Associate Professor Sylvia Villios

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2023 - ongoing	Associate Professor	University of Adelaide
  2017 - 2022	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide
  2008 - 2016	Lecturer	University of Adelaide
  2007 - 2010	Associate	Lynch Meyer Lawyers
  2003 - 2006	Solicitor	Minter Ellison Lawyers SA/NT

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2022	Award	Dean's Award, Research Impact, Adelaide Law School, 2022	University of Adelaide	Australia	-
  2021	Award	2021 Executive Dean of the University of Adelaide Faculty of the Professions Commendation for Excellence in Research Engagement and Impact	University of Adelaide	Australia	-
  2019	Award	Bonython Prize	University of Adelaide	Australia	-
  2019	Award	Finalist, Lawyer's Weekly Women in Law Awards, Academic category	Lawyer's Weekly	Australia	-
  2016	Award	Executive Dean of the University of Adelaide Faculty of the Professions Commendation for Excellence in Research	University of Adelaide	Australia	-
  2016	Achievement	Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence	University of Adelaide	Australia	-
  2011	Award	Winner of the Best Presenter Award	-	-	-

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2005 - 2005	Law Society of South Australia	Australia	GDLP
  2001 - 2005	University of Adelaide	Australia	B Com. (Accounting)
  2001 - 2005	University of Adelaide	Australia	LL.B (with Hons)

• Postgraduate Training

  Date	Title	Institution	Country
  2014 - 2016	PhD	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2009 - 2012	M. Tax	University of New South Wales	Australia
  2005 - 2005	GDLP	Law Society of South Australia	Australia

• Certifications

  Date	Title	Institution name	Country
  2005	CTA	Taxation Institute of Australia	-
  2005	Barrister and Solicitor	Supreme Court of South Australia	-

