Research profile for Michelle Kirsten

 Michelle  Kirsten
Michelle Kirsten

Head of Finance and Accounting

Michelle Kirsten

Head of Finance and Accounting

Qualifications

  • MCom Taxation (University of Pretoria)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (Monash South Africa)
  • Bachelor of Business Science (Accounting) (Monash South Africa)

Research interests

  • Taxation
  • Financial Accounting
  • Higher Education

Biography

Michelle holds an MCom Taxation with a mini dissertation that explored the efficacy of the South African Anti-Avoidance rules in comparison to its counterpart in New Zealand. This dissertation won the 2022 SAIPA Accountancy Top Achievers Award in the Masters of Tax Category. She co-authored an article titled “Progressive tax: a proposal for customer loyalty programmes” (2019) which was published in the Pacific Accounting Review journal as well as co-authored an article titled “Did New Zealand get it right?: Lessons for the south African GAAR” (2022) which was published in the Journal of Australasian Tax Teachers Association. Currently Michelle is working on a paper for submission to a journal titled “South Africa’s National Health Insurance: Projected Impact of the Removal of Medical Tax Credits on Taxpayers”.

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