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ProfessorAdrian Sawyer

Professor

Department of Accounting and Information Systems

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TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

I teach into courses ranging from first year to postgraduate in both the UC Business School and Faculty of Law, predominantly in taxation, including the following:

Taxation (undergraduate):
ACCT 103
ACCT 254
ACCT 358
ACCT 359
LAWS 352

Insolvency (undergradate):
LAWS 335

Taxation (postgraduate):
ACCT 626
ACCT 634

Business Taught Masters:
MPAC 605

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An examination of whether New Zealand should reintroduce a land tax and, if so, the form and design it should take to better align New Zealand's tax system with its broad-base, low-rate (BBLR) tax policy framework
    13 Jul 2026
    Olsson, William
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    How should a head of charitable purpose in section 5(1) of the Charities Act 2005 be reformed to better capture contemporary charitable activity in New Zealand
    13 Jul 2026
    Wilson, Joel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    NZ's Research and Development Tax Incentives
    1 Dec 2025 - 13 Jul 2026
    Buyck, Petra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Tax Amnesty, Its Composite Outcome and Probability on the Economy of Bangladesh
    1 Apr 2025
    Nahar, Nazmun
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Addressing Income Inequality through Fiscal Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Timor-Leste and Fiji
    1 Feb 2025
    Monteiro, Jonianto
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Case Study: A Comprehensive Analysis for Dynamic Controls in Adopting Best Practices of Cooperative Tax Compliance as a Multinational Enterprise
    1 Jul 2024 - 2 Dec 2024
    Li, Lili
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    He Whāriki Ture: Towards Māori Tax Sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand
    1 Jul 2024 - 15 Aug 2025
    Snodgrass, Keriana
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understanding how tax literacy influences tax compliance among spaza shop owners in the Sedibeng region
    1 Apr 2023
    Ssemyonjo, Peter
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Social Norms on Internet: Improving online MSMEs’ tax compliance in Indonesia
    1 Jul 2022
    Indriani, Vitria
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Tax Education in New Zealand Secondary Schools
    1 Jun 2022 - 30 Nov 2023
    Beaver, Amy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Tax Literacy of New Zealand Small Business Owners: An Exploratory Study
    1 May 2022
    Waddell, Harry
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Analsyis of the NZ taxation of property transactions
    1 Mar 2022 - 1 Dec 2025
    McMorran, Kevin
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Towards a South African Value-Added Tax Act simplification framework
    1 Jun 2021 - 31 Oct 2023
    Hassen, Muneer
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Taxation Review Authority of New Zealand: Origins, Cases and Contribution
    1 Mar 2021
    Hodson, Alistair
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    It’s Just Principle: Justifying International Taxation Reforms on a Theoretical Basis
    22 Feb 2021 - 11 Feb 2022
    Chin, Jared
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Analysis of the United States’ Approach to Pillar One
    22 Jun 2020 - 11 Jun 2021
    McNichol, Alex
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Understanding how education affects students’ attitudes towards tax evasion and tax avoidance in New Zealand
    1 Apr 2020 - 30 Sep 2021
    Zhang, Ye
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law for New Zealand?
    24 Feb 2020 - 14 Jan 2021
    Hall, Jamie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The role of tax professionals in corporate taxpayer compliance: A comparative empirical study of New Zealand and Vietnam
    1 Feb 2020
    Pham, Huong
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Effects of the Base Erosion And Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action 13 on Transfer Pricing Practices: A Comparative Empirical Study of New Zealand and Vietnam
    1 Apr 2019 - 30 Jun 2020
    Tran, Vinh
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Integrating Tax Education into the Tertiary Education Curriculum: A Case Study of Indonesia
    1 Mar 2019 - 22 Nov 2024
    Wicaksono, Panggah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Should New Zealand introduce a Digital Services Tax?
    25 Feb 2019 - 16 Dec 2019
    Donaldson, Beth
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Magnitude of BEPS of MNEs with their Business Operation in NZ
    11 Sep 2017 - 11 Feb 2022
    Siew Yee, Chen
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Multilateral Machinations: a “novel approach”? Evaluating the impact of the OECD Multilateral Convention on New Zealand’s tax laws and bilateral tax treaties
    20 Feb 2017 - 7 Feb 2018
    Reid, Jonny
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Secrets Can Cause Trust Issues: An Inquiry into The Reform of New Zealand’s Foreign Trust Regime
    20 Feb 2017 - 18 Dec 2017
    Hansby, Michael