You graduate and decide you will start a consulting business out of your home. To perform the basic analysis needed for your field, you need to purchase testing equipment. The seller has 2 prices, one for incorporated businesses ($25,000) and one for individuals ($20,000). The salvage value of this equipment after 4 years is predicted to be $10,000 in both cases. You and your partner are debating whether it is better to pay the higher purchase price and be able to depreciate the asset at a CCA rate of 30%, with the corporate tax rate of 40% OR to just keep them as a personal asset, with a sales tax rate of 10% at the time of sale. If we ignore the big picture arguments to be made here, what are the tax implications involved with each purchase/ sale option?

Alyssa who is currently operating a machine shop is considering Dindin, an excellent employee, to be her partner. Unfortunately, Dindin could not afford to invest cash of P 500,000 which Alyssa needs to expand her business. As consultant, you asked Alyssa to answer some questions before giving an advice on whether Dindin should be taken in as partner. What is your present annual net income? Can you avail of a loan of P 500,000? P 450,000 Yes Land Bank @ 17% P 450,000 What bank and what is the interest rate? With the new equipment, how much additional income will it generate? In how many year are you going to pay the loan? How much are you willing to pay Dindin as salary or profit? 5 years P 160,000 You drafted the following informatic and filed it up: Net income with the new equipment Less (Minus) interest charge on loan liability Net income after the interest charge Less (Minus) share of Dindin in the profits Share of Alyssa in the net income Net income the business is currently…

You have determined in your mind that you would like to have a business of your own, although your father runs a family restaurant in your local city. You have therefore, decided to have a medium size snack and cocktails bar which will accommodate the cruise ship passengers who visit your city. You plan to keep the business for five years after which you will sell it off to your brother John for $2,000,000 and go off to do your Master’s Degree in the UK. Though you will be occupying the establishment from your grandmother for free, you have decided that you need to make some improvements to the property which will cost you $1,500,000. Additionally, you will spend $275,000 in bar stools, tables and decorations. If this space had been leased out, it would have fetched a lease rental of $75,000 per year. You will depreciate the assets over 7 years using MACRS. You have determined that you would need an average cash balance of $15,000 and inventory of $20,000 while Accounts payable should…

Kaleo has made up his mind—he wants a pool in the family’s backyard! He figures his kids and spouse will be thrilled. However, to cover the cost of the pool, they’ll have to pack up and live away from home for a few weeks during the summer to rent their home to vacationers. He crunched the numbers based on the following estimates. 1. Cost of pool/installation   $50,000 2. Life of the pool (no salvage value)   20 years 3. Annual net cash inflows from renting (net of cash expenses for renting and pool maintenance)   $6,500 4. Tax rate   23% 5. Average rate of return    8% Kaleo’s daughter, Sarah, found the above information written on a sheet of paper in his office, along with the following notes. “This is a no-brainer! We’ll recover the cost of this pool in just 7 years, even though we plan to live here until we’re old and gray, or at least as long as the pool hangs on. If we can rent our house out for just 3 weeks each year, it’ll be almost pure profit that we can put toward paying off…