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Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T3 2021
Unit Code HI6028
Unit Title Taxation Theory, Practice & Law
Assessment Type Individual Assignment
Assessment Title Case Studies of Specific Deductions and Tax Liability
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO
Mapping) Students are required to follow the instructions by your lecturer to confirm any relevant information. You also need to follow any relevant announcement on Blackboard to confirm the due date and time of the assignment.
The individual assignment will assess students on the following learning outcomes:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the Australian income tax system, the concept of FBT, Ordinary Income, general anti-avoidance provisions and income tax administration. (ULO 1).
2. Identify and critically analyse taxation issues. (ULO 2).
3. Interpret the relevant taxation legislations and case law. (ULO 3).
4. Apply taxation principles to real life problems. (ULO 4).
Weight This assignment task accounts for 40 % of total marks in this unit.
Total Marks This assignment task accounts for 40% marks of total marks in this unit.
Word limit Max 1500 words
Due Date Week 9, 28 January 2022 (Before 11.59 PM AEST)
HI6028 Taxation Theory, Practice and Law Individual Assignment T3.2021
Submission Guidelines Instructions: Please read carefully to avoid mistakes.
• Answer all questions.
• This assignment along with a completed Assignment Cover Page is to be submitted on Blackboard by the due date in soft copy only.
• The self-check links are no longer available as a separate link in each unit’s assessment. Students are now limited to attempt any given assignment submission a maximum of once. After this attempt you will receive a SafeAssign originality report with Blackboard Learning Management System. This will provide detailed information about the matches found between your submitted works and existing sources.
• The assignment is to be submitted in accordance with assessment policy stated in the Unit Outline and Student Handbook.
• It is the responsibility of the student submitting the work to ensure that the work is in fact his/her own work. Incorporating another’s work or ideas into one’s own work without appropriate acknowledgement is an academic offence.
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers.
• Harvard Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Adopted Harvard referencing style. You also must refer to relevant legislation and/or case law in your answer. Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using Harvard referencing style. Penalty for not providing references is 5 marks.
• Note: Assessment task is set around the work that you have done in class. You are not expected to go outside the content of the unit, but you are expected to explore it.
Assignments’ Instructions and Requirements
Question 1 (25 Marks)
Part A. Andrew is employed as a salesperson of a solar company. His employer requires him to travel extensively during the year for work-related purposes. With reference to relevant legislation, discuss the ways (methods) Andrew might be able to claim deductions for his car expenses (15 Marks)
Part B. John, the owner of the solar company, purchased a Mercedes car and will be used 100% for business purposes on 1 November 2021 at a cost of $118,000 (inc GST) estimated to have a useful life of ten years.
Required: With reference to relevant legislation, discuss and calculate what amount is allowed as a deduction for the decline in value of the machinery and the car discussed above, using both prime cost and diminishing value methods (10 Marks)
HI6028 Taxation Theory, Practice and Law Individual Assignment T3.2021
QUESTION 2 (15 MARKS)
A new client, Mery, is your first client. She requires to lodge her income tax for 2020/21. Furthermore, she has done some charitable works this year. So, she wants to know about the legal provisions and asks what types of entities are exempt from income tax? Answer the question.
Furthermore, she gave her annual income and deduction below. Calculate her Total Assessable Income, Taxable Income, Total tax Liability, including Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge, if applicable, for the taxpayer (Mery ) with the information below:
• Mery is a resident single mom with one dependent child (7 years old) taxpayer of Australia for the tax year 2020-2021
• Her Taxable Salary earned is $102,000 (Including tax withheld) having no private health insurance.
• She had a $7,000 deduction.
• Mery has a student loan outstanding for his previous studies at Queensland University technology of $42,000.
• Mery’s employer pays superannuation guarantee charge of 10% on top of her salary to her nominated fund.
• Mery earned a passive income of $6,000 from the investments in shares in the same tax year.
Hint: The following website can be used to cross check your answers, but you need to provide the detailed calculations, rates and explanations with the screenshots of rates from ATO website.
https://www.paycalculator.com.au/
Submission guide: Strictly NO excel sheet(s) or the screenshots of excel calculations and/or tables are allowed and NO marks will be granted if these are submitted. But no referencing is required for this question. Kindly use word document tables for your answers and please avoid writing the calculations in narration format.
QUESTION 2: Income Tax Calculation and explanation Weighting
Answer tax related questions 5%
Total Assessable Income 1 %
Total Taxable Income 1 %
HELP repayment amount 1 %
Medicare Levy 1 %
Medicare Levy Surcharge 1 %
Total Tax Liability 3 %
Net Tax Liability (Total Tax Liability less any applicable tax offset if any) 2 %
Academic Integrity
Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding Academic Integrity, as Academic Integrity is integral to maintaining academic quality and the reputation of Holmes’ graduates. Accordingly, all assessment tasks need to comply with academic integrity guidelines. Table 1 identifies the six categories of Academic Integrity breaches. If you have any questions about Academic Integrity issues related to your assessment tasks, please consult your lecturer or tutor for relevant referencing guidelines and support resources. Many of these resources can also be found through the Study Sills link on Blackboard.
Academic Integrity breaches are a serious offence punishable by penalties that may range from deduction of marks, failure of the assessment task or unit involved, suspension of course enrolment, or cancellation of course enrolment.
Table 1: Six categories of Academic Integrity breaches
Plagiarism Reproducing the work of someone else without attribution. When a student submits their own work on multiple occasions this is known as self-plagiarism.
Collusion Working with one or more other individuals to complete an assignment, in a way that is not authorised.
Copying Reproducing and submitting the work of another student, with or without their knowledge. If a student fails to take reasonable precautions to prevent their own original work from being copied, this may also be considered an offence.
Impersonation Falsely presenting oneself, or engaging someone else to present as oneself, in an in-person examination.
Contract cheating Contracting a third party to complete an assessment task, generally in exchange for money or other manner of payment.
Data fabrication falsification and Manipulating or inventing data with the intent of supporting false conclusions, including manipulating images.
Source: INQAAHE, 2020
If any words or ideas used the assignment submission do not represent your original words or ideas, you must cite all relevant sources and make clear the extent to which such sources were used.
HI6028 Taxation Theory, Practice and Law Individual Assignment T3.2021
In addition, written assignments that are similar or identical to those of another student is also a violation of the Holmes Institute’s Academic Conduct and Integrity policy.
The consequences for a violation of this policy include a range of penalties varying from a 50% penalty through suspension of enrolment. The penalty would be dependent on the extent of academic misconduct and your history of academic misconduct issues.
All assessments will be automatically submitted to SafeAssign to assess their originality.
For further information and additional learning resources please refer to your Discussion Board for the unit.