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please show calculations Use the following information to complete Sara Vidal's 2020 federal income tax return. Ignore the requirement to attach the Form(s) W-2 to

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Use the following information to complete Sara Vidal's 2020 federal income tax return. Ignore the requirement to attach the Form(s) W-2 to the Form 1040. If information is missing from these facts, use reasonable assumptions to ll in gaps; otherwise, post a question to the appropriate discussion board. Note: when computing the tax liability, use the method we used in class based on the tax brackets in your quick reference guide, not any tax tables provided by the IRS. Facts: 1. Sara Vidal is employed as a quality engineer at Blaze Corporation. Sara lives in a home that she purchased 2 years ago. She is not married. Sara provides more than half of the support for her children, Lydia and Richard. Lydia lived with Sara for the entire year. Richard lived with Sara for 9 months this year. Richard moved out to live with his fiance in October (Richard and his ancee were not married as of the end of the year). Sara also provided the following information: Sara does not want to contribute to the presidential election campaign. Sara lives at 1234 Aurora Lane, San Jose, CA 95008. Sara's birthday is 5126! 1968 and her Social Security number is 123-45-6289. Richard Harrison is 22 years old and his Social Security number is 987-65-4321. Lydia Harrison is 16 years old and her Social Security number is 123-99-9999. Sara does not have any foreign bank accounts or trusts. 000000 2. Sara received a Form W-2 from Blaze Corporation that contained the following information: Line 1 Wages, tips, other compensation: $22,412 Line 2 Federal income tax withheld: 6,892 Line 3 Social Security wages: 80,000 Line 4 Social Security tax withheld: 4,960 Line 5 Medicare wages and tips: 80,000 Line 6 Medicare tax withheld: 1,160 Line 17 State income tax withheld: 4,900 3. Sara and a few of her co-workers have dreams of being on TV. Sara spent $1,240 on workout equipment to train for American Extreme Sport Champion. She did not make the cut. As a backup plan, she and her co-workers created a band (Quality Control), to audition for the latest singing reality show. They won't audition until 2021, but they have already scheduled 3 gigs for 2021. Sara receives $250 per performance, paid after each show. 4. Sara received $278 in interest from Brown County (a county in Wisconsin) bonds, $945 interest from Zephyr Corporation bonds, and $515 interest from a savings account at Savers Credit Union. None of the interest is from private activity bonds. She received a $695 dividend from Tomorrow, Inc. and an $842 dividend from Billboard, Inc. Both dividends are qualied dividends. These amounts were reported to her by each company on the proper Form 1099. 5. Richard was a full-time college student, in his fourth year of college. Sara paid Richard's tuition of $12,000. The amounts were all properly reported on Form 1098-T (San Jose State

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