Rate My Professor Swapna Verma

Swapna Verma, LLM (Taxation), Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, LLB, and BSc (Psychology), serves as a Lecturer and PhD candidate in Taxation Law within the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash Business School, Monash University. She holds the position of Director of Undergraduate Coursework, where she leads undergraduate taxation law units, delivers lectures across various undergraduate and postgraduate taxation law courses, and oversees the accreditation of these units with key professional bodies including the Tax Practitioners Board, Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand, and CPA Australia. A qualified lawyer, Verma previously practiced in commercial law firms and a Big 4 professional services firm before transitioning to a full-time academic role. Her commitment to teaching excellence has earned her several accolades, including the Monash Business School Dean’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence Award in 2020, the Department’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence Award in 2020, and being a joint winner of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association’s ‘Best Teaching Presentation’ Award. Additionally, she has received multiple Dean’s “purple letters” recognizing her leadership in the Business Taxation and Taxation Law units, which have been rated as top-performing by students within the school.

Verma’s research interests encompass international tax law, tax policy, and educational scholarship, with a particular emphasis on hybrid-flexible learning modalities. As an early-career researcher, her PhD investigates the adaptability of Australia’s individual tax residence rules amid rising global workforce mobility, advocating for modernization of the legal framework to address contemporary challenges such as remote work, international freelancing, and digital nomadism. Her scholarly contributions include co-authoring the textbook Australian Taxation, 3rd edition (2024, John Wiley & Sons), the article “Australia’s backpacker tax: a problem child in Australia’s residence-based taxation system” published in the New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy (2024), “What is the future of individual tax residence under the proposed rules?” in the Australian Tax Forum (2023, with John Minas), and the book chapter “One university’s hybrid-flexible ‘StudyFlex’ course experience in Melbourne, Australia: Lessons learned and further opportunities and challenges in the wake of COVID-19” (2019). Verma has presented her work at numerous Australian and international conferences, contributing to discussions in tax law and pedagogy.