Personal Profiles

Brian Keenan
Senior Manager, Indirect Tax Services - Dublin

1. What are your main responsibilities?
Senior Manager in Indirect Tax services advising clients on domestic and international VAT matters.

2. What is the most interesting thing about your job?
Dealing with clients in a wide range of sectors.

3. What most prepared you for your current role?
20 years with the Revenue Commissioners.

4. What is the current most interesting thing happening in your field?
Review by Revenue of the quagmire that is VAT on property legislation.

5. What was your best subject in school?
Mathematics.

6. What's your favourite saying/quotation?
"Trying is the first step to failure" - Homer Simpson

7. How long do you spend commuting each day?
2-3 hours.

8. What is your favourite form of relaxation?
Golf.

9. What is the best book you have ever read?
The Magus by John Fowles

10. What's your favourite film?
Rear Window with James Stewart & Grace Kelly

11. What's your favourite sporting moment?
Ireland's win against Holland in 2001
Stephen Roche's Tour de France win in 1987
Manchester City's 2nd division play-off win against Gillingham in 1999 (sad I know).

12. What is your pet hate?
Traffic and bad service.

13. What's your ideal holiday?
Anywhere warm, sunny and quiet.

14. If you could go back in time, what year would you go back to and why?
Any time before the property price boom - self explanatory.

15. If you could meet anyone in the world from any era who would it be? And why?
Julia Roberts. Don't ask silly questions.

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

17. If you were not doing what you are doing now, what other job would you be in?
Undoubtedly a golf professional unless a lack of talent got in the way.

18. What would you like your legacy to be?
A single figure handicap.