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This year, Sigma Inc. generated $627,000 income from its routine
business operations. In addition, the corporation sold the
following assets, all of which were held for more than 12
months.
InitialBasis | Acc.Depr.* | Sale Price | ||||
Marketable securities | $ | 153,400 | $ | 0 | $ | 72,750 |
Production equipment | 121,600 | 97,280 | 35,250 | |||
Business realty: | ||||||
Land | 168,750 | 0 | 190,000 | |||
Building | 255,000 | 76,500 | 211,000 | |||
*Through date of sale.
Compute Sigma’s taxable income assuming that it used the straight-line method to calculate depreciation on the building and has no nonrecaptured Section 1231 losses. taxable income (???) I post before but was not correct.
Sigma’s gains and losses from sales of business assets are computed below: | |||||
Amount Realized | Adjusted Basis (Initial Basis - Acc. Depreciation) | Realized Gain/(Loss) | Ordinary Gain | Section 1231 Gain/(Loss) | |
Production equipment | $35,250.00 | $24,320.00 | $10,930.00 | $10,930.00 | |
Business land | $190,000.00 | $168,750.00 | $21,250.00 | $21,250.00 | |
Business building | $211,000.00 | $178,500.00 | $32,500.00 | $6,500.00 | $26,000.00 |
Total | $17,430.00 | $47,250.00 | |||
Building ordinary income is 20 percent recapture of the lesser of accumulated depreciation or the realized gain | |||||
Net income from operations | $627,000.00 | ||||
Ordinary income from sales of business assets | $17,430.00 | ||||
Section 1231 gain (treated as capital gain) | $47,250.00 | ||||
Sale of marketable securities: | |||||
Amount realized | $72,750.00 | ||||
Basis | -$153,400.00 | ||||
Realized Loss | -$80,650.00 | ||||
Deductible loss limited to Section 1231 gain | -$47,250.00 | ||||
Taxable income | $644,430.00 | ||||