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Tax Strategies in Financial Planning - ATAX0327
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Australian School of Taxation
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: ATAX Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Restricted to students enrolled in Programs 9250 or 9255 or 9260 or 9270
 
 
Excluded: ATAX0427, ATAX0527
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Taxation concessions for superannuation are a tool used by Government to encourage retirement funding and this course investigates those concessions and how they can be efficiently applied in financial planning. In doing so it assumes a basic understanding of taxation of contributions, funds and benefits. The course also investigates alternative taxation strategies that can be used in financial planning to fund retirement including negative gearing, use of the small business and the residential property tax concessions. It also covers taxation in the context of estate planning, and examines how taxation is critical to portfolio construction for superannuation funds and taxation strategies used for constructing portfolios.


Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

This course provides students with a comparison between the different taxation treatment of investments and funding vehicles used in financial planning that, in turn, can give rise to different investment strategies and portfolio construction in a personal financial planning environment. Students will acquire a good grounding in comparisons between the taxation of these investment strategies and funding vehicles.

Main Topics

  • Financial planning and taxation
  • Taxation concessions for saving
  • Taxation of funding vehicles
  • Taxation of termination and retirement payments
  • Estate taxation
  • Taxation and portfolio construction

Assessment

2 Assignments
1 Exam

Course Texts

Prescribed
There is no prescribed textbook for this course.

Acts
You must purchase or have access to the following publications:
  • Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
  • Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
  • Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
Citation and Style Guides
The following is a selection of acceptable citation and style guides, which you may use as the basis for your written work. You must purchase or have access to one of the following publications:
  • Rozenberg P, Australian guide to uniform legal citation (Sydney: Lawbook Co, 2nd ed, 2003)
  • Stuhmcke A, Legal referencing (Sydney: Butterworths, 3rd ed, 2005)
  • Australian guide to legal citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2nd ed, 2002) - Available from http://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/aglc.asp
Recommended
  • 2006/2007 Australian Master Superannuation Guide (Sydney: CCH Australia Ltd, 10th ed, 2006)
  • 2006/2007 Australian Master Financial Planning Guide (Sydney: CCH Australia, 9th ed, 2006)

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