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Required Information [ The following information applies to the questions displayed below. ] Shauna Coleman is single. She is employed as an architectural designer for

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Shauna Coleman is single. She is employed as an architectural designer for Streamline Design (SD). Shauna wanted to
determine her taxable income for this year (2022). She correctly calculated her AGI. However, she wasn't sure how to
compute the rest of her taxable income. She provided the following Information with hopes that you could use it to
determine her taxable income.
a. Shauna paid $4,710 for medical expenses for care related to a broken ankle in October. Also, Shauna's boyfrlend, Blake,
drove Shauna (in her car) a total of 115 mlles to the doctor's office so she could recelve care for her broken ankle.
b. Shauna paid a total of $3,475 in health insurance premlums during the year (not through an exchange). SD did not
relmburse any of this expense. Besides the health Insurance premlums and the medical expenses for her broken ankle,
Shauna had Lasik eye surgery last year and pald $3,075 for the surgery (she recelved no insurance relmbursement).
She also incurred $480 of other medical expenses for the year.
c. SD withheld $1,875 of state income tax, $7,570 of Social Security tax, and $14,800 of federal income tax from Shauna's
paychecks throughout the year.
d. In 2022, Shauna was due a refund of $280 for overpaying her 2021 state taxes. On her 2021 state tax return that she
filed in April 2022, she applled the overpayment toward her 2022 state tax llability. She estimated that her state tax
Ilability for 2022 will be $2,375.
e. Shauna paid $3,275 of property taxes on her personal residence. She also pald $530 to the developer of her
subdivision because he had to replace the sidewalk in certaln areas of the subdivision.
f. Shauna paid a $230 property tax based on the state's estimate of the value of her car.
g. Shauna has a home mortgage loan in the amount of $235,000 that she secured when she purchased her home. The
home is worth about $415,000. Shauna pald interest of $12,600 on the loan this year.
h. Shauna made several charitable contributions throughout the year. She contributed stock in ZYX Corporation to the
Red Cross. On the date of the contrlbution, the falr market value of the donated shares was $1,300 and her basis in the
shares was $520. Shauna originally bought the ZYX Corporation stock in 2009. Shauna also contributed $330 cash to
State University and religlous artifacts she has held for several years to her church. The artifacts were valued at $530
and Shauna's basis in the Items was $330. Shauna had every reason to belleve the church would keep them on display
Indefinitely. Shauna also drove 200 miles doing church-related errands for her minister. Finally, Shauna contributed
$1,275 of services to her church last year.
I. Shauna paid $280 in Investment advisory fees and another $180 to have her tax return prepared (that is, she pald $180
In 2022 to have her 2021 tax return prepared).
J. Shauna is involved in horse racing as a hobby. During the year, she won $2,575 in prize money and incurred $13,000 in
expenses. She has never had a profitable year with her horse-racing activitles, so she acknowledges that this is a
hobby for federal Income tax purposes.
k. Shauna sustained $2,075 in gambling losses over the year (mostly horse-racing bets) and had only $230 in winnings.
b-1. Assume Shauna's AGI Is $222,000. Determine Shauna's taxable income.
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