MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting, The Financial Chapters (My Accounting Lab)

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Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura

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Chapter 9, Problem 9.1CTEI

Western Bank & Trust purchased land and a building for the lump sum of $3,000,000. To get the maximum tax deduction, Western allocated 90% of the purchase price to the building and only 10% to the land. A more realistic allocation would have been 70% to the building and 30% to the land.

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1. Explain the tax advantage of allocating too much to the building and too little to the land.

2. Was Western’s allocation ethical? If so, state why. If not, why not? Identify who was harmed.

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Solution Summary: The author explains that the tax advantage of allocating too much for building and too little for land is that of charging depreciation on building to the revenue of the business.

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