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The Economics of Taxation

  • ECON30016
  • Contact Hours: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week
    Total Time Commitment: Not available
  • 12.50
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Topics include review of the economic framework for analysing decision making; background to the Australian and other relevant taxation systems; issues and controversies in relation to the tax system and taxpayer decisions; objectives of tax collectors and taxpayers; why taxes exist; options and issues concerning tax bases: income, company profits, expenditures, wealth; the economic impact of taxes on work effort, prices, consumption and saving, investment and financial decisions, corporate investment and corporate financing, welfare, the international location of profits, tax avoidance and evasion; economic analysis of taxpayer decisions concerning legal entities, filing procedures,... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: The following: Subject Study Period Commencement: Credit Points: ECON20002 Intermediate Microeconomics Summer Term, Semester 1 12.50



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