Green Valley Exporters USA has $100,000 of before tax foreign income. The host country has a corporate income tax rate of 25% and the U.S. has a corporate income tax rate of 35%.

Refer to Instruction 15.1. If the U.S. treated the taxes paid on income earned in the host country as a tax-deductible expense, then Green Valley's total U.S. corporate tax on the foreign earnings would be:

		$10,000.
		$26,250.
		$35,000.
		$51,250.