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In this activity, students learn what happens if their employer tries to avoid paying tax and super on their behalf by paying them cash-in-hand or ‘under the table’.

Students explore how business tax is reported and collected through business activity statements. They apply their understanding by completing a BAS for a hypothetical business.

Students learn about business requirements in relation to record keeping. They learn that, under tax law, record keeping is a responsibility of all businesses. They also consider a scenario and provide advice to business owners on strategies they can use to improve their record keeping processes and meet their responsibilities in relation to tax.

In this activity, students investigate the living standards of different countries in the Asia region. They locate display and interpret data to explain the relationship between living standards and taxation systems (tax revenue and spending). They collaboratively model the consequences of significant reductions to government spending to further explain this relationship.

In this activity, students consider a number of scenarios to weigh up the costs and benefits of making pre-tax contributions to superannuation. They decide whether the difference that these contributions make to their disposable income is outweighed by the long-term gains to their superannuation outcomes.

In this activity, students learn about negative externalities through a case study of petrol and electric cars. They work in pairs to investigate the ways that governments can minimise the environmental impacts of petrol and diesel cars by increasing the uptake of electric cars.  

In this activity, students explore how tax revenue is used to redistribute income through social welfare payments. They interpret data to draw evidence-based conclusions about Australia’s welfare system, including whether the Job Seeker payment rate should be increased and why.

Students collaboratively investigate the role of taxes in one ancient society. This research task can be applied to any ancient society students are studying including:   Mediterranean world – Egypt, Greece or Rome Asia world – India or China Students develop questions to investigate and then work in groups to investigate the who, what, how and why of tax in the ancient society they are studying. Groups communicate their findings as…