SEP, a calendar year corporation, reported $918,000 net income before tax on its current year financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. The corporation's records reveal the following information: SEP incurred $75,000 of domestic research costs that resulted in a new 17-year patent for the corporation. SEP expensed these costs for book purposes. SEP's depreciation expense per books was $98,222, and its MACRS depreciation deduction was $120,000. SEP was organized two years ago. For its first taxable year, it capitalized $27,480 start-up costs and elected to amortize them over 180 months. For book purposes, it expensed the costs in the year incurred. Required: Compute SEP's taxable income. Note: Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign. Do not round intermediate computations. Round final answers to the nearest whole dollar. Amount SEP's net book income before tax $ 918,000 Adjustments: Research costs Depreciation Amortization SEP's taxable income (21,778) (1,832)