XYZ is a calendar$-$year corporation that began business on January $1,2023.$ For the year, it reported the following information in its current$-$year audited income statement. Notes with important tax information are provided below. Use Exhibit $16-6.$

XYZ corporation Income statement For current year Book Income

Revenue from sales $ $40,000,000$

Cost of Goods Sold $(27,000,000)$

Gross profit $ $13,000,000$

Other income:

Income from investment in corporate stock $300,0001$Footnote $1$

Interest income $20,0002$Footnote $2$

Capital gains $($losses$)(4,000)$

Gain or loss from disposition of fixed assets $3,0003$Footnote $3$

Miscellaneous income $50,000$

Gross Income $ $13,369,000$

Expenses:

Compensation $(7,500,000)4$Footnote $4$

Stock option compensation $(200,000)5$Footnote $5$

Advertising $(1,350,000)$

Repairs and Maintenance $(75,000)$

Rent expense $(22,000)$

Bad Debt expense $(41,000)6$Footnote $6$

Depreciation $(1,400,000)7$Footnote $7$

Warranty expenses $(70,000)8(70,000)$ to the power of $8$

Charitable donations $(500,000)9$Footnote $9$

Meals $(36,000)$

Goodwill impairment $(30,000)10$Footnote $10$

Organizational expenditures $(44,000)11$Footnote $11$

Other expenses $(140,000)12$Footnote $12$

Total expenses $ $(11,408,000)$

Income before taxes $ $1,961,000$

Provision for income taxes $(400,000)13$Footnote $13$

Net Income after taxes $ $1,561,000$

$1$Footnote $1$XYZ owns $30\%$ of the outstanding Hobble Corporation $($HC$)$ stock. Hobble Corporation reported $$1,000,000$ of income for the year. XYZ accounted for its investment in HC under the equity method, and it recorded its pro rata share of HC$\text{'}$s earnings for the year. HC also distributed a $$200,000$ dividend to XYZ$.$ For tax purposes, HC reports the actual dividend received as income, not the pro rata share of HC$\text{'}$s earnings.

$2$Footnote $2$Of the $$20,000$ interest income, $$5,000$ was from a City of Seattle bond, $$7,000$ was from a Tacoma City bond, $$6,000$ was from a fully taxable corporate bond, and the remaining $$2,000$ was from a money market account.

$3$Footnote $3$This gain is from equipment that XYZ purchased in February and sold in December $($i$.$e$.,$ it does not qualify as $1231$ gain$).$

$4$Footnote $4$This includes total officer compensation of $$2,500,000($no one officer received more than $$1,000,000$ compensation$).$

$5$Footnote $5$This amount is the portion of incentive stock option compensation that was expensed during the year $($recipients are officers$).$

$6$Footnote $6$XYZ actually wrote off $$27,000$ of its accounts receivable as uncollectible.

$7$Footnote $7$Tax depreciation was $$1,900,000.$

$8$Footnote $8$In the current year, XYZ did not make any actual payments on warranties it provided to customers.

$9$Footnote $9$XYZ made $$500,000$ of cash contributions to charities during the year.

$10$Footnote $10$On July $1$ of this year, XYZ acquired the assets of another business. In the process, it acquired $$300,000$ of goodwill. At the end of the year, XYZ wrote off $$30,000$ of the goodwill as impaired.

$10$Footnote $10$XYZ expensed all of its organizational expenditures for book purposes. XYZ expensed the maximum amount of organizational expenditures allowed for tax purposes.

$12$Footnote $12$The other expenses do not contain any items with book$$tax differences.

$13$Footnote $13$This is an estimated tax provision $($federal tax expense$)$ for the year. Assume that XYZ is not subject to state income taxes.

Estimated tax information:

XYZ made four equal estimated tax payments totaling $$360,000($$$90,000$ per quarter$).$ For purposes of estimated tax liabilities, assume XYZ was in existence in $2022$ and that in $2022$ it reported a tax liability of $$500,000.$ During $2023,$ XYZ determined its taxable income at the end of each of the first three quarters as follows:

Quarter$-$end Cumulative taxable income $($loss$)$

First $ $400,000$

Second $ $1,100,000$

Third $ $1,400,000$

Finally, assume that XYZ is not a large corporation for purposes of estimated tax calculations.

a$.$ Compute XYZ$\text{'}$s taxable income.

b$.$ Compute XYZ$\text{'}$z income tax liability.