Professor Ann Kayis-Kumar
Professor
PhD (91色情片) | BCom (Distinction) / LLB (Honours) (91色情片) | FULT (91色情片) | GDLP (College of Law) | Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW, Federal Court & High Court of Australia (non-practising)
Business School
School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation
Professor Ann Kayis-Kumar's research conceptualises tax as a mechanism to achieve social justice across the taxpaying spectrum. She is the Founding Director of 91色情片 Tax and Business Advisory Clinic, which bridges the gap between grassroots community support and empirical research by supporting people in serious hardship and in turn aggregating client data to identify systemic issues.
Ann's research team and cross-sector collaborators have seen their joint policy recommendations and law reform proposals adopted by government, government agencies and national reviews including as Bullet Point 1 of the ALP's 2025 Election Commitment to Women, the ATO's Vulnerability Framework, the Tax Ombudsman's Investigation into the Identification and management of financial abuse within the tax system, the Report of the Rapid Review of Prevention Approaches to End Gender-Based Violence, and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services's Financial Abuse Inquiry.聽
Ann is regularly involved in the media, with multiple appearances on ABC's The Business and ABC Radio National, amongst others.
Ann serves on a range of industry, government agency and community sector committees including the ATO's Small Business and National Tax Clinic Stewardship Groups, the Australian Financial Security Authority鈥檚 Consumer Consultative Panel, the Law Council of Australia's Taxation Committee, and the Economic Abuse Reference Group's (EARG) Business and Tax Working Group.
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Location
School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation (incorporating Atax)
Room 3105, Level 3, Quadrangle Building (E15)
91色情片 Sydney 2052
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
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Ecstra Foundation New Women's Economic Security Grant 2025-26聽鈥 Lead Chief Investigator on the project entitled "91色情片 Tax and Business Advisory Clinic"
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Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2025-27聽鈥 Lead Chief Investigator on project entitled "Tax justice: Closing policy gaps to lessen intimate partner financial abuse"
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Australian Government鈥檚 Australian Taxation Office National Tax Clinic Program 2025-27聽鈥 Lead Chief Investigator on project entitled "91色情片 Tax and Business Advisory Clinic"
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91色情片 Business School and 91色情片 Australian Human Rights Institute Seed Funding Scheme 2025聽鈥 Lead Chief Investigator on project entitled "The (ethical) standards we walk past: Addressing the weaponisation of accounting and legal professionals by perpetrators of intimate partner financial abuse"
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Australian Government鈥檚 Australian Taxation Office National Tax Clinic Program 2022-24 鈥 Lead Chief Investigator on project entitled "91色情片 Tax and Business Advisory Clinic"
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Ecstra Foundation Grant 2022-24聽鈥 Lead Chief Investigator on the project entitled "91色情片 Tax Clinic 鈥 Overcoming serious financial hardship"
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NSW Department of Communities & Justice's Investing in Women Funding Program 2022-23 鈥 Lead Chief Investigator on project entitled "From economic abuse to economic empowerment: Identifying and supporting financially vulnerable Indigenous women in small business"
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Australian Human Rights Institute Seed Funds Grant 2021 鈥 Lead Investigator on the project entitled 鈥淟et鈥檚 talk about tax 鈥 Identifying and supporting women experiencing economic abuse鈥
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NSW Government鈥檚 NSW Women鈥檚 Week Grant 2021 鈥 Chief Investigator on the project entitled 鈥淚mproving financial wellbeing, financial literacy, and mental health outcomes for financially vulnerable women in NSW鈥
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Australian Government鈥檚 Australian Taxation Office National Tax Clinic Program 2021 鈥 Chief Investigator on project entitled "91色情片 Tax Clinic"
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Australian Government鈥檚 Australian Taxation Office National Tax Clinic Program 2020 鈥 Chief Investigator on project entitled "91色情片 Tax Clinic"
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Health@Business and 91色情片 Medicine Collaboration Seed Funds Grant 2020 鈥 Chief Investigator on the project entitled "Improving mental health outcomes for small businesses in financial distress"
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CSI Business School Research Grant 2019 鈥 Chief Investigator on the project entitled 鈥91色情片 Tax Clinic and Beyond鈥
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91色情片 Business School Linkage Research Seed Funding 2019 鈥 Co-Chief Investigator on the project entitled 鈥淐ounting the costs of tax advice: Value added or added burden?鈥
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Australian Government鈥檚 Australian Taxation Office National Tax Clinic Pilot 2019 鈥 Co-Chief Investigator 1 on project entitled "91色情片 Tax Clinic"
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91色情片 Business School Breakthrough Research Grant 2019 鈥 Co-Chief Investigator 1 on the project entitled 鈥淭ax Clinic鈥
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91色情片 Business School Special Research Grant 2018 鈥 Chief Investigator on a SRG entitled 鈥淩eforming the Cost of Managing Tax Affairs Deduction: A Framework for Balancing Equity, Efficiency and Integrity鈥
- Societal Impact Award, 91色情片 Business School Staff Excellence Awards聽(2024)
- Finalist, The Australian Financial Review (AFR) Higher Education Awards (2023)
- Finalist, The Australian Financial Review (AFR) Higher Education Awards (2022)
- John Prescott Award for Outstanding Teaching Innovation, 91色情片 Business School Staff Excellence Awards (2021)
- Cedric Sandford Medal for Best Paper at the 14th International ATAX Tax Administration Conference (2021)
- AACSB International's Innovations That Inspire Award (2021)
- 91色情片 Business School's Social Engagement: UN Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Award (2020)聽
- 91色情片 Business School Dean's Emerging Leadership Award (2019)
- 91色情片 Business School's John Prescott Award for Outstanding Teaching Innovation (2018)
- Best Teaching Paper, Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference (2017)
- Graham Hill IFA Research Prize (Fully paid participation in the IFA Congress and Poster Program in Seoul, Korea) (2017)
- 91色情片 Learning and Teaching Forum: Favourite Forum Poster (2016)
- 91色情片 Business School Dean鈥檚 Award for Service (2016)
- 91色情片 Business School Student Research Fair: Best Higher Degree Research Poster (2015)
- 91色情片 Business School 3MT Faculty Heat: Winner; and, 91色情片 Interfaculty 3MT Final: Highly Commended (2014)
- University of Sydney Business School Dean鈥檚 Citation for Tutoring (2013, 2014)
- Detailed Assessor, Australian Research Council (ARC)
- Vice President (elect), Australasian Tax Teachers Association (ATTA)
- BLS Taxation Committee Member, Law Council of Australia
- Committee Member, The Tax Institute's SME Technical Committee
- Committee Member, 91色情片 Business School Sustainable聽Development Goals (SDG) Committee
- Appointed Member, Westminster Tax Discussion Group
- Member, International Fiscal Association (IFA)
- Member, Taxation Research Network (TRN) UK
- Research Affiliate, ANU's Tax and Transfer Policy Institute
- Institute Associate, Australian Human Rights Institute