Income Tax Fundamentals 2020 (with Intuit Proconnect Tax Online)
Income Tax Fundamentals 2020 (with Intuit Proconnect Tax Online)
38th Edition
ISBN: 9780357108239
Author: Gerald E. Whittenburg, Martha Altus-Buller, Steven Gill
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 6, Problem 15P
To determine

Introduction:Some of the individual taxpayers are subjected to two parallel tax calculations, a regular tax and the alternate minimum tax. The alternate minimum tax AMT is designed to ensure that wealthy taxpayers could not take advantage of special tax write-offs to avoid payment of taxes. Taxpayers must pay the higher of the regular tax and AMT.

The simplified formula to calculate AMT.

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