Jane Smith Tax issues: A – If you were to sell you current home your gain on the sales or exchange of your principal home would be excluded to a maximum of $500,000. I would advise you to sell the old house and use the money to purchase a new house. There are no benefits to fully paying of your mortgage; you will still be able to deduct your property tax and your interest payments with the new house. Selling your old house with a realized gain of less than $500,000 you will be able to exclude your gain and not pay
How is the $25,000 treated for purposes of federal tax income? c. What is your determination regarding reducing the taxable amount of income for both (a) and (b) above? d. Is it more beneficial to continue leasing the business space or to buy the building? 2. Jane Smith tax issues: e. What are the different tax consequences between paying down the mortgage (debt) and assuming a new mortgage (debt) for federal income tax purposes?
Applicable Law & Analysis: “Gross income does not include income attributable to the recovery during the taxable year of any amount deducted in any prior taxable year to the extent such amount did not reduce the amount of tax imposed by this chapter.“ (IRC Sec. 111 (a)) Conclusion: The tax issue at play here is how to handle the additional $25,000 received by John Smith from expenses he paid up front. If John previously expensed the $25,000 then the recovery of the $25,000 will be considered as income in the current year. If he didn’t then he may use the $25,000 to offset the deferred expenses and it will have no impact on his taxable income. Issue c) What is your determination regarding reducing the taxable amount of income for both (a) and (b) above?
A single point is a payment of one percent of the amount of the total mortgage loan. If you were borrowing $200,000 a single point would require an upfront payment of $2,000. When you are evaluating alternative mortgages, you may be able to obtain a lower rate by making an upfront payment. This comparison will not include an after-tax comparison. When taxes are considered, the effective costs are affected by interest paid and the amortization of points on the loan.
As long as the account was held for more than five years withdraws are not subject to income tax after the normal retirement age. Income limitations If the taxpayer has an income above a certain level, Roth IRA is not available to them. If they are single, the contribution limit is completely eliminated at $120,000. If the taxpayer is married, the joint contribution limited is eliminated when income is above $176.000. Due to the income cut off level, many tax payers are not able to take advantage of the tax free retirement saving the Roth IRA offers.
A tax advantage of business combination can occur when the existing owner of a company sells out and receives: a. cash to defer the taxable gain as a “tax-free reorganization” b. stock to defer the taxable gain as a “tax-free reorganization” c. cash to create a taxable gain d. stock to create a taxable gain 2. Publics Company acquired the net assets of Citizen Company during 20X9. The purchase price was $800,000. On the date of the transaction, Citizen had no long-term investments in marketable equity securities and $400,000 in liabilities. The fair value of Citizen assets on the acquisition date was as follows: |Current assets |$ 800,000 | |Noncurrent assets | 600,000 | | |$1,400,000 | How should Publics account for the $200,000 difference between the fair value of the net assets acquired, $1,000,000, and the cost, $800,000?
Pursuant to the divorce decree, Arnold is obliged to perform as follows: a. Transfer title of their personal home to Barbara. They purchased the house in 1998 and their basis today is $400,000. The fair market value of the house is $500,000. The house is subject to a 25-year, $250,000 mortgage.
Since Nike has bonds outstanding, then the YTM on those bonds (7.13%) is the market-required rate on the Nike’s debt. In order to solve for the total debt, I had to find out the market value of the debt. In doing so I multiplied the book value by the percent of face value that the debt was currently selling for (.9560) or the present value of the debt. I was able to use my calculation from the CAPM as my cost of equity (10.36%). In solving for the percentage of debt I simply subtracted my percentage of equity from 100.
3) A company changes from straight-line to an accelerated method of calculating depreciation, which will be similar to the method used for tax purposes. The entry to record this change should include a A. credit to Accumulated Depreciation 4) Presenting consolidated financial statements this year when statements of individual companies were presented last year is an accounting change that should be reported by restating the financial statements of all prior periods presented. 13) If a short-term obligation is excluded from current liabilities because of refinancing, the footnote to the financial statements describing this event should include all of the following information EXCEPT: the number of financing institutions that refused to refinance the debt, if any 14) Stock dividends distributable should be classified on the balance sheet as an item of stockholders' equity. 15) Which of the following items is a current liability? A long-term debt maturing currently, which is to be paid with cash in a sinking fund b.
Also, with even higher liabilities, it may be difficult to meet the debt service agreements if the company doesn’t have enough cash flow from operations. 1(c) What potential income tax ramifications exist for Mr. Johnson personally if he purchases the stock of Smithon and converts it to an S corporation? If the Mr.Jones decides to convert Smithon to a subchapter S Corporation, it will enable the corporation itself to avoid paying taxes, but the profit and losses will be passed to shareholders as personal income and losses. Now we should consider the expected losses from the huge investment in equipment purchase. Net operating losses cannot be used to shelter personal income but can be carried forward by a C corporation to provide tax benefit in future when the business expects profit.