Austaxpolicy - ANU and Monash Collaboration

The Tax team in Monash’s Business Law and Taxation department

We are delighted to announce that Austaxpolicy, established by TTPI, is now a collaboration between the ANU and Monash University. The ANU looks forward to working with the Tax team in Monash’s Business Law and Taxation department (pictured above) to jointly advance our shared goal of disseminating tax and transfer research for the public benefit.

Monash’s Tax Law Research Group undertakes qualitative and quantitative research on tax law and policy issues of national and international significance. The Tax team’s subject matter expertise spans the full taxation spectrum, including personal and corporate income tax, energy and resources taxation, value added taxes, taxpayer compliance, and international taxation. The Group is committed to developing innovative cross-disciplinary projects that produce rigorous and accessible research for policymakers, the academy, the profession and the broader community.

Together, we will draw on our combined expertise, networks and institutional strengths to share important and pioneering research on tax and transfer policy with a global audience.

The Tax team in Monash’s Business Law and Taxation department, from left to right in image:

Agustinus Saputra (PhD Student), Ananda Anggara S (PhD Student), Swapna Verma, Amanda Selvarajah, Amna Shah, Helen Ping (co-editor of Austaxpolicy), John Minas (co-editor of Austaxpolicy and Director of the Taxation Law and Policy Research Group), John Bevacqua (head of Monash Department of Business Law and Taxation), Wide Putra (PhD Student)

Citation :

Walpola, Sonali, Ping, Yuan, Minas, John, Morris, Todd, Labanca, Claudio & You, Jean,
(2026),
Austaxpolicy – ANU and Monash Collaboration,
Austaxpolicy: Tax and Transfer Policy Blog,
20 March 2026, Available from:

About the Author

Sonali Walpola

Dr Sonali Walpola is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Business and Economics. Sonali’s research interests broadly encompass taxation law and policy and the nature of common law developments. Her recent projects have analysed integrity measures to address tax avoidance through trusts, the interpretation of the residence article in double tax agreements, and the Australian High Court’s attitude to change in the common law. Sonali is a co-editor of Austaxpolicy, the Journal of Australian Taxation and Law&History, which is the journal of the Australia New Zealand Law History Society. Sonali is a fellow of the ANU Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, a member of The Tax Institute Higher Education Academic Board, and the Academic Lead of the ANU Tax Clinic, which she co-founded in 2019.

Yuan Ping

Yuan (Helen) Ping is a Lecturer in Business and Corporate Law at the Department of Business Law and Taxation of Monash University and a qualified legal practitioner. She is currently completing a PhD at the Research School of Accounting, Australian National University. Helen’s research interests are in the fields of regulatory enforcement and corporate tax behaviour, specifically examining the effects of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s tax-related comment letters on market response and firm policies. She has published papers in the Australian Tax Forum and eJournal of Tax Research. Helen is also the co-editor of Austaxpolicy.

John Minas

John Minas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, a Research Affiliate with the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, at ANU, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Law Futures Centre at Griffith University.

Todd Morris

Todd Morris is a Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland and an Economics Editor at AusTaxPolicy. He obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2020. After that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy from 2019 to 2021 and at HEC Montreal from 2022 to 2023. His main research interests are in public and labour economics. A unifying theme to his research is the causal evaluation of government policies (often related to retirement).

Claudio Labanca

Dr Claudio Labanca is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Monash University. His research interests include Labor Economics, Public Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Claudio is a Research Affiliate at the IZA, the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU, SoDa Labs, and is a co-editor of Austaxpolicy.

Jean You

Dr Jean You is a Lecturer in Research School of Accounting of Australian National University. Jean’s research interests are in the fields of regulatory enforcement and policy setting, specifically tax transparency and tax avoidance in multinational entities. She has published papers in the Australian Tax Forum and ABACUS.

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