• Research Interests

  Law Taxation Accounting Taxation Law

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2022	Villios, S., & Jay, O. (2022). Competing policies and claims when enforcing testamentary business succession promises. Journal of Equity, 16(3), 262-292.
  2022	Villios, S., Giancaspro, M., & Graves, C. (2022). A Qualitative Study of the use of Discretionary Trusts in Small Business and Family Enterprise. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 6(3).
  2022	Price, L., Richards, E., Villios, S., & Giancaspro, M. (2022). BETTER TOGETHER: MICROBOARDS AND SUPPORTED DECISION-MAKING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide Law Review, 43(1), 131-166. Scopus1
  2022	Villios, S., & Pandos, O. C. (2022). A REVIEW OF ADVANCE CARE DIRECTIVES AND ENDURING POWERS OF ATTORNEY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA: PRESERVING AUTONOMY AND PREVENTING ABUSE. Adelaide Law Review, 43(1), 225-269.
  2021	Plater, D., Golding, G., & Villios, S. (2021). SALRI's Examination of Enduring Powers of Attorney: Charter for Abuse or Necessary Aspect of Daily Life?. Law Society Bulletin (SA), 43(6), 22-25.
  2021	Villios, S., & Rocca, V. (2021). Transfer pricing: past, present and future. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 6(1).
  2020	Villios, S., & Brown, D. (2020). Getting the priorities right: ATO garnishee notices in times of corporate distress. Australian Tax Forum: a journal of taxation policy, law and reform, 35(3), 368-390.
  2019	Villios, S., & Blissenden, M. (2019). Residence tests for individuals: impact of the Harding decision. Taxation in Australia, 54(6), 302-306.
  2019	Villios, S. (2019). Digitalisation and future tax policy design. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 5(5&6), 83-86.
  2018	Villios, S., & Williams, N. (2018). Family Provision Law, Adult Children and the Age of Entitlement. Adelaide Law Review, 39(2), 249-302. WoS2
  2018	Plater, D., & Villios, S. (2018). A review of family provision laws in South Australia: Distinguishing between the deserving and undeserving. Bulletin of the Law Society of South Australia, 40(6), 34-35.
  2018	Villios, S. (2018). A Review of Family Provision Laws in South Australia: Distinguishing between the Deserving and Undeserving. Law Society of South Australia.
  2017	Villios, S. (2017). The Court’s power to grant a stay and the interaction with the commissioner’s garnishee power. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 4(2), 26-31.
  2017	Villios, S., Kenny, P., & Blissenden, M. (2017). Wine options of Australian tax reform. eJournal of Tax Research, 15(1), 22-50.
  2016	Villios, S. (2016). Director penalty notices - promoting a culture of good corporate governance and of successful corporate rescue post insolvency. Revenue Law Journal, 25(1), 1-21.
  2016	Villios, S. (2016). An evaluation of Australia's director penalty regime. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 3(6), 107-113.
  2016	Villios, S. (2016). Tax collection, recovery and enforcement issues for insolvent entities. Australian Tax Forum, 31(3), 425-453.
  2016	Villios, S. (2016). Will drafting - Clarifying the scope of the duty owed by a solicitor to a client and to the intended beneficiaries in Australia. Legal Ethics, 19(2), 328-330. DOI
  2015	Villios, S., Kenny, P., & Blissenden, M. (2015). Residency and Australians working overseas: can be an expensive lesson in tax law. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 2(9-10), 188-191.
  2015	Villios, S., Blissenden, M., & Kenny, P. (2015). Characterising expenditure as revenue or capital - is the distinction becoming clearer?. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 2(9-10), 192-193.
  2015	Villios, S., Blissenden, M., & Kenny, P. (2015). Are changes to negative gearing in Australia imminent?. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 2(9-10), 195-199.
  2015	Villios, S. (2015). Improving the students' tax experience: a team-based learning approach for undergraduate accounting students. Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association, 10(1), 43-65. WoS7
  2015	Villios, S. (2015). The insolvency priority contest - garnishee notices versus general law fixed interest and PPSA security interests. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 2(6), 112-118.
  2015	Villios, S. (2015). 'A "better tax system" is a simpler tax system'. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 2(3), 61-63.
  2014	Villios, S. (2014). 'Allowable deductions, cost base of CGT assets and the GAAR: a minefield for taxpayers and their advisers'. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 1(5), 94.
  2014	Blissenden, M., Kenny, P., Villios, S., & Xynas, L. (2014). Self-education expenses: some thoughts for taxpayers and their advisers. Australian tax law bulletin, 1(4), 80-82.
  2014	Villios, S., Xynas, L., Kenny, P., & Bissenden, M. (2014). Reducing the company tax rate and abolishing the MRRT: a step forward or back?. Australian Tax Law Bulletin, 1(6-10), 109-115.
  2014	Villios, S. (2014). The legislative interface between the creation of a liability to tax and the right to challenge that liability. Australian Tax Forum, 29(3), 551-578.
  2014	Villios, S. (2014). The Commissioner's power to issue creditor's statutory demands: implications for corporate rescue post insolvency. Australian Tax Review, 43(3), 187-200. WoS2
  2012	Villios, S., Carbone, D., Tretola, J., & Callea, P. (2012). The capital gains tax implications of buy-sell agreements. Australian Tax Review, 41(2), 100-112.
  2012	Villios, S. (2012). An inherited wealth tax for Australia? The Henry Recommendation 25 for a bequests tax. Revenue Law Journal, 22, 8-1-8-10.
  2011	Tretola, J., Villios, S., & Callea, P. (2011). GST and residential premises - which intention is relevant?. Revenue Law Journal, 21(1), 1-16.
  2011	Villios, S. (2011). Australia: Impact of Tax Review Report and the Henry Review on Self-Managed Superannuation Funds. The Business Review, Cambridge, 18(1), 41-47.
  2011	Villios, S. (2011). Measuring the tax gap of business taxpayers in Australia. Revenue Law Journal, 21(1), 1-21.
  2011	Villios, S. (2011). ‘Australia: Impact of the Tax Review Report and the Henry Review on Self-Managed Superannuation Funds’. The Business Review Cambridge, 18(1), 41.
  2010	Villios, S. (2010). Australian GST and Residential Property - Uncertainty Abounds. International VAT Monitor, 6, 423-427.
  2010	Varzaly, J., & Villios, S. (2010). Judicial reconsideration of the nature of directors' duties in Australia. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 21(2), 63-67.
  2009	Villios, S., & Varzaly, J. (2009). The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin, Nov/Dec, 378-387.
  2009	Villios, S., & Varzaly, J. (2009). Extending the commercial reach of charitable institutions - the High Court case of Word Investments Ltd. Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin, May/June, 169-175.
  -	Villios, S., Blissenden, M., & Kenny, P. (n.d.). Australia’s Tax Law Policy of the Past and that of the Post Digital Revolution. Revenue Law Journal, 28(1). DOI

