税务原理课后答案.docVIP

Chapter 7 Questions and Problems for Discussion 1. The tax law presumes that no expenditure is deductible unless a specific statutory rule allows the deduction. Furthermore, if the tax treatment of a business expenditure is uncertain, the expense must be capitalized to an asset account rather than deducted in the computation of taxable income. 2. If a deduction for advertising expense was replaced with 20-year amortization, the after-tax cost of advertising (in present value terms) would increase substantially. Presumably, firms would purchase less advertising or advertising companies would reduce their prices (before-tax cost) in response to such a tax law change. 3. Cost recovery deductions are not based on current cash outflows. In other words, these deductions reduce capitalized costs rather than the firm’s cash account. However, the tax savings from a cost recovery deduction represents a positive cash flow. 4. Cost recovery deductions have no relationship to any decline in value of the property to which the deduction relates. Taxpayers may claim cost recovery deductions even if the value of the property increases over time. 5. Tax basis represents the unrecovered investment in a business asset. If the owner of the asset has recovered her entire investment in the form of cost recovery deductions, the basis of the asset is zero. An asset may not have a negative tax basis. 6. Because land is a nonwasting (nondepreciable) asset, capitalized soil and water conservation expenditures are recovered in the year the land is sold. 7. Because Corporation J’s insurance premiums related to assets used in the production of inventory, the unicap rules require that the premiums be capitalized to inventory rather than deducted. Corporation K is a service business with no inventory. Therefore, its insurance premiums are period rather than product costs and can be deducted. 8. In a period of inflation in which the most recently purchased goods are the mos