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Estimated Annual Tax RateSupra, Inc., estimates total federal and state tax rates to be 40...

Estimated Annual Tax Rate

Supra, Inc., estimates total federal and state tax rates to be 40 percent. Expected annual pretax earnings from continuing operations are $1,200,000. Differences between tax income and finan­cial statement income are expected to be the following:

Dividend exclusion for dividends received on the company’s

 

stock investments

$70,000

Tax-exempt income received

20,000

Premiums for life insurance on officers for which the company

 

is the beneficiary

12,000

A business tax credit of $40,000 should be available. Supra’s first-quarter pretax earnings are $170,000, which includes an extraordinary loss of $30,000 before any tax effect of the extraordinary loss.

Required

a.Estimate Supra’s effective combined federal and state tax rate on income from continuing oper­ations for the year.


b.Prepare the entry to record the tax provision for the income from continuing operations for the first quarter.

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