Personal Profiles

Breen Cassidy
Partner Indirect Tax Services

What are your main responsibilities?
Partner in Charge of VAT & Customs, advising clients.

What is the most interesting thing about your job?
The variety of people in the business that I deal with.

What most prepared you for your current role?
Working as a Tax Inspector in Revenue.

What is the current most interesting thing happening in your field?
Revenue are conducting a full review of VAT legislation in regard to property.

What was your best subject in school?
History.

What's your favorite saying/quotation?
Give me a break.

How long go you spend commuting each day?
2 hours.

Favourite form of relaxation?
Golf.

What is the best book you have ever read?
Bob Geldof ‘Is that it’.

What's your favourite film?
All the Presidents Men.

What's your favourite sporting moment?
Ireland v Italy 1994 World Cup.

What is your pet hate?
Traffic.

What's your ideal holiday?
A week in the West of Ireland.

If you could go back in time, what year would you go back to and why?
1986 – travelled for 3 months in Australia.

If you could meet anyone in the world from any era who would it be? And why?
Paul Newman – class actor.

What has been your proudest moment?
Birth of my 3 children.

If you were not the a VAT Partner what other job would you be in?
Hotelier.

What would you like your legacy to be?
Been there, done that.