ACA1 Task 2 A. Filing Status: There are two choices of filing status available to this taxpayer couple‚ married filing separately and married filing jointly. For this taxpayer couple the recommended filing status is married filing jointly. The tax rates would be higher if they filed separately. Additionally‚ some deductions (e.g. tuition and student loan interest)‚ credits (e.g. Earned Income Credit) and exclusions would not be allowed if they filed separately. Since they sold a personal
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ACA1 Tax Treatments for Individual Returns (Task 302.2.3) A. Recommended Tax Filing Status The tax filing status that I would recommend is Married Filing Joint. The reason for this is that the IRS has various tax breaks for married persons that file together that are unavailable if you file married filing separate. It also affect the tax rate‚ they will pay a lower rate of taxes if they file together than they would if they filed separately. A2a. Taxable and Non-Taxable Income Taxable
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Tax Treatment of Private Jet Expenses Facts: Alex Jones is a computer engineer‚ Aubrey‚ his wife‚ is an attorney. Alex is an independent contractor at ABC‚ Inc. Jones owns a Christmas tree farm as sole proprietorship in Oregon and they report the farm on their joint federal income tax return. Apart from the home in Phoenix‚ AZ‚ Jones has the other home in Honolulu‚ Hawaii‚ and cost $2 million to rebuilt it. They lease the home to operate the house as B&B. Apart from that‚ they also own a
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TAX TREATMENT OF PRIVATE JET EXPENSES Facts: Alex Jones owns a small software company‚ Find Donuts‚ Inc in Michigan. A patent on a smartphone application named Find Donuts which is designed to locate donuts shops‚ is the only asset of Find Donuts‚ Inc. With the intention of promoting the sales of the Find Donuts smartphone app and increasing company revenue‚ Alex Jones attended a computer conference in June 2010‚ in San Francisco. Alex also owns a Christmas tree farm in Oregon. Primary purpose
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FAN COMPANY A Memo To: Fan Company A From: WGU Student Date: 3/23/14 Re: Depreciation Method Recommendations The calculation of the straight line method of depreciation is by taking the cost of the item minus its salvage value then dividing that figure by the expected year’s life cycle of the item. This is a non complex calculation and it reduces net income and the equal amounts of depreciation are deducted from every life cycle year of the item. The double declining balance method of depreciation
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Abstract In Tschetschot v. Commissioner‚ 93 TCM 914 (2007)‚ the tax court ruled that taxpayer’s losses from participating in tournament poker were limited to the amount of her winnings. The court held that tournament poker is‚ despite its differences from other types of poker‚ essentially a wagering activity and therefore should not be treated differently from other forms of gambling for tax purposes. The court also rejected the taxpayer’s equal protection argument to treat tournament poker as sports
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William Pittman 10/14/14 Writing COMP – Han To Tax or not To Tax Two authors by the names of Paul Krugman and Fred E. Foldvary have varying opinions on the topic of taxing the rich. The debate they’re writing about is whether or not the US should increase the tax burden on the rich. Foldvary states in his “The Evil of Taxing the Rich” article that there are a lot of negative affects that would come along with taxing the rich. Mainly‚ he says the rich are paying a much larger percentage of federal
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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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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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the mother supplies the couple with $7920 a year. The money that she supplies is what she receives from her Social Security benefits. The reason that the couple should not file under the status married filing separately is because the tax rates are higher than the tax rates for those filing under the status married filing jointly. Also‚ there several deductions‚ credits‚ and exclusions that are allowed for the status married filing jointly that are not allowed for those that are choosing to file separately
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