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Andy and Currie met in Tax class and were married. They have five children: Miranda age 6, Savannah age 10, Wenbo age 12, Rachel age

Andy and Currie met in Tax class and were married. They have five children: Miranda age 6, Savannah age 10, Wenbo age 12, Rachel age 15, and Luke age 20. Luke has his own apartment but he works in the family business, he earned $25,000 last year. Andy works for a CPA firm. In 2020 he earned $77,000, $12,000 of federal income tax was withheld, and $3,000 of state income tax was withheld. In addition, they earned $300 of interest on their joint savings account, they received dividends of $1,200 on stock that they own (all the dividends are qualified), and they sold 100 shares of stock for $20 a share (they paid $10 a share three years ago).

Currie operates a welding shop in a facility that she rents. The business motto is Still not as fun as Tax Class. She operates as a sole proprietor, she has one part-time employee, plus Luke who does most of the welding (the rest of the children have to clean up the shop each evening before they get their supper).

Income and expenses of the welding business in 2020 were:

Gross revenues $248,000

Employee salaries 54,000

Employee payroll taxes 5,400

Building Insurance 16,000

Welding supplies 55,000

Rent 18,900

Currie paid estimated State income tax of $4,300 during the year, and estimated federal income tax of $15,000.

In addition the family also had the following expenses:

Family medical and dental expenses $19,000

Real estate taxes 3,400

Home mortgage interest 9,000 (their mortgage is $300,000)

Credit card finance charges 2,600

Sales tax 4,200

Cash donations to their church 4,000

Assume that there is no Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) for them.

QUESTION 21

  1. Assuming that all of Currie's Schedule C income is all QBI, and assuming that her property for QBI purposes is worth $10,000, what is her QBI deduction ?

    19,740

    18,345

    28,294

    13,750

1 points

QUESTION 22

  1. If you take the standard deduction you cannot take the QBI deduction.

    True

    False

1 points

QUESTION 23

  1. What is their taxable income?

    146,427

    101,069

    123,724

    120,569

0.5 points

QUESTION 24

  1. Before computing the income tax due, any preferential items such as qualified dividends and capital gains are deducted from the taxable income first and then these items are multiplied by the applicable preferential rate.

    True

    False

1.5 points

QUESTION 25

  1. What is Andy and Currie's federal income tax before credits and additional taxes?

    17,753

    18,645

    13,885

    27,219

1 points

QUESTION 26

  1. If they are eligible for child tax credits, how much is their child tax credit?

    10,000

    8,500

    5,000

    8,000

2 points

QUESTION 27

  1. What is their tax after credits ?

    16,847

    10,645

    17,001

    17,477

1 points

QUESTION 28

  1. The line on the Form 1040 titled 'Other Taxes' includes self employment taxes

    True

    False

1 points

QUESTION 29

  1. What are their total taxes?

    9,477 + 12,533 = 22,010

    18,645

    10,645

    10,645 + 13,946 = 24,591

1 points

QUESTION 30

  1. How much is their Federal incomes taxes withheld plus estimated Federal income tax payments

    12,000

    16,300

    27,000

    I don't know

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