Hosted by the School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation at the UNSW Business School, the 16th International Atax Conference on Tax Administration will take place on April 8th and 9th, 2025 at the Pullman Sydney Hyde Park Hotel.

The theme of the 2025 conference is “Tax Administration: Getting It Right”. The conference will explore contemporary issues in administering tax systems. Topics include digitalisation, particularly AI, and the future of tax administration and the tax profession, the latest innovations in service delivery and tax compliance and the increasing role tax is playing in sustainability (ESG) including tax administration’s role in protecting the vulnerable (UN Sustainability Development Goal 10).

Keynote speakers will include leaders in tax administration Rob Heferen, Australian Taxation Office Commissioner and Peter Mersi, Inland Revenue New Zealand Commissioner and CEO,; and distinguished academics Professor Benjamin Alarie, University of Toronto and co-author with Abdi Aidid of The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better, Professor Penelope Tuck, University of Birmingham, UK, sharing her insights on whether environmental taxes policy and practice is stacking up.

In the special session sponsored by UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic in collaboration with the Center for Taxpayer Rights, Nina Olson, Executive Director of the Centre for Taxpayer Rights, Professor Les Book, Villanova University Pennsylvania, and other leading voices will discuss Can Tax Contribute to Reducing Inequality?

The conference is now calling for paper submissions. Proposals should be sent by end of Friday 26 October 2024 (Sydney time).

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