Wapato Corporation purchased a new piece of equipment at the beginning of Year $1$ for $$1,160,000.$ The expected life of the asset is $20$ years with no residual value. The company uses straight$-$line depreciation for financial reporting purposes and accelerated depreciation for tax purposes $($the accelerated method results in $$139,200$ of depreciation in Year $1$ and $$116,000$ of depreciation in Year $2).$ The company's federal income tax rate is $21$ percent. The company determined its income tax obligations for Year $1$ and Year $2$ were $$415,000$ and $$627,000,$ respectively.

$2.$ Compute income tax expense for each year.

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