TAX LAW INCLUDING WORKSHOP
 
Taught in 3rd year Bachelor in business studies - Main Subject: Legal Practise
Theory [A] 12.5
Exercises [B] 12.5
Training and projects [C] 12.5
Studytime [D] 100.0
Studypoints [E] 4
Level in-depth
Credit contract? Access upon approval
Examination contract?
Language of instruction Dutch
Lecturer Isabelle GOETHALS
Reference RCBMGR03A00003
 
Key words
Fiscal law, IWETO code S141

Objectives
Students are expected to get a view and practical knowledge of fees of registration and succession.

Topics
I. Registration fees
  • Definition and objective;
  • Acts and statements to be registered;
  • Persons obliged to register;
  • Period of registration;
  • Place of registration;
  • Rates for registration;
  • Analysis of proportional registration fees;
  • Certificate
II Succession rights
  • Basics of law of inheritance;
  • Taxable transfers;
  • Taxable base;
  • Declaration;
  • Rates, exemption and diminution;
  • Payment;
  • State guarantees;
  • Obligations for third parties;
  • Means of evidence;
  • Prescription;
  • Legal action;
  • Techniques of succession planning.
III Working out a real case or exploring a recent fiscal issue on one's own.

Prerequisites
Basics of civil and fiscal law

Final Objectives
Knowledge:
Job-related:
  • Knowing registration and succession law: laws, legal regulations, legal proceedings;
  • Analysis of doctrine and jurisprudence;
  • Knowing judicial documents.
Skills:
General:
  • Thinking and reasoning capacity;
  • Capacity of critical reflection;
  • Working on one's own;
  • Decisiveness;
  • Consulting sources
General and job-related:
  • Being able to argue;
  • Efficiently researching information (professional methodology)
  • Assessing information offered (critical attitude)
  • Discerning problems
  • Analytical, problem solving set of mind.
Job-related:
  • Easily handling registration and succession fees;
  • Identifying, qualifying, selecting relevant rules of law, analysing and interpreting them, applying the rules in practice, assessing and weighing arguments, phrasing a solution;
  • Being able to apply the law in the framework of an assignment.
Attitudes:
General:
  • Meticulousness
General and job-related:
  • Practicality
Job-related:
  • Handling information on registration and succession fees;
  • Practicality;
  • Permanently following up on changes in registration and succession fees.


Materials used
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Course book and codex

Study costs
Normal prices in shops and Hogeschool Gent

Study guidance
Students may take their questions to the lecturer;
Guided self-study on the case or the exploration of a recent fiscal issue;
Consultations on study progress.

Teaching Methods
Alternating lecture, interactive session, class exercises, group work and case study;
Guided self-study is provided for;
Cross-course cooperation with the "Private and Public law seminar".

Assessment
  • First exam session: 100% written exam
  • Second exam session: 100% written exam
Students registered for the examinations only:
  • First exam session: 100% written exam
  • Second exam session: 100% written exam


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