Dr Bill Orow

• BEc (Monash)
• LLB (Hons) (Monash)
• LLM (Monash)
• PhD (UNSW) Taxation
• Barrister-at-law (Vic)

Bill is a barrister and a member of a number of panels and organisations including the International Fiscal Association, the ATAX Panel of Experts and the Revenue Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria.

He completed his PhD at the University of NSW Law School in 1999. His thesis on tax avoidance, supervised by Professor Robert Deutsch, has been published by Jordan Publishing Limited in London in July 2000 under the name General Anti Avoidance Rules: A Comparative International Analysis.

Teaching

Bill teaches a number of graduate subjects including anti-avoidance and finance, international taxation, CGT, GST and other indirect taxes, tax administration and taxation of trusts and partherships.

Research

Bill has conducted extensive research in a areas of taxation focusing on anti-avoidance and finance.

Recent publications and presentations

• Bill Orow, "Duty Added Understanding the Victorian land rich duty rules", Law Institute Journal, Law Institute of Victoria 80(3), 2006
• Bill Orow, "Superannuation plus practical taxation issues for commercial lawyers", Commercial Law Intensive Day, Law Institute of Victoria, 17 March 2005
• Bill Orow, "Comparative approaches to the interpretation of double tax conventions", Adelaide Law Review, 26:1, 73-102, 2005
• Bob Deutsch* (ATAX, UNSW), Danny Fischer* (solicitor) and Bill Orow, "Income Tax and GST Strategies Manual", 6th ed, Thomson ATP (Australian Tax Practice), Sydney, 250 pages, 2004
• Bill Orow, "Structured finance and the operation of general anti-avoidance rules", British Tax Review, 2004, Number 4, 410–435
• Bill Orow, "Comparative analysis of duties general anti-avoidance rules", Australian Tax Review, Vol 33, 204–215, 2004
• Bill Orow and Eu-Jin Teo, "Duties general anti-avoidance rules: lessons from income taxation", Journal of Australian Taxation, Monash University Department of Business Law and Taxation, 7:2, 251–297, 2004
• Bill Orow and Eu-Jin Teo, "Negotiating Victorian duties general anti-avoidance rules", Law Institute Journal, Law Institute of Victoria, 78:11, 31–34, 2004
• Bill Orow, "Transformation of the business tax system", Derivatives and Financial Instruments Journal, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam, 5:1, 18-23, 2003