Doctor John Azzi

Dr John Azzi joined the University of Western Sydney in July 2010 after having practised as a barrister in Sydney for almost 10 years. Prior to that, John taught tax law in Australia (UNSW and UWS, 1993-1995), Switzerland (Robert Kennedy College, 1998-2004) and Holland (International Tax Academy, 1996-1998). Dr Azzi has also presented papers at important international inter-disciplinary conferences. John has considerable professional experience having worked as an income and capital gains tax adviser with Deloittes, Sydney, as a Senior Research Associate with the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) in Amsterdam (with responsibility for the Oceania countries) and as a consultant with the Australian Taxation Office, where he also was a member of the ATO Litigation Panel. In 1997 John obtained a doctor of juridical studies (SJD) from the University of Sydney. His thesis compared the operation of Australia?s newly introduced controlled foreign company (CFC) tax regime with the US and New Zealand equivalents.

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