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Master of Tax (742AB) // Course structure
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Melbourne Law School
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Coordinator
Associate Professor Sunita Jogarajan and Associate Professor Michael Kobetsky
Course structure
Students must complete eight subjects in total. All international students are required to undertake Foundations of Tax Law offered as an intensive in Semester 1 and 2. This subject provides a necessary grounding in Australian common law and statutory law of taxation, enabling a comparison with students’ home country tax systems. It provides the foundation for successful study in the other tax subjects studied in the course.
Students must complete at least six subjects from the prescribed lists and may select up to two subjects from those offered in the Master of Commercial Law.
Tax Practitioners Board
The subject marked (I) is approved as an introductory subject, and subjects marked (A) are approved as advanced subjects for participant accreditation as a tax agent with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB). For further information about approved courses, consult the list at www.tpb.gov.au. For information about applying the TPB ‘mix and match’ approach, please consult TPB Information Sheet TPB(I) 06/2011 at www.tpb.gov.au.
Tax subjects
- Capital Gains Tax: Problems in Practice (A)
- Corporate Tax A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity) (A)
- Foundations of Tax Law (I)
- Taxation of Business and Investment Income (A)
Specialist Tax subjects
- Charity and Not-for-Profit Law: Current Issues
- Charity Law for the 21st Century
- Corporate Tax B (Consolidation and Losses) (A)
- Goods and Services Tax Principles (A)
- Mineral and Petroleum Tax
- Sport and Taxation
- State Taxes and Duties
- Tax and Crime
- Tax Avoidance and Planning (A)
- Tax Law Research
- Tax Litigation
- Tax Policy
- Tax Practice: Writing Effectively (A)
- Taxation of Major Projects
- Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions (A)
- Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises (A)
- Taxation of Superannuation (A)
- Taxation of Trusts (A)
International and Comparative Tax subjects
- Comparative Corporate Tax (A)
- Comparative International Tax
- Comparative Tax Avoidance (A)
- Fiscal Reform and Development
- International Tax: Anti-Avoidance
- International Tax: Principles and Structure (A)
- International Taxation in the US
- Special Issues in Tax Treaties
- Tax Treaties (A)
- Trade and Tax Policy
- Transfer Pricing: Practice and Problems (A)
- UK International Tax
Subject options
Tax subjects
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWS70081 | Capital Gains Tax: Problems in Practice |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
August (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LAWS70024 | Corporate Tax A |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LAWS70323 | Foundations of Tax Law |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LAWS70002 | Tax of Business and Investment Income |
February (On Campus - Parkville)
April (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LAWS90130 | Tax Administration | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Specialist Tax subjects
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWS70191 | Charity and Not-for-Profit Law | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90055 | Charity Law for the 21st Century | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70008 | Corporate Tax B | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70031 | Goods and Services Tax Principles | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70399 | Mineral and Petroleum Tax | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70332 | Sport and Taxation | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70130 | State Taxes and Duties | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS90030 | Tax and Crime | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70005 | Tax Avoidance and Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70440 | Tax Law Research | No longer available | |
| LAWS70266 | Tax Litigation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70319 | Tax Policy | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70318 | Tax Practice: Writing Effectively | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90031 | Taxation of Major Projects | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70331 | Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions | October (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70049 | Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70267 | Taxation of Superannuation | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70333 | Taxation of Trusts | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS90131 | Tax and Innovation | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
International and Comparative Tax subjects
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWS70009 | Comparative Corporate Tax | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70353 | Comparative International Tax | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70410 | Comparative Tax Avoidance | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70162 | Tax Reform and Development | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS90017 | International Tax: Anti-avoidance | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70006 | International Tax: Principles, Structure |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LAWS70124 | International Taxation in the US | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90050 | Special Issues in Tax Treaties | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70146 | Tax Treaties | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70465 | Trade and Tax Policy | No longer available | |
| LAWS70203 | Transfer Pricing: Practice and Problems | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS90054 | UK International Tax | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90132 | Tax Treaty Interpretation | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Last updated: 18 December 2020