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Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises (LAWS70049)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5Not available in 2022
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Small and medium business enterprises including high net worth families operating through groups of private companies, trusts and partnerships must deal with some of the most complex and challenging rules in the tax system, and face a high tax compliance and planning burden. This subject is aimed at tax professionals in general or those in specialist tax practice advising SMEs and high-wealth families. It equips participants with an advanced knowledge of tax rules and latest reforms for SMEs and high net worth families, integrating the technical law that participants learn in other subjects, including corporate tax, tax of trusts, capital gains tax and taxation of business and investment income. This subject involves consideration of complex and competing principles from numerous parts of the tax and other laws including indirect taxes, asset protection and estate and succession planning. It builds on the core content of other subjects, including Taxation of Business and Investment Income, Capital Gains Tax, Corporate Tax A, Taxation of Trusts and State Taxes. As a result, this subject may be best studied towards the end of your tax course.
This advanced subject is co-taught by leading practitioners with many years of experience advising the Australian SME and high net wealth families sector. They deliver an advanced, commercially essential subject through application of the tax law to topical case studies.
Principal topics include:
- Income tax and capital gains tax rules applicable to trusts, private companies and partnerships, when establishing a new business or making investments, its operation and ultimate sale, winding up or business succession
- Tax issues for private companies and shareholders, including Div 7A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth)
- Tax issues relating to remuneration by and financing of SMEs
- Tax concessions for SMEs, in particular the capital gains tax small business concessions
- Trust streaming, trust loss and capital distribution rules affecting SMEs
- Tax integrity and anti-avoidance rules for SMEs, including trust anti-avoidance rules
- Tax planning for SME structuring, asset protection and estate and business succession, incorporating key state and federal tax, asset protection and estate issues
- Asset protection and some estate and succession planning for SME entities, their owners and high wealth families.
Intended learning outcomes
A student who has successfully completed this subject will:
- Have an advanced and integrated understanding of the tax law applicable to entities used by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and high net wealth families, with a particular focus on taxation of private companies trusts, partnerships and unincorporated joint ventures
- Be able to critically examine, analyse, interpret and assess the effectiveness of these tax rules
- Be an engaged participant in debate regarding the tax law applicable to entities used by SMEs and high net wealth families.
- Have a sophisticated appreciation of the factors and processes driving reform of the tax framework
- Have an advanced understanding of application of tax to the different legal entities used by SMEs and high net wealth families.
- Have a detailed understanding of key planning and structuring issues for SMEs and high net work families.
- Have the cognitive and technical skills to generate critical and creative ideas relating to taxation of SMEs and high net wealth families.and to critically evaluate them
- Have the cognitive and technical skills to independently examine, research and analyse the practical application of the tax rules applying to SMEs and high net wealth families.
- Have the communication skills to clearly articulate and convey complex information regarding taxation of SMEs and high net wealth families.to relevant specialist and non-specialist audiences
- Be able demonstrate autonomy, expert judgment and responsibility as a practitioner and learner in the field of taxation of SMEs and high net wealth families.
Last updated: 12 November 2022