Rate My Professor Ann Kayis-Kumar

Professor Ann Kayis-Kumar is a Professor in the School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation within the UNSW Business School. She earned her PhD and BCom (Distinction)/LLB (Honours) from the University of New South Wales, along with a Fellowship of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) from UNSW and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP) from the College of Law. Admitted as a non-practising Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Federal Court, and High Court of Australia, she has built a distinguished career focused on taxation law and policy. As Founding Director of the UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic, she supports individuals facing serious financial hardship through pro bono services while aggregating data to highlight systemic tax issues. Her work has influenced policy, with recommendations adopted in the Australian Labor Party's 2025 Election Commitment to Women, the Australian Taxation Office's Vulnerability Framework, the Tax Ombudsman's investigation into financial abuse, and various parliamentary inquiries.

Ann Kayis-Kumar's research examines tax as a mechanism for social justice across the taxpaying spectrum, encompassing the tax-poverty interface, multinational taxation, cross-border intercompany deductions, financial vulnerability, economic abuse, and pro bono tax clinics. Notable publications include her book Taxing Multinationals: Preventing tax base erosion through the reform of cross-border intercompany deductions (Oxford University Press, 2019); co-authored Australian CGT Handbook editions (2017–2019); 'Squeezing blood from stones? A comparative analysis of tax relief for victim-survivors in Australia and the United States' (Australian Tax Forum, 2024); 'Redefining ATO Powers at the Intersection of Debt and Financial Vulnerability' (Australian Tax Review, 2025); and 'Serious Hardship Relief: In Need of a Serious Rethink?' (Sydney Law Review, 2021). She has garnered awards such as the Societal Impact Award (UNSW Business School Staff Excellence Awards, 2024), finalist in the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards (2022, 2023), AACSB International's Innovations That Inspire Award (2021), and Cedric Sandford Medal for Best Paper (2021). Active in committees including the ATO's Small Business and National Tax Clinic Stewardship Groups, Law Council of Australia's Taxation Committee, and Economic Abuse Reference Group's Business and Tax Working Group, she frequently contributes to media on ABC's The Business and Radio National.