Thirty true-false statements appear below. You must answer all of them. For each statement you answer, insert " T " or " F " in the appropriate space on the separate answer sheet. 1. For income tax purposes, improvements made by a lessee (tenant) are income to the lessor (landlord) upon termination of the lease when the premises are returned to the lessor. 2. Cash charitable contributions of less than $250 can only be deducted if the taxpayer has a cancelled check evidencing the contribution. 3. A taxpayer whose spouse died during any of the four years preceding the year in question and who has not remarried may file his/her federal income tax return as a surviving spouse if the individual maintains a household with a dependent child or stepchild living in it. 4. During the same year, spouses John and Mary Thomas died simultaneously in an automobile accident. Federal income tax rules permit the filing of a joint Form 1040 for them for the year of death. 5. If an employer paid and deducted 100% of the total contribution costs amounts to fund an employee's pension, all pension plan payments received by the retired employee must be included in his/her gross income. 6. Unreimbursed employee business expenses may be deducted only by an individual who itemizes his/her deductions. 7. A single taxpayer with gross income lower than his/her available standard deduction amount will never be required to file a form 1040 individual income tax return., 8. If proceeds of a life insurance policy are received via surrender of the policy and the cumulative premium cost of the policy exceeds the proceeds amount, the owner of the policy may claim a deduction for the amount of the loss. 9. Investment interest expense may be deducted only to the extent of net investment income; excess interest that cannot be deducted because of this limitation may be carried over indefinitely to future years until deducted. 10. Under the basic MACRS convention, a machine disposed of during the year is deemed to have been disposed of on the last day of the year of actual disposition 11. Under the "qualifying relative" test, a child who provides over 1/2 of his/her own support for the year in question may not be classified as a dependent under a multiple support agreement. 12. A business bad debt is deductible only if the debt is completely worthless. Thirty true-false statements appear below. You must answer all of them. For each statement you answer, insert " T " or " F " in the appropriate space on the separate answer sheet. 1. For income tax purposes, improvements made by a lessee (tenant) are income to the lessor (landlord) upon termination of the lease when the premises are returned to the lessor. 2. Cash charitable contributions of less than $250 can only be deducted if the taxpayer has a cancelled check evidencing the contribution. 3. A taxpayer whose spouse died during any of the four years preceding the year in question and who has not remarried may file his/her federal income tax return as a surviving spouse if the individual maintains a household with a dependent child or stepchild living in it. 4. During the same year, spouses John and Mary Thomas died simultaneously in an automobile accident. Federal income tax rules permit the filing of a joint Form 1040 for them for the year of death. 5. If an employer paid and deducted 100% of the total contribution costs amounts to fund an employee's pension, all pension plan payments received by the retired employee must be included in his/her gross income. 6. Unreimbursed employee business expenses may be deducted only by an individual who itemizes his/her deductions. 7. A single taxpayer with gross income lower than his/her available standard deduction amount will never be required to file a form 1040 individual income tax return., 8. If proceeds of a life insurance policy are received via surrender of the policy and the cumulative premium cost of the policy exceeds the proceeds amount, the owner of the policy may claim a deduction for the amount of the loss. 9. Investment interest expense may be deducted only to the extent of net investment income; excess interest that cannot be deducted because of this limitation may be carried over indefinitely to future years until deducted. 10. Under the basic MACRS convention, a machine disposed of during the year is deemed to have been disposed of on the last day of the year of actual disposition 11. Under the "qualifying relative" test, a child who provides over 1/2 of his/her own support for the year in question may not be classified as a dependent under a multiple support agreement. 12. A business bad debt is deductible only if the debt is completely worthless