Question: 2 . How does the tax benefit rule apply in the following scenarios? a . In a prior year, an accrual method taxpayer, sold inventory
How does the tax benefit rule apply in the following scenarios?
a In a prior year, an accrual method taxpayer, sold inventory on credit for $ to a customer. The cost of the inventory to the seller was $ Last year, the seller took a bad debt deduction for the entire amount owed of $ because the customer would not pay his bill. In the customer paid the seller the $ owed. The seller was in the marginal tax bracket in the year of sale, the marginal tax bracket in the year the debt was deemed uncollectible, and the marginal tax bracket in the current year.
The seller must include $
in the current years gross income as the recovery of a prior deduction.
As a result of the changes in the marginal tax rates that the seller experiences over the years, what is the net additional tax the seller has to pay as a result of the timing of the bad debt deduction and its subsequent recovery?
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