Rachel Sestini

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ABOUT RACHEL SESTINI

I am a specialist in cross-border private client tax with over 30 years\'​ experience. In 2013, I set up Sestini & Co in 2013 to provide clear, practical and coherent tax advice to individuals and business owners. From inception we grew to a team of 15 with a wide breadth of knowledge and experience in tax, accountancy and business management. In 2024, Sestini & Co merged with the Shaw Gibbs Group a top-40 regional firm. Within Shaw Gibbs, the Sestini & Co team has grown to 27, in part due to the acquisition of the US Tax team at Farnell Clarke.Our typical clients are high net worth individuals, business owners, executives and family offices, for whom we can offer the full range of US and UK personal tax planning including income tax and capital taxes, as well as a US and UK tax return preparation service. We work closely with advisers across other disciplines including accounts, bookkeeping, corporate tax and wealth planning, which means we can offer an integrated service to meet our clients\'​ needs. My personal focus is advising individuals who have an international element to their lives, whether they are UK resident but non-domiciled, non-UK resident, returning to the UK from abroad, or Americans living outside of the USA. Working with our network of international contacts, we can advise individuals on how to optimise their worldwide tax position and how to correctly reflect this planning in their tax returns. As a firm, we have expanded this specialism into working with \"quirky and unusual\" clients: people whose tax situations diverge from the standard, who benefit from an individual service rather than a service centre or production line approach.We can also advise companies on the issues they may encounter as they post employees overseas or engage employees from overseas to work in the UK. This includes advise on reward and remuneration policy, taxation of bonus and share plans, pension planning and expatriate policy as well as international payroll issues.In 2017 I set up Hayward Sestini Ltd (previously called Sestini & Co Pension Trustees Ltd) with my co-director Samantha Hayward, to provide trustee and administration services to members of SSAS pensions, thus offering a new way of managing pensions to entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses. Since 2017 we have grown to a team of six.I also have NED and consultancy roles with a number of early-stage start-ups, supporting them in their funding journey and as they scale.