About Us

Our firm is primarily composed of a Tax Partner and Managers from the Big Four Accounting firms and Senior Executives and Consultants from Global Corporations and the National Consulting firms.

A unique feature of our firm is that all of our current employees have a minimum of 15 years of experience and many have 25 to 32 years experience in their specialty.

Our firm may be small in comparison to the Big Four Accounting firms, but many of our employees have either national or international reputations in their specialty.

James Paul Sabo

James Paul Sabo, President of EXPATRIATE TAX SERVICES LLC, has over 30 years of experience in the international tax, human resource, compensation and benefit areas.

Jim received a B.S. degree in accounting from Rutgers - The State University.

Partnerships and employment include:

Coopers & Lybrand, Senior International Tax Partner
National Director - Expatriate Tax practice

Arthur Andersen & Co., Senior International Tax Partner,
Director - Expatriate Tax practice

Arthur Young & Company, Manager - Expatriate Tax practice

Jim has had engagement tax partner responsibility on major multinational companies, such as AIG, Amerada Hess, ARCO, Bankers Trust Company, Barclays Bank, Caltex, GTE, General Dynamics, Johnson & Johnson, Loral Corp., McKinsey and Company, Mobil Oil, Morgan Stanley, Philip Morris, Salomon, Inc., Sinclair Oil, and Texaco.

Jim has worked extensively in all areas of expatriate taxation, including the development of offshore employment companies, international compensation manuals, tax reimbursement programs, and the reduction of overall corporate costs by effective local country tax planning.

Jim's professional affiliations included membership in the:

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• New York Society of Certified Public Accountants
• New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants
• International Personnel Association
• American Society for Payroll Management
• American Compensation Association
• UK Based Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Jim has served on the:

• Board of Trustees of the One East Sixtieth Street Historical Foundation
• Board of Governors of the Metropolitan Club in New York City.
• Expatriate Tax Advisory Board of "Personal Taxation Abroad"
• International Payroll Advisory Board of CCH Incorporated
• International Tax Advisory Board of Global Education Services.

Jim has spoken frequently before international tax and personnel organizations in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States on such subjects as current developments in international compensation, tax problems in compensating expatriate employees, avoiding excessive and multiple taxation of expatriates, and other related expatriate tax problems and practices.

Jim has had articles published in such periodicals as the:

• Compensation Planning Journal
• International Essays for Business Decision Makers
• International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Jim co-authored the book Globalizing Compensation-Extending Stock Option and Equity Participation Plans Abroad

Jim currently authors two columns for "The Royal Gazette," a daily newspaper in Bermuda:

• United States tax issues
• United Kingdom tax issues