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QUESTION 1: Lily Tucker (single) owns and operates a bike shop as a sole proprietorship. This year, she sells the following long-term assets used in

QUESTION 1: Lily Tucker (single) owns and operates a bike shop as a sole proprietorship. This year, she sells the following long-term assets used in her business:

Asset

Sales Price

Cost

Accumulated Depreciation

Building

$293,500

$248,500

$55,500

Equipment

$100,500

$192,700

$32,800

Lily's taxable incomebefore these transactions is $256,000.What are Lily's taxable income and tax liability for the year?

I got it wrong, my answers were :297,000 taxable income and78,259 for tax liability. please help i need the right answer

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QUESTION 2:

Shimmer Inc. is a calendar-year-end, accrual method corporation. This year, it sells the following long-term assets:

Asset

Sales Price

Cost

Accumulated Depreciation

Building

$697,000

$675,000

$49,500

Sparkle Corporation stock

191,000

264,000

n/a

Shimmer does not sell any other assets during the year, and its taxable income before these transactions is $886,000.

What are Shimmer's taxable income and tax liability for the year?

(I also got this wrong, my answers were Taxable income: 908,000 and tax liability 308,720

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