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tax problem (homework)

JoPh

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does anyone have those tax software programs and can enter this in for me?

im trying to do it by hand on the 1040 but i have no idea what im doing.

1. Alice is a divorced woman with two children (for whom she can claim exemptions) and no alimony, who made $33,000 in 2004 in a factory job. Her only other income for the year was $1,250 in interest on her savings account. Compute her federal income tax for 2004, taking account of the Child Tax Credit (line 51 of Form 1040) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (line 65a of form 1040), and assuming that she files as a head of household and takes the standard deduction.

2. Suppose that Alice had earned an extra $1000 in overtime pay. By how much would her federal income tax have risen? What is Alices effective marginal tax rate?
 
i have no idea how to do taxes. im not a freakin accountant. the teacher doesnt know what hes doing either.
 
Originally posted by: JoPh
i have no idea how to do taxes. im not a freakin accountant. the teacher doesnt know what hes doing either.


Why wuold you be given this homework randomly, then?
 
Originally posted by: beer
Originally posted by: JoPh
i have no idea how to do taxes. im not a freakin accountant. the teacher doesnt know what hes doing either.


Why wuold you be given this homework randomly, then?

No crap. Are you also incapable of doing your own taxes?
 
cause my teacher is a moron. here the the next email he sent out

On further examining the tax rules, I discovered that the answer to the homework problem is not what I thought, and the correct answer is less interesting than I thought. I will leave the assignment as it is, but I wanted you to know that if you should wonder why I asked the question when the correct answer is not very interesting, that the reason is that I did not understand the answer when I sent out the question.

Prof. Tideman
 
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