You observe that of late in preference to fixed price issues, more and more book-built issues are becoming the order of the day. Discuss the reasons for this phenomenon.

Explain when and how the built in loss exception works in regards to liquidating distributions. Be thorough in your explanation and provide an example to illustrate your analysis.

Luke and Sarah lived in a house in Albury where they both had permanent jobs. In July 2012 they purchased a rural block of 30 acres for $160,000 with the intention of building a house and moving out of town. In September 2012 they listed their house in Albury for sale at $570,000, however given a downturn in the market the house remained unsold until March 2014 when they finally accepted an offer of $460,000. Settlement took place in April 2014 and they commenced construction on the new house in May 2014. Whilst the house was being built Luke and Sarah rented the Albury house back from the new owners at an amount of $480 per week.

In November 2014 the new house was completed at a cost of $410,000 and Luke and Sarah moved in. Additional costs incurred by them included construction of a road for $15,000, sinking a dam at a cost of $30,000 and connection of electricity at a cost of $40,000. They financed the new property with a home loan of $450,000 payable over 30 years at a rate of 4.20%.

Luke and Sarah began a horse agistment business in January 2015 to which they allocated 20 acres of their property. They constructed fencing to create smaller paddocks, built shade shelters and installed water troughs at a total cost of $80,000. To fund the cost of the improvements they took out a small business loan for $80,000 payable over 10 years at a rate of 5.30%.

In October 2019, Luke was offered a promotion in his job which required them to re-locate to Queensland. They listed the rural property for sale and in December 2019 it sold for an amount of $850,000 with settlement occurring in January 2020 at which time Luke and Sarah moved to Queensland.

Required

Advise Luke and Sarah of the taxation consequences of selling the rural property including whether any taxation exemptions or concessions may apply. You do not need to calculate the amount of any resulting capital gain or loss.

NOTE: this question require answer in ILAC ESSAY format which should include the tax law applicable as per AUSTRALIAN TAXATION LAW in various situation mentioned in question along with appropriate example of cases. no calculation required. this question is related to the Taxation Law subject

Question 1

Luke and Sarah lived in a house in Albury where they both had permanent jobs. In July 2012 they purchased a rural block of 30 acres for $160,000 with the intention of building a house and moving out of town. In September 2012 they listed their house in Albury for sale at $570,000, however given a downturn in the market the house remained unsold until March 2014 when they finally accepted an offer of $460,000. Settlement took place in April 2014 and they commenced construction on the new house in May 2014. Whilst the house was being built Luke and Sarah rented the Albury house back from the new owners at an amount of $480 per week.

In November 2014 the new house was completed at a cost of $410,000 and Luke and Sarah moved in. Additional costs incurred by them included construction of a road for $15,000, sinking a dam at a cost of $30,000 and connection of electricity at a cost of $40,000. They financed the new property with a home loan of $450,000 payable over 30 years at a rate of 4.20%.

Luke and Sarah began a horse agistment business in January 2015 to which they allocated 20 acres of their property. They constructed fencing to create smaller paddocks, built shade shelters and installed water troughs at a total cost of $80,000. To fund the cost of the improvements they took out a small business loan for $80,000 payable over 10 years at a rate of 5.30%.

In October 2019, Luke was offered a promotion in his job which required them to re-locate to Queensland. They listed the rural property for sale and in December 2019 it sold for an amount of $850,000 with settlement occurring in January 2020 at which time Luke and Sarah moved to Queensland.

Required

Advise Luke and Sarah of the taxation consequences of selling the rural property including whether any taxation exemptions or concessions may apply. You do not need to calculate the amount of any resulting capital gain or loss (Australian Tax Law)

Answer should write on ILAC style of essay writing and Names of cases or statutes should be italicised, and followed by the jurisdiction not in italics, for example: Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth).  

13-7: Real Options – Nevada Enterprise is considering buying a vacant lot that sells for $1.2 million. If the property is purchased, the company’s plan is to spend another $5 million today (t = 0). To build a hotel on the property. The cash flows from the hotel will depend critically on whether the state imposes a tourism tax in this year’s legislative session. If the tax is imposed, h the hotel is expected to produce cash flows of $600, 000 at the end of each of the next 15 years. If the tax is not imposed, the hotel is expected to produce cash flows of $1, 200, 000 at the end of each of the next 15 years. The project has a 12% WACC. Assume at the outset that the company does not have the option to delay the project.  

a. What is the project’s expected NPV If the tax is imposed?  

b. What is the project’s expected NPV if the tax is not imposed?  

