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BCS Corporation is a calendar-year, accrual-method taxpayer. BCS was formed and started its business activities on January 1 of this year. It reported the following information for the year.
Indicate BCS's deductible amount for this year in each of the following alternative scenarios. (Leave no answers blank. Enter zero if applicable.)
d. In June of this year, a display of BCS’s product located in its showroom fell and injured a customer. The customer sued BCS for $500,000. The case is scheduled to go to trial next year. BCS was required to pay $500,000 to a court-appointed escrow fund this year. If BCS loses the case next year, the money from the escrow fund will be transferred to the customer suing BCS.
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