Tax returns to Kensington

Associate Professor Neil Warren has been appointed Head of the Australian School of Taxation (Atax). Professor Warren will take up the position on 1 July 2006 from Professor Chris Evans, who will step down after five years.

“Atax is Australia’s leading tax school and has established an enviable international reputation as a leader in tax research and teaching,” said Professor Warren. “I look forward to working with Atax’s excellent staff to build on the School’s already substantial research profile, its innovative teaching program, and its extensive and high level international linkages.”

Professor Warren’s appointment coincides with the formal reconstitution of Atax as a School within the UNSW Faculty of Law, and its move to the new purpose-built Law Building from Coogee.

“Atax’s success in diversifying its student and income base over a number of years has ensured its long-term sustainability within UNSW as a separate School,” said Professor Evans, who will now focus on teaching and research. He is currently leading an ARC-funded linkage project with CPA Australia that is considering aspects of personal tax reform in Australia.

Professor Warren is considered one the country’s leading tax experts. He has been a member of various State and Federal Government committees as an economics tax expert and appeared before numerous Senate Committees and Government reviews as an expert witness. He has also been Research Director of the Australian Tax Research Foundation since 1994 and an Advisor to the Business Coalition for Tax Reform since 1998. He is also a Reviewer of international standing for the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Most recently, Professor Warren wrote a major report commissioned by the NSW Government into intergovernmental fiscal arrangement in Australia that found the current fiscal arrangements in the Australian federation needed a complete overhaul.

Associate Professor Neil Warren