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Graduate Diploma in Tax (187AA) // Course structure
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Miranda Stewart
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Melbourne Law School
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Course structure
Students must complete four subjects from the prescribed lists. 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.
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
- 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 in Practice
- 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)
- Current Issues in International Tax
- International Tax: Anti-Avoidance
- International Tax: Principles and Structure (A)
- International Taxation in the US
- Special Issues in Tax Treaties
- Tax Reform and Development
- Tax Treaties (A)
- Tax Treaty Interpretation
- 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 |
April (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (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 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
October (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | No longer available | |
| LAWS90055 | Not-for-Profits, Law and the State | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70008 | Corporate Tax B | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70031 | Goods and Services Tax Principles | May (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70399 | Mineral and Petroleum Tax | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70332 | Sport and Taxation | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70130 | State Taxes and Duties | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90030 | Tax and Crime | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70005 | Tax Avoidance and Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70266 | Tax Litigation | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70319 | Tax Policy | August (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70318 | Tax Practice: Writing Effectively | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90031 | Taxation of Major Projects | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70331 | Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70049 | Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70267 | Taxation of Superannuation | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70333 | Taxation of Trusts | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWS90131 | Tax and Innovation | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90159 | Tax in Practice | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
International and Comparative Tax subjects
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWS70009 | Comparative Corporate Tax | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70353 | Comparative International Tax | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| LAWS70410 | Comparative Tax Avoidance | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70162 | Tax Reform and Development | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90017 | International Tax: Anti-avoidance | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70006 | International Tax: Principles, Structure |
May (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| LAWS70124 | International Taxation in the US | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90050 | Special Issues in Tax Treaties | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS70146 | Tax Treaties | April (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 2019 | 12.5 |
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWS90132 | Tax Treaty Interpretation | Not available in 2019 | 12.5 |
| LAWS90158 | Current Issues in International Tax | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Last updated: 18 December 2020