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2023	Giancaspro, M., Golding, G., Nosworthy, B., Brown, D., Viven-Wilksch, J., Wawryk, A., . . . Zito, P. (2023). Contemporary Australian Business Law. Cambridge University Press.
  2021	MACKENZIE, M. B. P. K. S. V. M. B. J. H. G. (2021). AUSTRALIAN TAX 2021.
  2020	Kenny, P., Blissenden, M., & Villios, S. (2020). Australian Tax 2020. LexisNexis.
  2019	Villios, S., Kenny, P., & Blissenden, M. (2019). Australian Tax 2019. Chatswood, NSW, Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  2018	Kenny, P., Blissenden, M., & Villios, S. (2018). Australian Tax 2019. Australia: LexisNexis.
  2018	Kenny, P., Blissenden, M., & Villios, S. (2018). Australian Tax 2019. Australia: LexisNexis.
  2017	Kenny, P., Blissenden, M., & Villios, S. (2017). Australian Tax 2017 (8th ed.). Lexis Nexis.
  2016	Villios, S., Kenny, P., & Blissenden, M. (2016). Australian Tax 2016. LexisNexis.
  2015	Kenny, P., Blissenden, M., & Villios, S. (2015). Australian tax 2015. Australia: LexisNexis.
  2015	Kobetsky, M., Brown, C., Fisher, R., Peacock, C., Villios, S., & Gillies, P. (2015). Income Tax Text: Materials and Essential Cases (9th edition ed.). Annandale, NSW: Federation Press.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2023	Viven-Wilksch, J. (2023). The Australian legal system. In M. Giancaspro, G. Golding, B. Nosworthy, D. Brown, A. Wawryk, S. Villios, . . . J. Viven-Wilksch (Eds.), Contemporary Australian Business Law (1 ed., pp. 1-20). Cambridge University Press.
  2023	Viven-Wilksch, J., Golding, G., & Giancaspro, M. (2023). Contracts: parties and terms. In M. Giancaspro, G. Golding, B. Nosworthy, D. Brown, J. Viven-Wilksch, A. Wawryk, . . . P. Zito (Eds.), Contemporary Australian Business Law (1 ed., pp. 104-125). Cambridge University Press.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2021	Villios, S. (2021). Wills and Estate Planning. In Helping Hand Aged Care Seminar.
  2021	Villios, S. (2021). Wills and Estate Planning. In Helping Hand Aged Care Seminar.

