Description

Australia is at the forefront of the new wave of anti-abuse approaches in taxation law and policy especially regarding international taxation, transparency, base erosion and profit shifting. Professor Stewart will explain the new multilateral anti-avoidance law, diverted profits tax, transparency and disclosure developments in Australia. She will put these in context of the new Turnbull government’s goal to reduce the company tax rate and to encourage innovation with a range of tax incentives and will discuss the potential implications for Singapore and the Asian region more generally.

About The Speaker

Professor Miranda Stewart is the Director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at Crawford School, Australian National University in Canberra and is a Professor at the University of Melbourne Law School.

Professor Stewart is an international expert with more than 20 years’ experience working at the leading edge of tax law and policy research, design and development. Professor Stewart has published widely on taxation including on business tax law and policy, tax cooperation and globalization, avoidance and sham, institutions and processes of tax reform. She has previously worked at New York University School of Law in the United States, in major Australian law firms and at the Australian Taxation Office and has consulted for government on various tax and transfer policy issues.