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“Tax is now a critical issue domestically and internationally,” said Tom Maguire, tax partner in Deloitte leading the firm’s Tax Technical and Policy Team. “One only has to look at the pace of change in the past few years as we and other countries sought to adhere to OECD agreements and other policy developments.”

“As Adjunct Full Professor, I look forward to working with the team in UCD and to engaging with students on these critical issues.”

In Deloitte, Tom provides tax advice on a wide range of domestic and international corporation tax matters and assists teams on issues facing their clients. He is highly regarded within the tax profession as a deep technical specialist and leads the firm’s responses on tax policy matters including responding to public consultations issued by the Department of Finance.

Tom is also the current author of Bloomsbury’s leading texts of “Irish Income Tax (formerly “Judge”) and “The Taxation of Companies” (formerly “Feeney”), both of which are recognised as the most authoritative commentary on those taxes in this country. They are used regularly by tax advisers, accountants, lawyers, judges and others in the tax profession. The latter contains a foreword by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe.

Tom also writes his own “Irish Capital Gains Tax”. Then Minister for Finance, and now EU Commissioner, Michael McGrath launched the fifth edition to “Irish Capital Gains Tax” in Ireland’s Stock Exchange and wrote in its foreword, “Tom has distilled his extensive knowledge, derived from both his work in tax practice and his publications on other aspects of the tax code, to provide expert analysis of Ireland’s Capital Gains Tax legislation and its interpretation by the appeals commissioners and the courts… Taken together with his other excellent texts, … Tom Maguire continues to provide readers with a compelling and broad analysis of both the theory and practice of the Irish tax system”.

His extensive experience includes authoring the texts, “Taxing GAAP and IFRS” and “Ireland’s General Anti-Avoidance Rule and the Rule of Irish law”; the latter was launched by the then former Attorney General Paul Gallagher SC.

He also was one of the contributors to the Irish Tax Institute’s texts of “Taxing Financial Transactions” and “Irish Tax Policy in Perspective” and was editor of its annual tax legislative publication “Direct Tax acts” for over a decade.

His most recent, “Crisis: 25 business leaders on surviving in troubled times”, was written with Covid-19 as its backdrop. All royalties from that text went to Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross and the text contains a foreword by former Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.