Dr Arun  Advani

Dr Arun Advani

Visiting Senior Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Tax Compliance, Tax Design

About me

Arun Advani is an Assistant Professor at the  University of Warwick and Impact Director of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His work focuses on issues of tax compliance and tax design, including taxation at the top of the income distribution and the taxation of 'non-doms', as well as taxation issues in low income countries. His work has been quoted across the media, including the FT, Times, Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, Sun, and Mirror. His work on measurement of the UK's "Tax Gap" has also been cited by HMRC and by the Office for Statistics Regulation. 

Recent Publications

  • Trevisan, F., Vaughan, M. & Vromen, A. (2025). Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy. University of Michigan Press. 
  • Vaughan, M. & Schieferdecker, D. (2025), 'Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”', International Journal of Communication, 19 (1), 348-369 
  • Vaughan, M., & Kerr, S. (2025). Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication. Visual Communication.
  • Vaughan, M., Gruber, J. B., & Langer, A. I. (2025). The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze. New Media & Society, 27(2), 632-654.