Using the married filing jointly status and their income and expense statement, calculate the

20142014

tax liability for Shameka and Curtis Williams. First use the standard deduction, and then use the following itemized deductions:

Income			Expenses
Earned income	$52 comma 000.0052,000.00		Home mortgage interest	$7 comma 600.007,600.00
Interest income	1 comma 700.001,700.00		Real estate and state income taxes	3 comma 850.003,850.00
			Miscellaneous deductions	600.00600.00

Explain to the Williams which method they should use and why.

Shameka and Curtis' total gross income for the

20142014

tax year is

$nothing.