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Name:                    Domenic Carbone

Location:                Room 4.16,     Building: Law School

Telephone:             8313 4759

Email:                    domenic.carbone@adelaide.edu.au

Course Website:    

This course is designed to:

1. Provide students with an understanding of the Australian income tax system.
2. Provide knowledge of fundamental concepts of Australian income tax law.
3. Enable students to develop experience in identifying tax issues and applying the income tax law to arrive at reasoned solutions to problems.

Text Books

Income Tax Law Study Guide 2014 (CCH)

Australian Master Tax Guide 2014 (CCH)

Core Tax Legislation 2014 (CCH)

Readings

The “Income Tax Law Study Guide 2014” topic summaries and outlines refer to further required reading from the “Australian Master Tax Guide 2014”. A Case Materials Booklet will also be made available that contains the essential tax cases that must be read.

References

2014 Australian Tax Handbook (Thomson Reuters)

Australian Taxation Law 2014, Woellner, Barkoczy, Murphy, Evans & Pinto, 24th ed (CCH)

Case Books

Australian Taxation Law Cases 2014, Krever (Thomson Reuters)

Australian Tax Casebook, Barkoczy 12th edition (CCH)

Useful Internet Websites
www.austlii.edu.au – Legislation and case law.
www.comlaw.gov.au – Commonwealth legislation.
www.ato.gov.au – Australian Taxation Office (eg ATO publications and brochures, Public Taxation Rulings and Determinations, ATO case decisions and administrative guidelines, Taxpayer Alerts, etc).
www.taxboard.gov.au – The Board of Taxation (Independent, non-statutory body established to advise the Government on the development and implementation of taxation legislation and the ongoing operation of the tax system).
http://www.treasury.gov.au/Policy-Topics/Taxation – Commonwealth Department of Treasury information on taxation.
taxreview.treasury.gov.au/content/Content.aspx?doc=html/home.htm – Australia’s future tax system.
www.igt.gov.au – Inspector General of Taxation.
www.taxinstitute.com.au – The Tax Institute (professional body of tax practitioners).

The Study Guide (read only version), the PowerPoint slides used in lectures and other material for the course, such as Tutorial questions, will be made available on MyUni throughout the semester.

The lectures will set out the approach to understanding the Income Tax Law and applying the different topics of the tax law to problems. Although attendance at lectures is not compulsory, it is highly recommended that students attend so that students get that understanding and familiarity with that approach to the topics.

Before a lecture, students are expected to have at least read the Study Guide topic summary or outline and PowerPoint slides for the topic being covered. The Study Guide topic summaries and outlines set out further reading prescribed from the Australian Master Tax Guide. After a lecture, students will need to do further reading of the sections of income tax legislation covered, and also the further reading prescribed from the Australian Master Tax Guide to confirm and expand their understanding of a topic.

Tutorials are a very important component of the way the course is taught. The Tutorial Questions will be made available throughout the semester and will be fairly simple at first, and will then progressively increase in complexity throughout the course.

The tutorials will usually comprise practical problem type questions in which the income tax law or “theory” from lectures is applied to arrive at a solution supported by appropriate reasoning. This process of applying the income tax law to arrive at a reasoned solution is critical to doing well in the assignment, the exam and the course.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

The University expects full-time students (i.e. those taking 12 units per semester) to devote a total of 48 hours per week to their studies. This means that you are expected to commit approximately 9 hours for a three-unit course of private study outside of your regular classes.

Students in this course are expected to attend all lectures throughout the semester plus one tutorial class each week.

Lectures will cover:

1    Introduction to Taxation, including income tax, capital gains tax, fringe benefits tax, and goods and services tax

2    Jurisdiction to Tax

3    Assessable Income, including taxation of capital gains and losses

4    Non-assessable Income

5    Deductions

6    Tax Accounting

7    Tax Treatment of Tax Entities

8    Anti-avoidance

9    Tax Administration

The assessment components are:

Tutorial Attendance – Quantitative: 10 out of 11 tutorials          5%

Not redeemable.

Learning objectives and outcomes being assessed: 1-3.

Tutorial Participation – Qualitative assessment                        5%

Not redeemable.

Learning objectives and outcomes being assessed: 1-3.

Online Test – Qualitative assessment                                       10%

Not redeemable.

Learning objectives and outcomes being assessed: 1-3.

Assignment – Optional essay                                                   25%

Individual (not group) and redeemable by a higher exam and tutorial attendance and participation only mark.

Due Date: To be advised

Learning objectives and outcomes being assessed: 1-3.

Final Exam

If optional assignment is submitted                                         55%

If no assignment is submitted                                                 80%

The exam will be 3hours and open book.

Learning objectives and outcomes being assessed: 1-3.

1. To gain a pass in the course, a mark of at least 50% overall is required. There is no requirement that a particular part of the assessment must be passed.
2. Examples of previous assessment (a sample exam) will be made available on the MyUni site.
3. Assessment marks prior to the final exam will be displayed on the course website. Students are encouraged to check their marks and notify the Lecturer-in-Charge of any discrepancies.
4. Legible hand-writing and the quality of English expression are considered to be integral parts of the assessment process. Marks may be deducted in the final examination because of poor hand-writing.
5. Students in this course may take into the examination an English or English-Foreign dictionary (paper only). The use of a calculator in the examination is permitted in this course.

