Elen Seymour
Career Profile
Following graduation with a double degree in Arts and Law from Sydney University Elen commenced work with the Australian Taxation Office in their Graduate Program. After completing the Graduate Program Elen was promoted to a position in the International Tax Department. She worked in the audit team in the Transfer Pricing Record Review Project and advised on taxation of trusts. Elen was recruited as a Consultant to PricewaterhouseCoopers Sydney Australia to the International Tax (Transfer Pricing) team and later to PricewaterhouseCoopers Ottawa, Canada as a Senior Association in International Tax. Returning to Australia she accepted an offer to teach Taxation Law at UWS. She has also taught at the University of Wollongong taxation and commercial law subjects. Recently Elen has accepted a position as Lecturer in Taxation Law and Financial Services with the School of Law at UWS.
Interests
Learning and Teaching
Elen is a specialist revenue and tax law lecturer. Elen is currently teaching undergraduate and post-graduate tax law service units and Revenue Law to undergraduate law students. Elen has also taught Law of Business Organisations and has a keen interest in many aspects of Administrative Law. Elen has a keen interest in blended learning and regularly incorporates technology in teaching. To this end she has used podcasts, twitter and online discussion forums to build and imporve the student learning experience.
Research Interests
Elen is currently undertaking her PhD with the University of Sydney. Her thesis is on taxation of charities in Australia.
Publications
The Henry Review and Charitable Purpose. Workable Solutions or Another Band-Aid? in Journal of Australasian Law Teachers Association 2010, vol 3, 1&2, 127.
Textbook Chapters
Chapters 9,10 and 11 in Taylor, S; Juchau,R; Houterman, B; Financial Planning in Australia 2010, 4th Edition, Lexis Nexis.
Chapters 8,9 and 10 in Taylor, S; Juchau,R; Houterman, B; Financial Planning in Australia 2009, 4th Edition, Lexis Nexis.
Conference Papers
"Rethinking Regulation of the Charitable Sector" July 2011 Australasian Law Teachers Association at the Queensland University of Technology.
"Charitable Giving: Assessing Public Benefit of Deductible Giving" at the 2011 Australasian Tax Teachers Association at University of Melbourne.
"The Henry Review and Charitable Purpose: Workable Solutions or Another Band-Aid?" at the Australasian Law Teachers Association 2010 at Auckland University.
Submissions
Co-authored with Dr Elfriede Sangkuhl and Ms Marina Nehme, Submission to the Commonwealth Treasury Improving the Integrity of Public Ancillary Funds Discussion Paper, 2010.
Submission to the Commonwealth Tresury, A Definition of Charity Consultation Paper October 2011.
Co-author with Dr Marina Nehme, Submission to the Commonwealth Treasury Exposure Draft Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012.
