Continuous Tax Development (CTD)

Meet your ongoing tax training needs with Kaplan Professional's Continuous Tax Development program. This program will help you stay up to date with changing tax rules so you can maintain your competitive edge. You will also earn valuable CPE/CPD hours if you are a CPA or ICAA member.

This flexible program is delivered in a range of ways - public workshops and in-house training - so you can choose the format that best suits your needs.

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Benefits of Professional Tax Training

The constant changes to complex tax law expose you to following key risks:

  • Providing incorrect, out-of-date, tax advice to clients
  • Losing business by being uncompetitive in the time taken to research tax issues

Program Benefits

Kaplan Professional’s Continuous Tax Development (CTD) program will keep you current and productive by:

  • Keeping staff at all levels of experience up to date with new tax developments through our continuous tax updates
  • Providing in depth training on special tax topics in a particular area (e.g. Division 7A, losses, CGT)
  • Giving insight from experienced tax professionals who present your training and are able to incorporate practical issues from their own experience, as well as draw from a wealth of knowledge on current issues from training our broad range of clients around Australia.
  • Allowing attendees the opportunity to ask our tax professionals questions about specific and relevant client issues
  • Providing high quality training notes for use during and after the training that summarise complex issues while quickly explaining concepts through extensive use of diagrams
  • Flexible training delivery options, including:

All of our workshops are presented by professional Tax Trainers who provide engaging updates on critical tax changes and explain the impact of the key issues that are important to you and your clients, interspersed with “war stories” and topical tax industry issues faced by our Australia-wide client-base. Our training sessions focus on:

  • The practical impact of recent tax changes
  • How to apply recent tax changes in a client context
  • How to recognise planning opportunities as a result of recent tax changes

Your workshop training will be supported by high-quality, plain-English tax technical papers, renowned for their readability, accuracy and relevance. These technical reference materials include concise summaries, explanatory diagrams and examples, influenced by feedback from our diverse client-base.

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Technical Training Options

Continuous Tax Updates

If you're advising clients on tax-effective business structures and compliance issues, it's essential that you keep abreast of the endless and complex changes in tax law. Our Continuous Tax Update program will keep you up to date with critical tax developments, to ensure that you stay ahead of your competitors by providing accurate and topical advice.

The program is developed by a tax research team, incorporating tax trainers and experienced tax practitioners, which continuously monitors and analyses complex tax changes for the following areas:

  • Income tax, including CGT
  • GST, FBT and other taxes
  • Superannuation, trusts, partnerships and joint ventures
  • Tax administration and other taxes

You can attend Tax Update training at a public workshop held in venues across Australia or at an in-house workshop on your premises.

You will receive a high-quality tax technical reference paper analysing the detailed tax changes in a plain English format, complete with explanatory diagrams and examples.

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Special Tax Topics


The Special Tax Topics program is designed to strengthen and sharpen your knowledge of the latest tax developments and practical issues for topical areas of tax law or practice through an in-depth review of a particular topical tax issues.


You can attend Special Tax Topic training at a public workshop held in venues across Australia or at an in-house workshop on your premises.

Your workshop training will be supported by high-quality, plain-English Special Tax papers, renowned for their readability, accuracy and relevance. These technical reference materials include concise summaries, explanatory diagrams and examples, allowing your clients to benefit from your enhanced knowledge.

If you have a suggestion for a Special Topic to add to our program, please contact us.

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Training Delivery Options

Public Tax Workshops


Our Public Tax Workshops keep you up to date with the latest tax changes while you earn valuable CPE and CPD hours.

Our practical training sessions cover recent Tax Updates and a Special Tax Topic, conducted by highly skilled tax professionals and supported by plain-English technical papers.

Program Details

Public Tax Workshops are offered Australia-wide, covering most metropolitan and some regional centres, including:

State/Territory City/Suburb

Victoria

Southbank, St Kilda, Box Hill, Frankston, Mount Waverley and Mildura

New South Wales

Sydney, Castle Hill and Newcastle

Queensland

Brisbane and Gold Coast

Western Australia

West Perth and Bunbury

South Australia

Adelaide

Tasmania

On demand or enquire about in-house

Australian Capital Territory

On demand or enquire about in-house

Northern Territory

On demand or enquire about in-house

Fees vary according to the length of the workshop, with discounts available for attendees who register for 3 or more workshops.

Program Registration

To register for an upcoming workshop please complete an enrolment form (VIC or NSW, QLD, WA and SA) and submit via:

Fax to (03) 9626 4571
Mail to Kaplan Professional, GPO Box 9995, Melbourne VIC 3001
Email to tax@kaplan.edu.au

Or call us on 1300 135 791 for assistance.

Further Information

If you would like enquire about our public tax workshops, please complete our tax training enquiry form and we will contact you as soon as possible.

If you would like more information on Public Tax Workshops please call us on 1300 135 791 or email us at tax@kaplan.edu.au.

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In-House Tax Training


Our In-House Tax Training service keeps you and your business up to date with the latest tax changes while you earn valuable CPE and CPD hours.

These practical and interactive training sessions are conducted at your own premises by highly skilled tax professionals and supported by plain-English technical papers.

Program Details

We will work closely with you to tailor a Tax Update and Special Topics training solution that meets your firm's professional development needs and budget.

For regular Tax Update training on a monthly basis, we recommend a minimum training session time of two hours.  For Tax Update training on a quarterly basis, we recommend a minimum training session time of four hours in order to adequately cover the material.

Helpful hint:

  • To maintain and enhance your firm's competitive edge, we recommend combining regular Tax Update training with a Special Tax Topic session.
  • To sharpen and freshen up your firm's knowledge in specialist areas, pick and choose standalone training on one or more of our Special Tax Topics.

Fees are charged on a per session basis and vary according to the content covered and the length of the session.

Further Information

If you would like to talk to use about your training needs, please complete our tax training enquiry form and we will contact you as soon as possible.

For more information about in-house tax training please call us on 1300 135 791 or email us at tax@kaplan.edu.au.

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Our History in Tax Training

Read about our journey from Webb Martin Training and Tribeca Learning to Kaplan Professional.

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