c. Given that there is a 50% chance that the tax will be imposed, what is the project’s expected NPV if management proceeds  

d. Although the company does not have an option to delay construction, it does have the option to abandon the project 1 year from now if the tax is imposed. If it abandons the project, it will sell the complete property 1 year from now at an expected price of $6 million after taxes. Once the project is abandoned, the company will no longer receive any cash flows. Assuming that all cash flows are discounted at 12%, will the existence of this abandonment option affect the company’s decision to proceed with the project today? Explain.  

e. Finally, assume that there is no option to abandon or delay the project, but that the company has an option to purchase an adjacent property in 1 year at price of $1.5 million (outflow at t =1). If the tourism tax is imposed, the expected net present value of developing this property (as of t =1) will be only $300, 000 (so it doesn’t make sense to purchase the property for $1.5 million. However, if the tax is not imposed, the expected net present value of the future opportunities from developing the property will be $4 million (as of t=1). Thus, under the scenarios, it makes sense to purchase the property for $.5 million (at t=1). Assume that these cash flows are discounted at 12%, and the probability that the tax will be imposed is still 50%. What is the most the company would pay today (t=0) for the $1.5 million purchase options (at t=1) for the adjacent property?  

Nevada Enterprises is considering buying a vacant lot that sells for $1.2 million. If the property is purchased, the company’s plan is to spend another $5 million today (t = 0) to build a hotel on the property. The cash flows from the hotel will depend critically on whether the state imposes a tourism tax in this year’s legislative session. If the tax is imposed, the hotel is expected to produce cash flows of $500,000 at the end of each of the next 15 years. If the tax is not imposed, the hotel is expected to produce cash flows of $1,400,000 at the end of each of the next 15 years. The project has a 12% WACC. Assume at the outset that the company does not have the option to delay the project.

a. What is the project’s expected NPV if the tax is imposed?

b. What is the project’s expected NPV if the tax is not imposed?

c. Given that there is a 55% chance that the tax will be imposed, what is the project’s expected NPV if management proceeds with it today?

d. Although the company does not have an option to delay construction, it does have the option to abandon the project 1 year from now if the tax is imposed. If it abandons the project, it will sell the complete property 1 year from now at an expected price of $6 million after taxes. Once the project is abandoned, the company will no longer receive any cash flows. Assuming that all cash flows are discounted at 12%, will the existence of this abandonment option affect the company’s decision to proceed with the project today? Explain.

e. Finally, assume that there is no option to abandon or delay the project, but that the company has an option to purchase an adjacent property in 1 year at a price of $1.5 million (outflow at t = 1). If the tourism tax is imposed, the expected net present value of developing this property (as of t = 1) will be only $300,000 (so it doesn’t make sense to purchase the property for $1.5 million). However, if the tax is not imposed, the expected net present value of the future opportunities from developing the property will be $4 million (as of t = 1). Thus, under this scenario, it makes sense to purchase the property for $1.5 million (at t = 1). Assume that these cash flows are discounted at 12%, and the probability that the tax will be imposed is still 55%. What is the most the company would pay today (t = 0) for the $1.5 million purchase option (at t = 1) for the adjacent property?

Chapter 8 hand-in Homework
Pat I
A random sample of 15 customers’ waiting time in a bank was selected, giving the following results in minutes:

0.38
2.34
3.02
3.2
3.54
3.79
4.21
4.5
4.77
5.1
5.13
5.55
6.1
6.19
6.46

1) Based on the sample above, what is the point estimate of the true percentage (same as True Population) of customers’ waiting time in a bank?  
2) To estimate the true percentage of customers’ waiting time in a bank, how large a sample must be taken to insure the estimate is off by no more than + 2% with 99% certainty?  

3) What would happen to the sample size above if the error was increased to 4%?  

4) What would happen to the sample size in question 2 above if the error was decreased to 1%?  
Part II
A bottle of water distributor wants to estimate the amount of water contained in 1-gallon bottles purchased from a nationally known water bottling company. The water bottling company’s specifications state that the standard deviation of the amount of water is equal to 0.02 gallon. A random sample of 50 bottle is selected, and the sample mean amount of water per 1-gallon bottle is 0.995 gallon.

Construct a 99% confidence interval estimate for the population mean amount of water included in a 1-gallon bottle.

b) On the basis of these results, do you think that the distributor has a right to complaint to the water bottling company? Why?

c) Must you assume that the population amount of water per bottle is normally distributed? Explain.

