The tax rates for a particular year are shown below: Taxable Income Tax Rate $0 – 50,000 15 % 50,001 – 75,000 25 % 75,001 – 100,000 34 % 100,001 – 335,000 39 % What is the average tax rate for a firm with taxable income of $124,513

A company's second year operations can be summarized as follows: Revenues: $110 000 Expenses (except CCA): $65 000 Its capital asset purchases in the first year totalled $100 000, with none in the second year. With a CCA rate of 20 percent and a tax rate of 55 percent, how much income tax did it pay?

17.7 Rotana Construction, Inc., has operated for the last 21 years in a northern U.S. state where the state income tax on corporate revenue is 6% per year. Rotana pays an average federal tax of 23% and reports taxable income of $7 million. Because of pressing labor cost increases, liability insurance premium increases, and other cost increases, the president wants to move to another state to reduce the total tax burden. The new state may have to be willing to offer tax allowances or an interest-free grant for the first couple of years in order to attract the company. You are an engineer with the company and are asked to do the following. (a) Determine the effective tax rate for Rotana. (b) Estimate the state tax rate that would be necessary to reduce the overall effective tax rate by 10% per year. (c) Determine what the new state would have to do financially for Rotana to move there and to reduce its effective tax rate to 22% per year.

A consumer electronics company was formedto develop cell phones that run on or are rechargedby fuel cells. The company purchased a warehouseand converted it into a manufacturing plant for$6,000,000. It completed installation of assemblyequipment worth $1,500,000 on December 31st. Theplant began operation on January 1st. The companyhad a gross income of $8,500,000 for the calendaryear. Manufacturing costs and all operating expenses,excluding the capital expenditures, were $2,280,000.The depreciation expenses for capital expendituresamounted to $456,000.(a) Compute the taxable income of this company.(b) How much will the company pay in federalincome taxes for the year?