Tawana owns and operates a sole proprietorship and has a 37 percent marginal tax rate. She provides

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Tawana owns and operates a sole proprietorship and has a 37 percent marginal tax rate. She provides her son, Jonathon, $8,000 a year for college expenses. Jonathon works as a pizza delivery person every fall and has a marginal tax rate of 15 percent. 

a. What could Tawana do to reduce her family tax burden?
b. How much pretax income does it currently take Tawana to generate the $8,000 (after taxes) given to Jonathon?

c. If Jonathon worked for his mother’s sole proprietorship, what salary would she have to pay him to generate $8,000 after taxes (ignoring any Social Security, Medicare, or self-employment tax issues)?
d. How much money would the strategy in part (c) save?

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Essentials Of Federal Taxation 2019

ISBN: 9781260190045

10th Edition

Authors: Brian Spilker, Benjamin Ayers, John Robinson, Edmund Outslay, Ronald Worsham, John Barrick, Connie Weaver

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