UPI Industries Ltd$.,$ a Canadian corporation with a head office in Nova Scotia, has recently been designated a public corporation. Its shares are traded on the TSX Venture Exchange. Over the past year, the company has pursued an aggressive expansion policy. Sales personnel based at head office have travelled to North Dakota and Minnesota and have achieved moderate success in developing new customers in the United States. In addition, the company has opened a branch location in Alberta by establishing an office and manufacturing plant staffed by new Alberta personnel. The Alberta manufacturing plant is the company$$s first venture into manufacturing.

Selected financial information for the company$$s current fiscal period is presented in the following chart.

Head office Alberta branch

Canadian sales $ $9,317,000$ $ $1,730,300$

Foreign sales $850,0000$

Cost of sales $6,149,2001,211,200$

Salaries and wages $1,597,200266,200$

Profit from operations $1,597,20013,300$

Dividend income $106,5000$

Taxable capital gains $93,2000$

At the end of the previous year, the company had net capital losses of $$119,800$ and non$-$capital losses of $$159,700$ that were available for carry$-$forward.

The Alberta branch location includes a building and equipment. The company$$s accountant is in the process of determining the corporation$$s tax liability and indicates that the annualized cost of manufacturing capital employed in the Alberta branch is $$200,000$ and that the corporation$$s total annualized cost of tangible property used amounts to $$800,000.$ The accountant also indicates that the manufacturing labour in the Alberta branch amounts to $$120,000.$ This amount has been calculated in accordance with the income tax rules for determining manufacturing labour.

The assumed provincial corporate income tax rate is $16\%$ in Nova Scotia and $12\%$ in Alberta.

Required:

$1.$ For the current year, determine UPI$$s

$($a$)$ net income for tax purposes;

$($b$)$ taxable income; and

$($c$)$ federal and provincial tax liabilities.