• Conference Items

  Year	Citation
  2022	Villios, S. (2022). Bankruptcy and Tax. Poster session presented at the meeting of University of Adelaide, Bankruptcy Trustees Forum.
  2021	Villios, S. (2021). Succession Law Hot Topic. Poster session presented at the meeting of STEP SA Not the Trusts Symposium Event.
  2021	Villios, S. (2021). Enduring Powers of Attorney in South Australia: A Case for Reform. Poster session presented at the meeting of Law Society of South Australia Forum.
  2021	Villios, S. (2021). Voluntary Guidelines for Best Practice Powers of Attorney. Poster session presented at the meeting of STEP SA Succession Law Conference.
  2021	Villios, S. (2021). Tax, Succession and Family Trusts. Poster session presented at the meeting of Oracle Insolvency Services Small Business Symposium.
  2019	Villios, S. (2019). Powers of Attorney and Advance Care Directives in South Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Elder Abuse Legal Symposium, Legalwise. Adelaide.
  2019	Villios, S. (2019). Powers of Attorney and Advance Care Directives in South Australia: A call for reform. Poster session presented at the meeting of Mount Gambier Practitioner CPD.
  2019	Villios, S. (2019). The Use of Family Trusts in Small Business and Family Enterprise. Poster session presented at the meeting of Annual Tax Day 2019. University of Adelaide.
  2019	Villios, S. (2019). Familly Business Tax and Bankruptcy. Poster session presented at the meeting of Adelaide Law School Bankruptcy and Insolvency Day. University of Adelaide.
  2019	Villios, S. (2019). The Digital Revolution and the Changing Landscape of Tax Law Policy. Poster session presented at the meeting of Annual Tax Day 2018. University of Adelaide.
  2018	Villios, S. (2018). The role and operation of Family Provision Laws in South Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Adelaide.
  2018	Villios, S. (2018). Insolvency - The Impact of Garnishee Notices on Taxpayers. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australian Tax Teacher's Association Conference. University of New South Wales.
  2017	Villios, S. (2017). Tax collection, recovery and enforcement issues for taxpayers. Poster session presented at the meeting of Annual Tax Day 2017. University of Adelaide.
  2016	Villios, S. (2016). Tax collection, recovery and enforcement issues for insolvent entities. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2016 ATTA conference papers. Sydney: UNSW Business School.
  2015	Villios, S. (2015). Bankruptcy and Tax. Poster session presented at the meeting of Regulation of Corporations, Insolvency and Tax Research Unit, Bankruptcy Trustees Conference. Adelaide.
  2015	Villios, S. (2015). The Commissioner's Debt Collection Powers. Poster session presented at the meeting of Taxation Institute of Australia, Tax Roundtable.
  2014	Villios, S. (2014). The Impact of Taxation on Achieving Successful Corporate Rescue Post Insolvency. Poster session presented at the meeting of Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference. Adelaide.
  2014	Villios, S. (2014). The ATO's Role as a Creditor in a Corporate Insolvency: A Small Business Focus. Poster session presented at the meeting of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law Scholarship Conference. Adelaide.
  2013	Villios, S. (2013). An inherited wealth tax for Australia? The Henry Recommendation 25 for a bequests tax. Poster session presented at the meeting of The Management, Business, Accounting and Finance Research Conference, US.
  2011	Villios, S. (2011). Australia: Impact of the Tax Review Report and the Henry Review on Self-Managed Superannuation Funds. Poster session presented at the meeting of The Management, Business, Accounting and Finance Research Conference, US.
  2008	Villios, S. (2008). Sophisticated Super Strategies: Instalment Warrants and Other Current Issues: Tenants in Common Ownership. Poster session presented at the meeting of Taxation Institute of Australia Conference.
  2007	Villios, S. (2007). Superannuation Update - Taxation Institute of Australia, Institute of Chartered Accountants and National Institute of Accountants. Poster session presented at the meeting of Regional Seminar.