Part III
In a survey of 529 travelers, 386 said that location was very important and 323 said that room quality was very important in choosing a hotel.
a) Construct a 95% confidence interval estimate for the population proportion of travelers who said that location was very important for choosing a hotel.
b) The percentage of travelers that said that location was very important for choosing a hotel is a statistic or a parameter? Explain
c) If we need to conduct a follow up study, what sample size is need to estimate the population proportion of travelers who said that location was very important for choosing a hotel with 95% confidence within ± 5%?

1.        Angelo uses the equity method to account for its investment in Fischer on January 1. On the date of acquisition, Fischer’s land and buildings were undervalued on its balance sheet. During the year following the acquisition, how do these excesses of fair values over book values affect Angelo's Equity Income from Fischer?

a. Building, Decrease; Land, No Effect

b. Building, Decrease; Land, Decrease

c. Building, Increase;   Land, Increase

d. Building, Increase;   Land, No Effect

2.         On January 2, 2020, Campbell, Inc. purchased a 20% interest in Renner Corp. for $2,000,000 cash. During 2020, Renner's net income was $2,500,000 and it paid dividends of $750,000.

Equity Investment balance should Campbell report at December 31, 2020?

a. $2,500,000

b. $   500,000

c. $2,350,000

d. $2,150,000

3.        On December 31, 2020, Park Inc. paid $500,000 for all of the common stock of Smith Corp. On that date, Smith had assets and liabilities with book values of $400,000 and $100,000; and fair values of $450,000 and $125,000, respectively.

What amount of goodwill will be reported on the December 31, 2020 balance sheet?

a. $ 50,000

b. $100,000

c. $200,000

d. $175,000

4.         Francis, Inc. acquired 40% of Park's voting stock on January 1, 2020 for $420,000. During 2020, Park earned $120,000 and paid dividends of $60,000. During 2021, Park earned $160,000 and paid dividends of $50,000 on April 1 and $40,000 on December 1. On July 1, 2021, Francis sold half of its stock in Park for $275,000 cash.

The Equity Investment balance at December 31, 2020 is:

a. $420,000

b. $444,000

c. $408,000

d.   $492,000

5.         On January 1, 2020, Cracker Co. purchased 40% of Dallas Corp.'s common stock at book value of net assets. The balance in Cracker's Equity Investment account was $820,000 at December 31, 2020. Dallas reported net income of $500,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020, and paid dividends totaling $150,000 during 2020.

How much did Cracker pay for its 40% interest in Dallas?

a. $680,000

b. $500,000

c. $560,000

d. $760,000

● The Faculty & Staff parking permit allows a car to park in YELLOW and GREEN slots. User

can purchase multiple Faculty & Staffparking permit.

● The Student parking permit allows a car to park in GREEN slots. User can purchase multiple

student parking permit.

● The Resident parking permit allows a car to park in ORANGE and GREEN slots. User can add

a premium package to this kind of permit that allows one of user’s friend to share this permit, but

each user can only purchase one Resident parking permit.

● The Visitor parking permit allows a car to park in ORANGE, YELLOW and GREEN slots.

The permit is only valid for one day and user can only purchase one Visitor parking permit.

User can purchase more than one type of ticket at a time, as many Faculty & Staff and student as

they choose.

Your goal is to write a program that sells the permits and using the existing functions in

hw4a.cpp.

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//      This is the main program that you need to write
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int main ()
{
   // Variable Declarations
   char Choice = '\0';   // what the user enters
   int NumPermits = 0;   // how many permits they want to buy
   int TotalPermits = 0; // total number of permit sold so far
   float Price = 0.0;    // the price of one set of permit
   float TotalPrice = 0.0;    // the total price of all permits
   char ExitChoice = 'N'; //whether or not the user wants to exit


   // Print your name and ID
   cout << "Name: \n"
        <<"ID: \n\n";
                
   // Loop until the user is done
   
      // Print the main menu describing the tickets offered

           
      // Ask the user type what permit they want to purchase next
  
           
      // If the user selects Faculty&Staff parking permit calculate the price of tickets
     
           
      // If the user selects Student parking permit be sure to note the reference parameters
   

      // If the user selects Resident parking permit, ask if they want the premium package
     
           
      // If the user selected visitor parking permit, make sure they decided to order them

           
      // Add the permit price to a running total 
          
          
          //Add the number of permits to a running total  
  
  
          // Ask if they want to continue (Y or N)

          
      // When the loop is done
      // Print out the total number of permits sold, and the amount of all the permits, with a $.

   
   return 0;
}