Income TAX

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ACC 390 – Summer 2019

Name _______________________________________________ Date ________________

1. What is the basic tax formula?

2. What does it mean when a tax is proportional?

3. What does it mean when a tax is progressive?

4. Name the eight major types of taxes.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

f.

g.

h.

5. What is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) responsible for?

6. How do you appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court?

7. What are the components of the Tax Formula?

8. Rita, age 45, earned a salary of $85,000 in the current year. She contributed $4,000 to her traditional Individual Retirement Account (IRA), sold stock held as an investment for a short-term capital loss of $3,000, and paid $5,400 in alimony to her ex-husband (divorce finalized 2018). Determine her Adjusted Gross Income (AGI).

9. What IRS Form do you file with the Tax Formula?

10. What is Gross Income?

11. What is accrual method of accounting?

12. What is cash receipts method of accounting?

13. What is hybrid method of accounting?

14. Name five income sources.

a.

b.

c.

d.

15. Name seven items specifically included in Gross Income.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

f.

g.

ACC 390

Su

mmer

2019

Name _______________________________________________

Date ________________

1.

What is the basic

tax formula?

2.

W

hat does i

t mean

when a tax is

proportional

?

3.

W

hat does it me

a

n when a tax is

progressive

?

4.

N

ame the

eight

major types of taxes.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

f.

g.

h.

5.

What is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

responsible

for?

6.

How do you

appeal

to the U.S. Supreme Cou

rt?

7.

Wha

t are the components of the Tax For

mula?

ACC 390 – Summer 2019

Name _______________________________________________ Date ________________

1. What is the basic tax formula?

2. What does it mean when a tax is proportional?

3. What does it mean when a tax is progressive?

4. Name the eight major types of taxes.

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

f.

g.

h.

5. What is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) responsible for?

6. How do you appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court?

7. What are the components of the Tax Formula?