Mark Keating
Senior Lecturer
Department:
Address: Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty: Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 88933
Email: m.keating@auckland.ac.nz

Mark Keating is a Senior Lecturer in tax at the University of Auckland Business School. He has worked as a legal editor for CCH NZ Ltd and authored many CCH publications and journal articles, principally on the tax disputes procedure, tax administration, and on GST. Mark has consulted on the Commissioner's statutory powers and the tax disputes process to Inland Revenue's investigations and litigation management units and to Crown Law.
Qualifications:
2003 LLM Cornell University
1999 MTaxS(Hons) University of Auckland
1991 LLB University of Auckland
Special Interests:
Taxation, particularly GST, Tax Disputes and Tax Administration
Teaching:
2010 COMLAW 301 Taxation
2010 COMLAW 311 Advanced Taxation
2010 COMLAW 741 New Zealand's International Tax
2010 COMLAW 747 The Goods and Services Tax
2010 COMLAW 751 Taxation of Property Transactions
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Can you keep a secret? The obligation of secrecy and right to disclose taxpayers' information‘, Australian Tax Review, 28, 3, 135-160.
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Deductibility of UOMI and interest on funds borrowed to pay tax‘, NZ Tax Planning Report, 6, 1-6.
2009 KEATING, M. ‘NZ's Tax Disputes Procedure - Proposals for Reform‘, Taxation Today, 21, 31-40.
2009 KEATING, M. ‘'NZ's Tax Disputes Procedure - Taxpayers Rights‘, Taxation Today, 20, 31-39.
2009 KEATING, M. ‘NZ's Tax Disputes Procedure - Time for a Change‘, Taxation Today, 19, 32-40.
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Supreme Court Lays Down Tax Avoidance Law for First Time‘, NZ Tax Planning Report, 1, 1-9.
2009 KEATING, M. ELLIFFE, C. ‘Tax Avoidance-Still Waiting for Godot?‘, NZ Universities Law Review, 23, 3, 368-392.
2009 KEATING, M. MACLAREN, K. ‘The Settlement of Tax Disputes: The Commissioner is able but not willing‘, NZ Journal of Taxation Law and Policy, 15, 1-29.
2008 KEATING, M. ‘New Zealand's Tax Dispute Procedure -Time for a Change‘, New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law & Policy, 14
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Tax Consequences of Tranz Rail Insider Trading Settlement‘, New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 14
2007 KEATING, M. ‘A Unified Theory of Tax Avoidance‘, New Zealand Tax Planning Report, No 4 Nov 2007, p 1 - 8 .
2007 KEATING, M. ‘New Teeth for Tax Avoidance‘, New Zealand Tax Planning Report, No 3 July 2007, p 1 - 6.
2007 KEATING, M. ‘Tax Consequences of Employment Court Rulings in Employee/Contractor Cases‘, New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 13, p 115 - 120.
2007 KEATING, M. ‘Use of Commissioner's Powers During Litigation‘, New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law & Policy, 13, p 195 - 209.
2006 KEATING, M. ‘Calculating GST Adjustments - the way forward?‘, New Zealand Tax Planning Report, No 2 April 2006, p 9 - 13.
2005 KEATING, M. ‘Deemed Acceptance of Taxpayers' Notice of Proposed Adjustment‘, New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law & Policy , 11, p 397 - 406.
1998 KEATING, M. ‘Thats Entertainment‘, NZ Journal of Taxation Law & Policy, Brookers Vol 4, June
1997 KEATING, M. ‘If you dont use it you loose it‘, NZ Journal of Taxation Law & Policy, Brookers Vol 3, November
Books
1998 KEATING, M. ‘Business Law Handbook‘, CCH
Sections in Books
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Anti-Abuse: VAT / GST v Direct Taxation‘ In: Michael Lang, Peter Melz and Eleonor Kristoffersson (ed.), Value Added Tax and Direct Taxation., Amsterdam, IBFD, 443-481.
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Goods & Services Tax‘ In: Mark J Greening (ed.), New Zealand Taxation, Principles, Cases and Questions, New Zealand, Thomson Brookers, 887-964.
Conference Paper
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Anti-abuse: VAT/GST vs. direct taxation‘, International Network for Tax Research (INTR), Vienna, Australia, 26-28 March 2009
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Judicial Review of Tax Assessments in Australasia Hits a Dead End‘, Australian Law Teachers' Association (ALTA), Australia, 5-8 July 2009
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Developments in Tax Disputes - Time for a Change‘, NZICA Tax Conference, Oct 2008, Christchurch
2007 KEATING, M. ‘Can you keep a secret? A review of the Commissioner's obligations of Secrecy‘, NZICA Tax Conference, Oct 2007, Auckland
2006 KEATING, M. LENNARD, M. MACALLISTER, C. ‘Managing Disputes with IRD‘, Nov 2006, NZICA National Roadshow
Other
2010 KEATING, M. ‘Low-tax threshold fairest option for all‘, NZ Herald, 1 February 2010
2009 KEATING, M. ‘Big banks face $2.4b bill from the taxman‘, NZ Herald, 17 July 2009
2009 KEATING, M. ‘BNZ's $645m defeat sets NZ tax record‘, NZ Herald, 17 July 2009
2009 KEATING, M. ELLIFFE, C. ‘Tax Avoidance and the Supreme Court‘, Commercial Law Public seminar, University of Auckland Business School, 29 June 2009
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Court supports IRD over disclosure‘, NZ Herald, 21 April 2008
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Tax Rebate would get Parents' vote‘, NZ Herald, 12 Feb 2008
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Taxing Issue of Peters' $100,000 Donation‘, NZ Herald, 23 July 2008
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Trinity decision lesson for all‘, NZ Herald, 18 June 2008
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Trusts here to stay‘, The Independant, 27 November 2008
2008 KEATING, M. ‘Use of trusts offers no help for disgruntled creditors‘, NZ Herald, 26 Aug 2008
2007 KEATING, M. ‘NZ tax anomaly factor in boom‘, NZ Herald, 3 May 2007



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