Craig Elliffe

Craig is a professor specialising in taxation in the Law Faculty. Craig was appointed to a chair in 2008 after 14 years as a tax partner at KPMG and 9 years as a tax partner at Chapman Tripp. Craig’s research areas are in the field of international tax, corporate tax and tax avoidance.

He is the author of International and Cross-Border Taxation in New Zealand (Thomson Reuters and now in its second edition), which was awarded the JF Northey best law book award in 2015, and Dividend Imputation: Practice and Procedure (Lexis) and has written numerous articles and other materials on tax. He is the Director of the MTaxS programme (the leading postgraduate tax course in New Zealand).

He was a member of the Government's Tax Working Group (TWG) in 2018/19.