Course

Tax Administration Process - TABL5506

Faculty: UNSW Business School

School: School of Taxation and Business Law

Course Outline: TABL5506 Course Outline

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0

Enrolment Requirements:

Restricted to students enrolled in Program 5231, 5245, 5540, 5740, 7545, 9200, 9210, 9230, 9231, 9245, 9255, 9257, 9260, Streams ATAXBS9250, ATAXDS9250, ATAXES9250

Equivalent: ATAX0406

Excluded: ATAX0306, ATAX0506, TABL3006, ATAX0606

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course deals with the practical operation of the rule making and dispute resolution in the Australian tax system. It analyses these issues in an over-riding, critical framework. Its longer title might be 'Tax Processes in an Age of Self Assessment'. It is driven by the operation and limits of a modern, computerised tax self-assessment system operating under the pressures of mass decision making. It examines the role of key tax institutions.

More specifically it covers: the functional limits of legislative supervision (including drafting styles, principle based legislation and the imperative of clear, robust tax law); the interaction of the bureaucracy and self-assessing taxpayers based on a Culp Davis delegated decision making model (with particular emphasis on Rulings). This includes rulings as part of the delegation process; the methods of auditing self assessment, and amending assessments in a self assessment framework; the strengths and limits of judicial intervention as a dispute resolution and rule making vehicle, including constitutive rules of courts and the innovative Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The course develops a working familiarity with the framework of review, taxpayer remedies and other legal material on tax procedure. It emphasises the crucial information gathering rules.
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