LAWS6926 - The Business of Tax Administration

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Objectives

• Gain an overview of the business like approach adopted by tax administrators to the way they manage and lead their administrations in response to government demand for greater revenues and administrative effectiveness.
• Examine new thinking by tax administrators as to how to deliver outcomes sought by their key stakeholders, within an environment of increasing complexity, the need to improve the level of voluntary compliance and to detect and deter taxpayer non compliance whilst reducing administrative overheads and the cost to business when complying to tax laws.
• Explore the changing nature of tax administration as it responds to these demands.

Content

Use of revenue authorities; strategies and models used to improve voluntary compliance; administrative policy and legislative developments; the application of the self assessment concept; the managing of risks to compliance; the measuring of revenue assessment and collection performance; process re-engineering; the developing of new capabilities and the managing of change.

Session

Semester 1 Intensive
20-22 & 25-26 May 2009

The timetable is subject to frequent changes. Please refer to the latest version of the Postgraduate Timetable.

Assessment

• 1 x Take-home Exam (100%)

Courses this unit is available in

Master of Laws | Graduate Diploma in Law | Master of Administrative Law and Policy | Master of Business Law | Master of Taxation | Graduate Diploma in Taxation | Master of International Taxation