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Taxing for a healthy society - Boyd Swinburn, Cliona Ni Mhurchu & Mark Bowler-Smith - 6 October - AKL

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Sugar tax, carbon tax, petrol tax, alcohol tax, tobacco tax, capital gains tax, are each proposed for the public good. They are promoted in a time when others seek less regulation and less taxation. They represent evidence based proposals for good social policy in a context where the cost of doing nothing must be included in the equation.

Professor Boyd Swinburn

Boyd Swinburn is the Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health at the University of Auckland and Alfred Deakin Professor and Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention at Deakin University in Melbourne. He trained as a specialist endocrinologist and has conducted research in metabolic, clinical and public health aspects of obesity. His major research interests are centred on community and policy actions to prevent childhood and adolescent obesity, and reduce, what he has coined, the ‘obesogenic’ food environment.

He is Co-Chair of the World Obesity/Policy & Prevention (formerly known as IOTF) and was President of the Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) from 2005-7. He has also contributed to over 30 WHO consultations and reports on obesity, authored over 300 publications and given over 400 presentations. Through these efforts he is significantly contributing to national and global efforts to reduce the obesity epidemic.

Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu

Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu leads a Population Nutrition Research Programme at the National Institute for Health Innovation. She trained in Human Nutrition and Dietetics at Trinity College Dublin and worked as a Clinical Dietitian in the UK before doing her PhD in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Southampton. Her research programme evaluates effectiveness of population dietary interventions and policies, such as food taxes/subsidies, nutrition labels, healthier food reformulation and restrictions on food marketing. Current studies use a range of innovative technologies to deliver or evaluate interventions including smartphone apps, a virtual supermarket, and automated wearable cameras. Cliona serves on a number of national and international advisory committees including Ministry of Health Childhood Obesity Technical Advisory Group, Heart Foundation Food and Nutrition Advisory Group, Food Standards Australia New Zealand Social Sciences & Economics Advisory Group, and the New Zealand Health Star Rating Labelling Advisory Group.

Dr Mark Bowler-Smith

Mark is a Senior Lecturer in the Commercial Law Department at the University of Auckland. He has a PhD in Tax Law from the University of Cambridge and a Masters in Tax Law from the University of London. He is also a qualified UK barrister with experience in providing legal services.

Mark’s research focuses on all aspects of tax law and policy. Pertinent to this discussion, Mark has published extensively on the regulatory effect of taxation both in theoretical and practical terms. For example, his book The Taxing Road to Sustainable Growth: Resource Productivity and Corporate Taxation (IBFD Publications, 2013) and his article “Corporate Income Tax: What is it good for?” Australian Tax Forum (2015) both consider regulatory issues in relation to the corporate income tax.

When
October 6th, 2016 from  6:30 PM to  8:00 PM
Location
1 McDonald Street
Auckland Polish Society
Morningside
Auckland, AUK 1025
New Zealand