To gain a mark of 5% for Tutorial Attendance, students must attend a minimum of 10 tutorials out of a total of 11 tutorials that will be held.

It is a student’s responsibility to ensure that their attendance at a tutorial is recorded by their tutor. This can be done by producing a student ID card and having the attendance noted on a class roll. However, a student's attendance will only be recorded if the student is present during the entire duration of a tutorial.

If a student does not attend at least 10 tutorials they will receive a NIL mark for this assessment component, unless the non-attendance is due to the student’s illness or exceptional personal circumstances. Such students must provide their tutor with a completed "Supporting Statement / Certification Form" that is part of the Replacement/Additional Assessment application available at:

Students relying on medical reasons must visit their medical practitioner, with that approved University form, and have the medical practitioner complete it. A normal doctor's certificate will not be accepted.

Assignment Guidelines including Referencing Details

The Communication Skills Guide will assist you to write and structure your assignments. A copy of the guide can also be downloaded from:

This publication also provides guidelines on a range of other important communication skills including writing essays. In preparing any written piece of assessment it is important to draw on the relevant ‘literature’ to support critical analysis. Also essential is to reference the literature used. Correct referencing is important because it identifies the source of the ideas and arguments that you present, and sometimes the source of the actual words you use, and helps to avoid the problem of plagiarism. (Further information on plagiarism is provided later in this course profile.) The Harvard system is widely used in the Business School. Guidelines for the use of this style of referencing can be found in the Communication Skills Guide.

Further assistance with referencing is available from the Faculty’s Learning Centre Support. The contact details are provided on page 4 of the Communication Skills Guide.

1. Students must retain a copy of all assignments submitted.
2. Students must attach an ‘Assignment Cover Sheet’, which is signed and dated before submission. Lecturers may withhold students’ results until such time as the student has signed the Assignment Cover Sheet.
3. Lecturers can refuse to accept assignments, which do not have a signed acknowledgement of the University’s policy on plagiarism.
4. For this course, students are required to hand in assignments via ‘Turn it in’ which is a computer programme that detects plagiarised work. Further information can be found at:

5. Students must not submit work for an assignment that has previously been submitted for this course or any other course without prior approval from the Lecturer-in-Charge.

Late Assignment Submission

Students are expected to submit their work by the due date to maintain a fair and equitable system. Extensions will generally only be given for medical or other serious reasons. All requests for extensions must be emailed to the lecturer in charge of the course before the due date. Each request will be assessed on its merits.

An assignment extension request based on illness or on exceptional personal circumstances must include the "Supporting Statement / Certification Form" that is part of the Replacement/Additional Assessment application available at:

Students applying for an extension based on medical reasons must visit their medical practitioner, with that approved University form, and have the medical practitioner complete it.   A normal doctor's certificate will not be accepted.

A late assignment (without prior arrangement) will be penalised by a 10% mark reduction for each day that it is late.

Return of Assignments

Lecturers aim to mark and return assignments to students within two (2) weeks of the due date with written feedback.



EXAMS
The exam is “open book” but you must not bring into the exam room any book belonging to the 成人大片 Libraries.  “Permitted Materials” in the exam room are the prescribed textbook or any other tax textbook, the legislation, course materials and handouts, your own  lecture and other notes written and prepared by you, and not prepared by or taken from someone else.  You may also bring into the exam room an English or English/foreign language dictionary (paper only), and calculator incapable of sending text.

It is each student's responsibility to read the examination timetable.  Misreading the timetable is not accepted as
grounds for granting a replacement/additional (sup) exam.


University staff are not permitted to provide examination times to students over the
telephone or in response to personal enquiries.

Examinations will be held only at the time and locations stated in the University’s Examination Timetable, so they may not be taken in another country.  Students should not make any arrangements to be absent until after the replacement/additional (sup) exam period.

The University Writing Centre provides academic learning and language development services and resources for local, international, undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students enrolled at the 成人大片.

Practical advice and strategies for students to master reading, writing, note-taking, time management, oral presentation skills, referencing techniques and exam preparation for success at university through seminars, workshops and individual consultations.

For more information please check out the Writing Centre website at

Further information regarding the Law School Policies and Procedures in relation to Supplementary Assessment, Extensions, and Remarks etc can be found at:

Plagiarism and other forms of cheating

Plagiarism is a serious act of academic misconduct. All students must be familiar with the Adelaide Law School Enrolment Guide 2014, and should note in particular the sections relating to plagiarism, grievance procedures and academic conduct within the Law School and the University.

Plagiarism is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the University. Please be aware that “academic dishonesty” (which goes beyond plagiarism) can be a ground for a refusal by the Supreme Court of South Australia to refuse to admit a person to practice as a legal practitioner in South Australia.

Academic honesty is an essential aspect of ethical and honest behaviour, which is central to the practice of the law and an understanding of what it is to be a lawyer.