TAX4001 Exam 1 2024/2025 Exam
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How are realized income, gross income, and taxable income similar, and
how are they different? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Realized income is more broadly
defined than gross income which is more broadly defined than taxable
income.
Gross income includes all realized income that taxpayers are not allowed to
exclude from gross income or are not permitted to defer to a later year.
Consequently, gross income is the income that taxpayers actually report on
their tax returns and pay taxes on. In the tax formula, taxable income is
gross income minus allowable deductions for and from AGI. Taxable
income is the base used to compute the tax due before applicable credits.
However, any income included in gross income can be considered
"taxable" income because gross income is income that is taxable and
causes an increase in the taxes that a taxpayer is required to pay (gross
income increases taxable income).
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,Are taxpayers required to include all realized income in gross income?
Explain. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No. Taxpayers are allowed to permanently
exclude certain types of income from gross income or defer certain types of
income from taxation (gross income) until a subsequent tax year.
Consequently, taxpayers are not required to include all realized income in
gross income.
All else being equal, should taxpayers prefer to exclude income or defer it?
Why? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Taxpayers should prefer to exclude income rather
than defer income. When they exclude income they are never taxed on the
income. When they defer income, they are still taxed on the income, but
they are taxed in a subsequent tax year
Why should a taxpayer be interested in the character of income received? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔A taxpayer should be interested in the character of income
received because the character of the income determines how the income
is treated for tax purposes (including the rate at which the income is taxed).
For example, ordinary income is taxed at the rates provided in the tax rate
schedule. Qualified dividend income and long-term capital gains (after a
netting process) are generally taxed at a maximum 15% rate (20% in the
case of high income taxpayers).
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,Is it easier to describe what a capital asset is or what it is not? Explain. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔It is easier to describe what a capital asset is not. In
general, a capital asset is any asset other than:
• Accounts receivable from the sale of goods or services.
• Inventory and other assets held for sale in the ordinary course of
business.
• Assets used in a trade or business, including supplies.
Thus, any asset used for investment or personal purposes is considered to
be a capital asset.
Are all capital gains (gains on the sale or disposition of capital assets)
taxed at the same rate? Explain. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No. If a taxpayer holds a
capital asset for a year or less the gain is taxed at ordinary tax rates. If the
taxpayer holds the asset for more than a year before selling, the gain is
generally taxed at a maximum 15% rate but could be taxed as high as 20%
for high income taxpayers. If the taxpayer sells more than one capital asset
during the year and recognizes both capital gains and capital losses, the
gains and losses are netted together before determining the applicable tax
rate.
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, Are taxpayers allowed to deduct net capital losses (capital losses in excess
of capital gains)? Explain. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔In general, a taxpayer is
allowed to deduct, as a "for AGI deduction," up to $3,000 of net capital loss
against ordinary income. If the net capital loss exceeds $3,000, the
taxpayer is allowed to carry the loss over indefinitely to deduct in
subsequent years (subject to the $3,000 annual deduction limitation). If
however, a capital loss arises from the sale of a personal use asset (such
as a personal automobile or a personal residence), the loss is not
deductible.
Compare and contrast for and from AGI deductions. Why are for AGI
deductions likely more valuable to taxpayers than from AGI deductions? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔All deductions are classified as either "for AGI" or "from
AGI" deductions. Gross income minus "for AGI deductions" equals AGI.
AGI minus "from AGI deductions" equals taxable income. "For AGI
deductions" are often referred to as deductions above the line, while
deductions from AGI are referred to as deductions below the line. The line
is AGI (the last line on the front page of the individual tax return).
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Questions and Answers | 100% Pass
How are realized income, gross income, and taxable income similar, and
how are they different? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Realized income is more broadly
defined than gross income which is more broadly defined than taxable
income.
Gross income includes all realized income that taxpayers are not allowed to
exclude from gross income or are not permitted to defer to a later year.
Consequently, gross income is the income that taxpayers actually report on
their tax returns and pay taxes on. In the tax formula, taxable income is
gross income minus allowable deductions for and from AGI. Taxable
income is the base used to compute the tax due before applicable credits.
However, any income included in gross income can be considered
"taxable" income because gross income is income that is taxable and
causes an increase in the taxes that a taxpayer is required to pay (gross
income increases taxable income).
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,Are taxpayers required to include all realized income in gross income?
Explain. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No. Taxpayers are allowed to permanently
exclude certain types of income from gross income or defer certain types of
income from taxation (gross income) until a subsequent tax year.
Consequently, taxpayers are not required to include all realized income in
gross income.
All else being equal, should taxpayers prefer to exclude income or defer it?
Why? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Taxpayers should prefer to exclude income rather
than defer income. When they exclude income they are never taxed on the
income. When they defer income, they are still taxed on the income, but
they are taxed in a subsequent tax year
Why should a taxpayer be interested in the character of income received? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔A taxpayer should be interested in the character of income
received because the character of the income determines how the income
is treated for tax purposes (including the rate at which the income is taxed).
For example, ordinary income is taxed at the rates provided in the tax rate
schedule. Qualified dividend income and long-term capital gains (after a
netting process) are generally taxed at a maximum 15% rate (20% in the
case of high income taxpayers).
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,Is it easier to describe what a capital asset is or what it is not? Explain. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔It is easier to describe what a capital asset is not. In
general, a capital asset is any asset other than:
• Accounts receivable from the sale of goods or services.
• Inventory and other assets held for sale in the ordinary course of
business.
• Assets used in a trade or business, including supplies.
Thus, any asset used for investment or personal purposes is considered to
be a capital asset.
Are all capital gains (gains on the sale or disposition of capital assets)
taxed at the same rate? Explain. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔No. If a taxpayer holds a
capital asset for a year or less the gain is taxed at ordinary tax rates. If the
taxpayer holds the asset for more than a year before selling, the gain is
generally taxed at a maximum 15% rate but could be taxed as high as 20%
for high income taxpayers. If the taxpayer sells more than one capital asset
during the year and recognizes both capital gains and capital losses, the
gains and losses are netted together before determining the applicable tax
rate.
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, Are taxpayers allowed to deduct net capital losses (capital losses in excess
of capital gains)? Explain. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔In general, a taxpayer is
allowed to deduct, as a "for AGI deduction," up to $3,000 of net capital loss
against ordinary income. If the net capital loss exceeds $3,000, the
taxpayer is allowed to carry the loss over indefinitely to deduct in
subsequent years (subject to the $3,000 annual deduction limitation). If
however, a capital loss arises from the sale of a personal use asset (such
as a personal automobile or a personal residence), the loss is not
deductible.
Compare and contrast for and from AGI deductions. Why are for AGI
deductions likely more valuable to taxpayers than from AGI deductions? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔All deductions are classified as either "for AGI" or "from
AGI" deductions. Gross income minus "for AGI deductions" equals AGI.
AGI minus "from AGI deductions" equals taxable income. "For AGI
deductions" are often referred to as deductions above the line, while
deductions from AGI are referred to as deductions below the line. The line
is AGI (the last line on the front page of the individual tax return).
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