School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Advanced Taxation Law
  • Unit Code

    LAW3608
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Prafula Raychand PEARCE

Description

This Unit develops further understanding of the taxation concepts introduced in Income Tax Framework II (LAW2410) and in Taxation Law (LAW3109). The aim of this unit is to give students a basic understanding of the different business entities, the method and impact of taxation on each different entity, and the advantages/disadvantages of each entity as a business/tax planning vehicle.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from LAW2410, LAW3109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse some tax planning techniques.
  2. Analyse the different business entities, the method of taxation and the advantages/disadvantages of the use of each entity as a business/tax vehicle.
  3. Determine the issues involved in tax administration.
  4. Discuss how the tax avoidance provisions operate to impact on income tax decision making.
  5. Identify some international aspects of taxation.

Unit Content

  1. Administration aspect of taxation.
  2. Challenging an assessment.
  3. Choice of entity - income issues.
  4. Choice of entity - other issues Capital Gains Tax (CGT).
  5. Diverting personal services income.
  6. General anti-avoidance provisions - Part IVA.
  7. Relief from international double taxation.
  8. Small business entities.
  9. Tax offences and penalties.
  10. Tax planning techniques.
  11. Thin capitalisation.
  12. Transfer pricing.
  13. Trust structures; alternative use of trust structures.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will attend a weekly two hour lecture and one hour tutorial.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationTutorial Participation10%
AssignmentAssignment30%
ExaminationFinal Examination60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationTutorial Participation10%
AssignmentAssignment30%
ExaminationFinal Examination60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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