Fiona Martin

About Fiona

Fiona Martin commenced working as an academic after several years as a lawyer both with the government (including the Attorney-General's Department) and in private practice.

Her expertise and research are in the taxation law area and in particular how it relates to charities and interacts with issues relating to human rights and traditional land owners. Fiona has published many articles in highly regarded international and local refereed journals on such issues as whether or not Australian should have a charities commission, taxation of indigenous charities and the inequity of the mining withholding tax. She has presented at many conferences on issues relating to taxation concessions applying to charities, the application of the GST particularly as it relates to charities and income tax and property development generally. She has also published a number of book chapters and a textbook in the revenue law area.

Dr Martin’s PhD analyses the income tax implications of mining payments to traditional Australian land owners. It has been awarded the CCH/ATTA prize for doctoral research and was published as a book by CCH in 2014.​​

Current Courses Taught

• TABL5582 Taxation of Business Entities

Research Grants

• ARC Early Career Research Grant 2016: “Cutting red tape around donations: A new model for deductible gifts” $292, 251
• ARC Linkage 2016: 'Garuwanga: Forming a Competent Authority to protect Indigenous knowledge' $244,000
• Centre For Social Impact, UNSW ‘Cutting Red Tape around donations: A New Model for Deductible Gifts’ $10,000
• 2009: UNSW Research Linkages Grant 'Liaising with Academics at the University of Hong Kong regarding Comparative issues in Charity Law'
• 2008-2009: UNSW Law Faculty Research Grant 'Taxation Issues for Indigenous Charities: Interviews'
• UNSW Law Faculty Grant 'The interrelationship between taxation, commercial and indigenous considerations for traditional land owners establishing entities to manage native title interests and commercial undertakings'

Memberships - Company Boards, Professional Associations

• Chartered Tax Adviser Taxation Institute
• Member Australasian Law Teachers Association
• Member Australasian Tax Teachers Association
• Member International Society for Third Sector Research
• Member Law and Society Association, USA

Media Releases

• Business School represented at the biggest Indigenous Business Networking Conference
• ARC Linkage Project grants 2016
• UNSW experts give their analysis of the 2016 Budget
• Experts available for the Federal Budget 2016
• Associate Professor Fiona Martin joins Working Party of Federal Board of Taxation
• Business School Researchers win $2 million in grants
• Did the 2013 budget share the pain?
• Will the budget deliver on burden sharing?
• Fiona Martin analyses native title benefits
• Are charities a vehicle for tax avoidance?

Awards

Research Prizes

• Wolters Kluwer/Australasian Tax Teachers Award for best doctrinal research on taxation law (publication of PhD as book Income Tax, Native Title and Mining Payments, 2014)
• Graham Hill Memorial Prize, International Fiscal Association for doctoral studies in comparative international tax (Fully funded participation in the IFA Congress and poster session Vancouver, Canada, 2009)

Teaching Awards

• QUT Law Faculty Commendation for teaching 2003
• QUT Vice-Chancellors Award for Excellence in the area of Teaching performance and Leadership, 1998
• Finalist Prime Minister’s National Awards for University Teaching, 1999