Administrative policy: why the ATO needs formal advisory boards

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Published on 01 Sep 99 by "TAXATION IN AUSTRALIA" JOURNAL ARTICLE

Continuing major changes to the tax regime are placing considerable demands on the resources of the ATO and of business. Advisory boards set up to assist Government, as with the GST, could be used as a pattern for further and wider permanent arrangements.

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Prof Michael Dirkis CTA

Michael is Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Sydney. He has a PhD on Australian international taxation and is a noted researcher, having authored Is it Australia's? Residency and Source Analysed (2005, Australian Tax Research Foundation), as well as authoring and co-authoring over 590 publications and papers. From May 1999 until October 2009 he was, as Senior Tax Counsel for the Taxation Institute, in the forefront of the all major tax reform and taxation administration reforms. He continues his involvement as a member of the Treasury's Tax Treaties Advisory Panel and the Education Committee of the Tax Practitioners Board. He was awarded the Australasian Tax Teachers Association's Graham Hill medal in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to the teaching of taxation law and policy" on 21 January 2010. - Current at 08 September 2017

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