Determine Marginal Tax Rate and the Tax on Operating Profit Amgen Inc. reported the following in its tax footnote to its 2016 financial statements. Use this information to answer the requirements. The reconciliations between the federal statutory tax rate applied to income before income taxes and our effective tax rate were as follows: Federal statutory tax rate Foreign earnings, including earnings invested indefinitely Credits, Puerto Rico Excise Tax Share-based payments Credits, primarily federal R&D State taxes Audit settlements (federal, state, foreign) Othernet Effective tax rate 2016 2015 2014 35.0% 35.0% 35.0% (15.5) (18.1) (22.4) (2.3) (2.5) (1.3) 0.0 0.0 (0.7) (1.5) 0.6 0.6 1.2 0.0 (0.5) 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.2 16.2% 13.5% 8.1% a. Determine the tax rate that we should use to compute tax on operating profit for each year 2016, 2015, and 2014. 2016 2015 2014 Tax rate % 96 b. Compute the amount of tax on net operating profit for 2016. The company reported the following items on its 2016 income statement (5 millions). Interest expense, net Interest and other income, net Provision for income taxes $1.284 638 1,465 Round answer to the nearest whole number. $ million