Upgrading your tax qualifications and meeting your CPD requirements

Taxation and
Practice

August sees us publish the long-awaited third edition of the
pre-eminent source for immediate, authoritative answers to trusts and estates
issues, with Marks’ Trusts & Estates: Taxation and Practice being
fully revised and updated for 2014.

Find out more about this online title by visiting
taxinstitute.com.au/publications.

CPD requirements for
upcoming year

With the new financial year underway, it is a fantastic time
to start planning for how you will acquire your CPD requirements.

We offer our members several industry-relevant publications
and events that provide current information to help you stay up-to-date. These
offerings are made available to you in a variety of formats — be that at one of
our state conferences or seminars, online, in person or by DVD — and are
continually being updated and developed to meet the needs of our members.

You will find upcoming events, courses and publications to
help you meet your CPD requirements on our website at taxinstitute.com.au/professional-development/ upcoming-cpd-events.

Upgrade your tax
qualifications

We are all so busy throughout the year, it can be easy to
put off taking courses that help us stay up-to-date with our tax education
requirements. With your membership renewed for the upcoming financial year, it
is the perfect time to map out a plan to update the qualifications of yourself
or your staff in 2014-15.

The Institute offers courses to cater for all of your tax
requirements, with courses that lead into the CTA designation, in GST, tax law
and financial advising. Although Study Period 2 is already underway, you can
still register for several of our courses in 2014, including:

CTA1 Foundations Intensive: enrolments close 30 September;
CommLaw3 – Property Law: enrolments close 27 August; and
Tax for Trusts, Estate Planning and Wealth Management: enrolments close 27 August.

If you or your staff are looking to achieve BAS agent
status, our Course in Basic GST/BAS Taxation Principles is available at any
time. Similarly, if you or anyone you know is looking for a way to meet the
requirements under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 for financial
advisers advising on tax, we now offer a Tax for Financial Advising course
which you can undertake at your own convenience.

Find out more about our course offerings, important study
dates and how to enrol on our website’s education section at
taxinstitute.com.au/education.

Noel
Rowland

Noel Rowland is Chief Executive Officer of The Tax Institute.

The Tax Institute is Australia’s leading professional association in tax. Its 13,000 members include tax agents, accountants and lawyers as well as tax practitioners in corporations, government and academia.