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Miranda Stewart
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Course structure
Students must complete 50 credit points 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.
Note: Most subjects in the MLM program are 12.5 credit points each. Check individual subject handbook entries for confirmation.
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
- Administrative Law in Tax Matters
- 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
- Income Tax Compliance and Enforcement
- 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 | November (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70323 | Foundations of Tax Law |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
July (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70002 | Tax of Business and Investment Income |
Semester 1 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
September (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS90130 | Tax Administration | Not available in 2020 | 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 | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70008 | Corporate Tax B | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70031 | Goods and Services Tax | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70399 | Mineral and Petroleum Tax | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70332 | Sport and Taxation | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70130 | State Taxes and Duties | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90030 | Tax and Crime | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70005 | Tax Avoidance and Planning | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70266 | Tax Litigation | Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70319 | Tax Policy | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70318 | Tax Practice: Writing Effectively | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS90031 | Taxation of Major Projects | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70331 | Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70049 | Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70267 | Taxation of Superannuation | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70333 | Taxation of Trusts | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90131 | Tax and Innovation | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS90159 | Tax in Practice | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS90167 | Administrative Law in Tax Matters | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
International and Comparative Tax subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LAWS70009 | Comparative Corporate Tax | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70353 | Comparative International Tax | December (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS70410 | Comparative Tax Avoidance | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70162 | Tax Reform and Development | March (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LAWS90017 | International Tax: Anti-avoidance | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70006 | International Tax: Principles, Structure |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
November (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
LAWS70124 | International Taxation in the US | July (Online) |
12.5 |
LAWS90050 | Special Issues in Tax Treaties | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS70146 | Tax Treaties | June (Online) |
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 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS90132 | Tax Treaty Interpretation | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS90158 | Current Issues in International Tax | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
LAWS90176 | Income Tax Compliance and Enforcement | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
Last updated: 13 November 2021