CO5120 - Taxation Law
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Law Office |
<b>Course or course code of students permitted to enrol:</b> Students enrolled in any postgraduate certificates, diplomas or degrees offered by the University are permitted to enrol in this subject. <b>Course or course code of students not permitted to enrol:</b> Students enrolled in any undergraduate qualifications offered by the University are not permitted to enrol in this subject.
This subject examines fundamental issues in the design of tax legislation, which arise in both developed and developing countries. The major tax instruments discussed will be individual and corporate income taxes. The course contrasts the policy choices evident in Australian legislation with choices made in selected other jurisdictions.
Learning Outcomes
- To develop an understanding of individual and corporate income tax topics, focussing on inclusions in the tax base; deductions; tax accounting; corporate tax systems; corporate distributions; corporate reorganisations and an outline of international aspects.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
- The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse.
| Prerequisites: | CO5119 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CO5110 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 7 | |
| Census Date 10-Jul-2009 | |
| Non-standard start/end 20-Jun-2009 to 31-Jul-2009 | |
| Face to face teaching 20-Jun-2009 to 19-Jul-2009 (Teaching over three weekends 20/21 June and 4/5 July and 18/19 July) | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Stephen Graw. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); other exams (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | None |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 5 | |
| Census Date 08-May-2009 | |
| Face to face teaching 02-May-2009 to 14-Jun-2009 (Teaching over three weekends 2/3 and 23/24 May and 13/14 June) | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
| Lecturer: | Assoc. Professor Justin Dabner. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); other exams (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | None |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 17-Apr-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); other exams (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | None |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 14-Aug-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); other exams (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | None |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 11-Dec-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); other exams (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | None |
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