Karen Wilson and Katie Smith are looking at the company's health care options and trying to determine how much their net pay will decrease if they sign up for the qualified cafeteria plan offered by the company. Karen, a married woman with four exemptions, earns $2,250 per biweekly payroll. Katie, a single woman with one exemption, also earns $2,075 per biweekly payroll. The biweekly employee contribution to health care that would be subject to the cafeteria plan is $115. Required:

Compute the taxable income for Karen and Katie.

Karen’s taxable income if she declines to participate in the cafeteria plan:

Karen’s taxable income if she participates in the cafeteria plan:

Katie’s taxable income if she declines to participate in the cafeteria plan:

Katie’s taxable income if she participates in the cafeteria plan:

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u. s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u. s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

The sec has historically raised questions regarding the independence of firms that derive a significant portion of their total revenues from one audit client or group of clients because the sec staff believes this situation causes cpa firms to

In each of the following cases, find the unknown variable. ignore taxes. (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e. g., 32.) accounting unit price unit variable cost fixed costs depreciation break-even 20,500 $ 44 $ 24 $ 275,000 $ 133,500 44 4,400,000 940,000 8,000 75 320,000 80,000