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Prof John Prebble

Professor,
School of Law

Phone: 04 463 6311
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Street Address: Room 105, Government Building, 55 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus
Nearest Fax: 04 463 6365

Prof John Prebble

Currently Teaching

LAWS 365 - Elements of Taxation
Course Coordinator

BA LLB(Hons) Auck, BCL Oxon, JSD Cornell, Inner Temple, LEANZF



Administrative assistant: Rozina Khan Ph 04 463 6411


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Profile

Professor Prebble's main teaching and research interests are in income tax law, with specializations in basic principles of receipts, expenditure, and timing, international taxation, and anti-avoidance rules. He has developed the sub-discipline,'Jurisprudential Perspectives of Taxation Law';, which examines judicial reasoning in taxation cases from the perspective of legal philosophers. Professor Prebble has advised several governments on matters of tax reform and was a member of the New Zealand government's consultative committees on corporate taxation and international taxation in the 1980s and of the Committee of Experts on Tax Compliance in 1998. He has subsidiary interests in private international law and the law of elections. He has received a number of awards, most recently the medal of the Australasian Tax Teachers' Association, 2006. Full Vitae


Areas of Supervision (PhD and LLM)

  • Tax
  • Elections
  • Conflict of Laws


Memberships

Fellow, Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London

Advisory Board, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam

Advisory Board, Journal of Australian Taxation

Editorial Board, New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy

Editorial Board, eJournal of Tax Research

Senior Fellow, Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute, Monash University

Wellington District Law Society

International Fiscal Association

International Tax Planning Association

Society of Legal Scholars

Tax Research Network

Australasian Tax Teachers Association


Selection of Publications

Choice of Law to Determine the Validity and Effect of Contracts: a Comparison of English and American Approaches to the Conflict of Laws (1972) University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan i-x, 1-435, also published in (1973) 58 Cornell L. Rev. Part I 433-536, Part II 635-732.

The Taxation of Property Transactions, Butterworths, 1986, (winner of the JF Northey Prize).

'Why Is Tax Law Incomprehensible?' in S James (ed) Taxation, Vol II, Critical Perspectives on the World Economy Routledge, London 2002 221 � 237. Reprint of 'Why Is Tax Law Incomprehensible?' (1993) Victoria University of Wellington Inaugural Addresses, 2d Series 1-21. Also published in (1994) British Tax Review 380-393.

'Income Taxation, a Structure Built on Sand'(2002) 24 Sydney Law Review 301 (Inaugural Parsons Memorial Lecture, University of Sydney, 2001).

Taxation of Offshore Income, Fiscal Publications, Birmingham, 2006.


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