About us
The New Zealand Centre for Taxation (NZCT) is Aotearoa’s | New Zealand’s first centre focused on taxation research and scholarship. It is a joint enterprise with the Department of Commercial Law and will be situated in Auckland Law School.
The NZCT primarily aims to facilitate interdisciplinary research that focuses on the interaction between taxation law and business, as well as between taxation law and society, the economy, and the political environment.
The Centre is dedicated to fostering and strengthening connections with the local legal, accountancy and business community, and tax policy makers, as well as collaborating with other tax research centres and tax scholars in New Zealand and overseas.
The NZCT also seeks to promote teaching and research which falls within the remit of the Centre. This includes both the business law elements of the Master of Laws (LLM) and its associated programme, the Master of Legal Studies (MLS). Another important area of law is studied in the Master of Taxation Studies (MTaxS) programme, which is designed for both law and commerce graduates who intend to make tax advocacy or tax consulting their career and who wish to extend their understanding of the theoretical issues and legal structures that underpin the taxation system.
The centre also aims to establish and promote publications in the field of law and business.