• Report for External Bodies

  Year	Citation
  2022	Plater, D., Brunacci, A., Nicholls, H., Holt, J., Okninski, M., Pandos, O., . . . Williams, J. (2022). 'Autonomy and Safeguarding are not Mutually Inconsistent': A Review of the Operation of the Ageing and Adult Safeguarding Act 1995 (SA) (17). South Australian Law Reform Institute.
  2021	Graves, C., Steffens, P., Villios, S., Giancaspro, M., & Gordon, S. (2021). An Investigation into the Performance of the MSME Sector in South Australia and the Utility of Government Programs Aimed at Supporting the Sector. Adelaide.
  2020	Villios, S., Plater, D., Jay, O., Evans, T., & Ireland, E. (2020). Riddles, mysteries and enigmas: The Common Law Forfeiture Rule (14). Adelaide: South Australian Law Reform Institute.
  2020	Villios, S., Plater, D., Golding, G., Pandos, O., Richards, B., Brunacci, A., . . . Nicholls, H. (2020). Valuable Instrument or Single Most Abused Legal Document in our Judicial System? A Review of the Role and Operation of Enduring Powers of Attorney in South Australia (15). Adelaide: South Australian Law Reform Institute.
  2020	Villios, S., Plater, D., Williams, J., Golding, G., Richards, B., Brunacci, A., & Pandos, O. (2020). Review of the Role and Operation of Powers of Attorney in South Australia. Adelaide: SA Law Reform Institute.
  2017	Plater, D., & Villios, S. (2017). Who may inspect a will (10). Adelaide: South Australian Law Reform Institute.
  2017	Detmold, N., Plater, D., Villios, S., Williams, N., & Moulds, S. (2017). 'Distinguishing between the Deserving and the Undeserving': Family Provision Laws in South Australia (9). Adelaide: South Australian Law Reform Institute.

• Internet Publications

  Year	Citation
  2021	Villios, S., & Brown, D. (2021). ATO Garnishee Notices: Frustrating Corporate Rescue Policy. Austaxpolicy: Tax and Transfer Policy Blog.

Sylvia teaches at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is currently the Course Coordinator of Income Tax Law course (LLB), Income Taxation M (PG) course, Income Tax III (UG) the Succession Law (LLB) course.

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024	Principal Supervisor	Business succession and retirement planning for small business in Australia? Are the current small business tax concessions sufficient for small businesses to adequately retire and businesses succession?	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Markus Troschke
  2024	Principal Supervisor	Are Death and Wealth Taxes the Solution to Achieving Vertical and Intergenerational Equity in Australia?	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Simon Headland

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2019 - 2021	Co-Supervisor	Multinational Corporate Tax Avoidance In Australia & Australia’s Anti-Avoidance Law	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Max James Bruce
  2017 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Pursuing equity in the Australian superannuation system.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr John Harrison

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2021 - ongoing	Chair	South Australian Engagement Committee	The Tax Institute	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	Member	National Engagement Committee	The Tax Institute	Australia
  2018 - ongoing	Board Member	South Australian State Council	Taxation Institute of Australia	Australia
  2018 - ongoing	Board Member	National Superannuation Technical Committee	Taxation Institute of Australia	Australia
  2005 - ongoing	Member	Technical committee	Taxation Institute of Australia	Australia

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2005 - ongoing	Member	Law Society of South Australia	Australia
  2005 - ongoing	Member	Taxation Institute of Australia	Australia
  2005 - ongoing	Member	National Institute of Accountants	Australia

• Consulting/Advisories

  Date	Institution	Department	Organisation Type	Country
  2018 - ongoing	University of Adelaide	Adelaide Law School	Advocacy	Australia
  2015 - ongoing	University of Adelaide	Law School	Legislative and political	Australia

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2015 - ongoing	Editor	Adelaide Law Review	-	Australia
  2014 - ongoing	Editor	Australian Tax Law Bulletin, Lexis Nexis	-	Australia

• Offices Held

  Date	Office Name	Institution	Country
  2022 - ongoing	Co-Director Regulation of Corporations, Insolvency and Taxation (ROCIT) research unit	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	Chair, SA Engagement Committee	The Tax Institute	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	Committee member, National Engagement Committee	The Tax Institute	Australia
  2017 - ongoing	Committee Member of the National Superannuation Committee	The Taxation Institute	Australia
  2017 - ongoing	State Councillor	The Taxation Institute	Australia
  2017 - ongoing	Technical Committee Member	The Taxation Institute	Australia
  2014 - 2022	Head of the taxation sub-group of the Regulation of Corporations, Insolvency and Taxation (ROCIT) research unit	University of Adelaide	Australia

• Position: Associate Professor
• Phone: 83137223
• Email: sylvia.villios@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ligertwood, floor 4
• Org Unit: Adelaide Law School