Sean, a shareholder of Crimson Corporation, is single and in the $35\%$ tax bracket. This year, he receives a $$7,000$ qualified dividend from Crimson. Sean has investment interest expense of $$16,000$ snd net investment income of $$9,000($not including the qualified dividend$).$ Assume that Sean does not expect to have any investment income in the forseeable future and the preferential tax rate is $15\%.$

Complete the following statements to determine if Sean should treat the distribution as a qualified dividend $($subject to a $15\%$ tax rate$)$ or classify it as net investment income.

Excluding the dividend from net investment income yields a current$-$year tax of $$1,050$ and a tax savings in the future of $\_\_\_\_\_$ for Sean.