About this Event
About this event
The International Conference on Tax Administration is a prestigious biennial event bringing together leading tax administrators, tax administration policymakers, academics, and practitioners from around the globe.
The theme of the 2025 conference is ‘Tax Administration: Getting It Right’. The conference will explore latest developments and innovations in revenue administration in Australia and overseas. These include (not limited to):
- digitalisation, in particular artificial intelligence (AI), how it is changing (transforming) tax administration and the tax profession and the implications for policy, ethical exploitation, cyber security and educating the next generation of tax professionals;
- innovations in service delivery and tax compliance strategies;
- developments in taxpayer rights and dispute resolution including how they are evolving in a digitalised environment;
- tax administration’s role in reducing inequality, including new approaches to protecting the vulnerable (UN Sustainability Development Goal 10);
- developments in globalisation of revenue administration (e.g. mutual cooperation on tax risks and data exchange and exploitation);
- implementing and administering environmental taxes including how service and compliance techniques are being adapted; and
- any other national or international developments in tax administration.
Conference program
Join prominent tax researchers, policymakers, regulators, and administrators from Australia and across the globe at our 2025 conference ‘Tax Administration: Getting It Right’ and explore together 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, Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office Commissioner and Peter Mersi, Commissioner and CEO, Inland Revenue New Zealand 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 and Professor Les Book, Villanova University Pennsylvania discussing social justice in tax administration.
The program will also showcase innovative research with presenters vying for the Cedric Sandford Medal and a dedicated session sponsored by ADBI discussing Contemporary Tax Administration issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
Coming soon.
An important objective of our conference is to showcase new original research on these important themes. If you would like to have your research considered for presentation at the conference details on making a proposal can be found here 'call for papers'.
Event Details
When: 8 and 9 April 2025
Where: Pullman Sydney Hyde Park, 36 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010
Conference Dinner: 8 April 2025
Contact: [email protected], UNSW Business School, School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation
Early bird registration fee (full conference): AU$935 (closes by 31 January 2025)
Full registration fee (full conference): AU$1,035
Conference Accommodation
36 College Street Sydney NSW 2010
A special conference rate of $289AUD per room per night at the will be offered to delegates for the following dates:
Check-in: Monday, 7 April 2025
Check-out: Thursday, 10 April 2025
To access this exclusive offer for Tax Administration Conference participants, please use this link for individual reservations.
You are also welcome to contact the Pullman Sydney Hyde Park reservations team directly by phone or email. Please quote UNS040424 or mention “UNSW International ATAX Conference on Tax Administration 2025” at the time of booking.
Phone: +61 2 9361 8400
Email: [email protected]
Rates are AU$289.00 inclusive of GST and Breakfast for 1 person, per room, per night.
Parking rates (current at 2024):
Day Rate - AU$40pp for Full Day
Overnight - AU$62pp
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pullman Sydney Hyde Park, 36 College Street, Darlinghurst, Australia
AUD 385.00 to AUD 1035.00
