Tax Description Income Tax is a tax on a person’s income‚ emoluments‚ profits arising from property‚ practice of profession‚ conduct of trade or business or on the pertinent items of gross income specified in the Tax Code of 1997 (Tax Code)‚ as amended‚ less the deductions and/or personal and additional exemptions‚ if any‚ authorized for such types of income‚ by the Tax Code‚ as amended‚ or other special laws. Types of Income Tax Personal Income Tax (PIT) is a direct tax levied on income
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Income Tax Act 1961 Assessment Year: The period of twelve months starting from April 1 of every year and ending on March 31 of the next year. Previous Year: Income earned in a year (Previous year) is taxable in the next year (Assessment Year). Income earned during the previous year (PY) 2011-12 is taxable in the Assessment year (AY) 2012-13. From the AY 1989-90 onwards‚ all assesses are required to follow the financial year April 1 to March 31 as previous year for all sources of income
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your advice. The three stocks currently held all have b = 1.0‚ and they are perfectly positively correlated with the market. Potential new Stocks A and B both have expected returns of 15%‚ are in equilibrium‚ and are equally correlated with the market‚ with r = 0.75. However‚ Stock A’s standard deviation of returns is 12% versus 8% for Stock B. Which stock should this investor add to his or her portfolio‚ or does the choice not matter? Answer: B‚ Stock B Since she has a portfolio the number is held
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Chapter 10 Property: Dispositions SOLUTIONS MANUAL Discussion Questions: 1. [LO 1] Compare and contrast different ways in which a taxpayer triggers a realization event by disposing of an asset. A realization event for tax purposes is created in many ways. Virtually any disposal will result in a sale or other disposition. These include a sale‚ trade‚ gift to charity‚ disposal to the landfill‚ or destruction in a natural disaster. In a sale or trade (exchange)‚ the taxpayer receives something
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only deductions allowed are those specifically provided for by statute‚ rulings‚ etc. 2. Mitch is in the 28% tax bracket. He may receive a different tax benefit for a $2‚000 expenditure that is classified as a deduction from AGI than he will receive for a $1‚000 expenditure that is classified as a deduction for AGI. a. True b. False ANSWER: True RATIONALE: The value of the tax benefit to Mitch for the deduction from AGI may be less than that for the deduction for AGI. The value of the deduction
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INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN Many companies wants to have a return on their investment in a few years and begin to evaluate their projects optimistically calculating an internal rate of real return not yielding results in the end. This does not end up being expected by the companies; According to the article the authors John C. Kelleher and Justin J. MacCormack . They suggest that there is a tendency to a risky behavior‚ Companies started to run the risk of creating unrealistic numbers for themselves
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To Tax or Not to Tax: The Problem of America Money‚ like a cookie‚ is something everybody wants‚ and when it is gone a person blames everybody else for its absence; realizing later they were the one to consume it in the first place. Taxes‚ since the beginning of an organized economy‚ have been argued over for centuries. At the end of 2012 after surviving the “end of the world‚” tax payers were faced with another apocalyptic situation‚ the Fiscal Cliff. It had the potential to raise taxes to outrageous
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QUESTIONS: (2-3) Little Books Inc. recently reported $3m of net income. Its EBIT was $6m‚ and its tax was 40%. What was its interest expense? ANSWER: Net Income $3 Million EBIT $6 Million Divided by 0.6 Less IBT $5 Million Income before Taxes $5 Million Interest Expense $1 Million **Interest Expense = $1M** (2-7) The Talley Corporation had a taxable income of $365‚000 from operations after all operating costs but before (1) interest charges of
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16th amendment: Income Tax In America‚ one of the biggest tax bites on our income is the federal income tax‚ although state and local taxes also take a substantial bite. There are property taxes and sales taxes. Every time we fill up the gas tax‚ we are paying a tax. We pay so much taxes that some have calculated “tax freedom day”‚ as the day during the year when our nation has theoretically earned the income necessary to have paid our taxes for a year. We pay taxes to pay for government services
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1‚ 8‚ 12‚ 19‚ 22‚ 23‚ 37‚ 38 3-1: b. Income g. Less: Exclusions f. Gross Income a. Less: Deductions for adjusted gross income d. Adjusted gross income h. Less: The greater of— Total itemized deductions or standard deduction e. Less: Personal and dependency exemptions c. Taxable Income 3-8: In choosing between the standard deduction and itemizing deductions from AGI‚ what effect‚ if any‚ does each of the following variables have? a. The age of the taxpayer(s). If over
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