Question: Please build research memo responding to the question below: Our client, Happy T Behere, inherited a peanut cartoon from her mother more than a year
Please build research memo responding to the question below:
Our client, Happy T Behere, inherited a peanut cartoon from her mother more than a year ago. At the
time of her death, the cartoon was valued at $3,000. Originally, her mother had purchased it at a charity
auction for $1,000. At the alternative valuation date the cartoon was valued at $2,500. It is a valuable
cartoon as it featured a character, Charlotte Braun, included in only 10 comic strips. It is currently listed
and is expected to sell at an auction house for $10,000 tomorrow. She will have to pay a commission of
3% to sell it. She intends to split the proceeds with her brother. What is the tax impact of her selling the
Peanuts cartoon? She doesn't want to accept the final auction amount before hearing from you. Both
Happy and her brother are at 22% marginal tax bracket.
Your memo should include the four sections of a research memo discussed in class. These would be:
1. Facts
2. Question or Query
3. Discussion
4. Conclusion
Please make sure to reference sources that can be relied upon in your discussion section. Also, address
the gift to her brother.
I need two pages
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