Mr Taxman' with 'The Taxman!'
Despite being called it for years, alot of people confuse Mr Taxman with the ATO.
"Consider 'Mr Taxman' as being the good cop compared to 'The Taxman' as being the bad cop ... a subtle but important difference" says Adrian.
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Adrian RAFTERY
