SEP, a calendar year corporation, reported $918,000 net income before tax on its current year financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. The corporation's records reveal the following information: • SEP incurred $75,000 of domestic research costs that resulted in a new 17-year patent for the corporation. SEP expensed these costs for book purposes. • SEP's depreciation expense per books was $98,222, and its MACRS depreciation deduction was $120,000. • SEP was organized two years ago. For its first taxable year, it capitalized $27,480 start-up costs and elected to amortize them over 180 months. For book purposes, it expensed the costs in the year incurred. Required: Compute SEP's taxable income. Note: Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign. Do not round intermediate computations. Round final answers to the nearest whole dollar. Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Amount $ 918,000 SEP's net book income before tax Adjustments: Research costs Depreciation Amortization SEP's taxable income $ (75,000) X (21,778)✔ (1,832) 894,340 x

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SEP, a calendar year corporation, reported $918,000 net income before tax on its current year financial statements prepared in
accordance with GAAP. The corporation's records reveal the following information:
• SEP incurred $75,000 of domestic research costs that resulted in a new 17-year patent for the corporation. SEP expensed these
costs for book purposes.
• SEP's depreciation expense per books was $98,222, and its MACRS depreciation deduction was $120,000.
• SEP was organized two years ago. For its first taxable year, it capitalized $27,480 start-up costs and elected to amortize them over
180 months. For book purposes, it expensed the costs in the year incurred.
Required:
Compute SEP's taxable income.
Note: Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign. Do not round intermediate computations. Round final
answers to the nearest whole dollar.
Answer is complete but not entirely correct.
SEP's net book income before tax
Adjustments:
Research costs
Depreciation
Amortization
SEP's taxable income
$
$
Amount
918,000
(75,000) X
(21,778)
(1,832)
894,340 X
Transcribed Image Text:SEP, a calendar year corporation, reported $918,000 net income before tax on its current year financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. The corporation's records reveal the following information: • SEP incurred $75,000 of domestic research costs that resulted in a new 17-year patent for the corporation. SEP expensed these costs for book purposes. • SEP's depreciation expense per books was $98,222, and its MACRS depreciation deduction was $120,000. • SEP was organized two years ago. For its first taxable year, it capitalized $27,480 start-up costs and elected to amortize them over 180 months. For book purposes, it expensed the costs in the year incurred. Required: Compute SEP's taxable income. Note: Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign. Do not round intermediate computations. Round final answers to the nearest whole dollar. Answer is complete but not entirely correct. SEP's net book income before tax Adjustments: Research costs Depreciation Amortization SEP's taxable income $ $ Amount 918,000 (75,000) X (21,778) (1,832) 894,340 X
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