Wally is employed as an executive with Pay More Incorporated. To entice Wally to work for Pay More, the corporation loaned him $$20,000$ at the beginning of the year at a simple interest rate of $1$ percent. Wally would have paid interest of $$2,400$ this year if the interest rate on the loan had been set at the prevailing federal interest rate.

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Wally used the funds as a down payment on a speedboat and repaid the $$20,000$ loan $($including $$200$ of interest$)$ at year$-$end.

a$-1.$ Does this loan result in any income to either party?

a$-2.$ Indicate the amount of income resulting from the loan to either party.

Assume instead that Pay More forgave the loan and interest on December $31.$ What amount of gross income does Wally recognize this year?