Vu Nguyen has come the Club this year as a Gold Sponsor contributing his time to manage our financial reporting. Vu didn’t play footy growing up but you sense that he might have been a lot of fun on the end of season footy trip. Vu is offering discounted financial services to Club members and with the end of financial year approaching now would be a good time to familiarise yourselves with Tax Store Brunswick.

Where did you grow up?
I’ve always lived in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Initially in Richmond, then to Preston, then to Lalor.

Do you have a nickname and why?
WAY back then, it was T-BONE. Because there was always two sides of me; the good side and the ‘better’ side. It took a while to downplay the nickname, so it’s rather embarrassing for me to bring it up again!

Where did you go to School?
I went to Lalor Secondary College. My parents enrolled me into the local private school for year 10 – but I enjoyed Lalor much better, so I de-enrolled my self and went back to Lalor from year 11.

Did you play any sport? If so what was your greatest sporting achievement?
I wasn’t great on the sporting field, but the greatest physical achievement was just passing the fitness test (finishing the time trial with 2 mins to spare) to be become a firefighter when I was working for Parks Victoria in the summer of 2008/09 – the year of the Black Saturday bush fires.

What service do you provide to the BFC?
A colleague of mine (Goose from the Renegades) kept telling me about how she was dominating week on week, so I decided to keep score of the stats to she if she was living up to her stories.

When I established my business in Brunswick East, I thought it was a great way to get involved and contacted the club to see if I could contribute with bookkeeping and accounting services.

Being the first year preparing the accounts, I’ve assisted the club to implement a new sales recording system (Kounta) which will eventually eliminate the inputting of manual handwritten sales. Overtime, I hope to implement more time saving tools to assist the backend administration become more efficient.

AFL/AFLW team?
Carlton Football Club.

Favourite player in the AFL/AFLW?
Kade Simpson/Taylor Harris.

Professional career and current location?
I am a Chartered Accountant, Bookkeeper and Tax Agent. I have established a new business called Tax Store Brunswick, located at 114 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East.

Family?
Married to Lilly with five kids; Alanah (9), Blake (9), Kurt (7), Evan (5) and Ryan (2).

Vu Nguyen with three of his kids Kurt, Alanah and Evan (Tax Store cap).

Vu Nguyen with three of his kids Kurt, Alanah and Evan (Tax Store cap).