Hope Ashiabor
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Formal Name: Hope Ashiabor Personal Title: Associate Professor Position: Associate Professor Organisational Unit: Department of Business Law Qualifications: LLB (Hons), Qual Cert Legal Prac (Ghana); LLM, PG Dip Taxation (Monash); Cert. Higher Ed (Macq); FTIA Telephone: (+61-2) 9850 8457 Fax: (+61-2) 9850 9952 Email: hope.ashiabor@mq.edu.au Location: W3A 430 |
Profile
Hope Ashiabor has written extensively Associate Professor of Law in the Division of Law, (Department of Business Law), at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, where he teaches taxation law and international tax. He has held visiting positions at Cleveland State University, and Walsh University, Ohio.
His research interests are in the areas of environmentally related taxes, emissions trading, and the use of tax expenditures in policy implementation. He is a member of the international organising committee of the annual Global Environmental Tax Conference series. He is also co-editor of the series Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation (Richmond Law & Tax, UK); and an Associate Editor to the book Critical Issues in International Environmental Taxation (CCH Inc, US, 2002). He has written extensively, and prepared public submissions on different aspects of the role of fiscal instruments in managing the challenges of environmental degradation.
He was engaged as a consultant to the OECD Environment Directorate on project dealing with border tax adjustments and environmentally related taxes, and on an Ausaid project with the Fiji Islands Inland Revenue and Customs Department on an international transfer pricing project.
He was the convenor of the Fourth Annual Conference on Environmental Taxation Issues held in Sydney in 2003: http://www.law.mq.edu.au/eti/program.htm.
Prior to joining Macquarie University, Hope worked as a state attorney; and before that was an in-house counsel with a commercial bank.
Teaching Responsibilities
Undergraduate
BUSL320 Revenue Law, BUSL379 European Trade Law,
Postgraduate
International Taxation, Taxation Law, Research Projects Co-Ordinator (Master of Commercial Law)
Research Interests
Environmental Taxes; Tax expenditures and policy implementation; International tax law and policy; The compliance costs of taxation; Integration of generic skills into the curriculum.
Recent Publications
- Cavaliere, Ashiabor, Deketelaere, Kreiser and Milne, (eds) Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives: Volume III, Richmond Law and Tax Publishing, UK (2006), pp 730
- Co-author Blazey, P "Fiscal Instruments and the Management of the Transition to Sustainable Mobility in Australia - Challenges and Prospects" Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives: Volume III, Richmond Law and Tax Publishing, UK (2006), pp 143-164
- Co-author Prof. Chalifour, N.J "The Practice and Politics of Allowing Deductions of Environjmental Fines, Penalties and Payments from Income - A Comparison of the Australian and Canadian Approaches" Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives: Volume III Richmond Law and Tax Publishing, UK (2006) pp 671-708
- Chapter 5: The Sectoral Competitiveness Issue - Border Tax Adjustments, in The Political Economy of Environmentaally Related Taxes, OECD, Paris, 2006, pp 89-106