On November 1, 2001 Zamfir Company, a U. S. corporation, purchased minerals from a Russian company for 2,000,000 rubles, payable in 3 months. The relevant exchange rates between the U. S. and Russian currencies are given: Spot rate Forward rate (at February 1, 20x2) November 1, 20x1 $0.348 $0.348 December 31, 20x1 0.359 $0.352 February 1, 20x2 0.344 The company's incremental borrowing rate provides a discount rate of 0.975 for three months. Assume that on November 1, 2001 Zamfir Company enters a forward contract to buy 2,000,000 rubles on February 1, 2002. What is the fair value of the forward contract on December 31, 2001

Jacob is a member of wcc (an llc taxed as a partnership). jacob was allocated $155,000 of business income from wcc for the year. jacob’s marginal income tax rate is 37 percent. the business allocation is subject to 2.9 percent of self-employment tax and 0.9 percent additional medicare tax. (round your intermediate calculations to the nearest whole dollar a) what is the amount of tax jacob will owe on the income allocation if the income is not qualified business income? b) what is the amount of tax jacob will owe on the income allocation if the income is qualified business income (qbi) and jacob qualifies for the full qbi duduction?

In 2015, lori assigned a paid-up whole life insurance policy to an irrevocable life insurance trust (ilit) for the benefit of her three children. the ilit contained a crummey provision for the benefit of each child. at the time of the transfer, the whole life insurance policy was valued at $200,000, and since lori had not made any other taxable gifts during her lifetime, she did not owe any gift tax. lori died in 2016, and the face value of the whole life insurance policy of $2,000,000 was paid to the ilit. regarding this transfer, how much is included in lori’s gross estate at her death?

Martha entered into a contract with terry, an art dealer. according to the contract, terry was to supply 18 th century artifacts to martha for the play she was directing, and martha was ready to pay $50,000 for this. another director needed the same artifacts and was ready to pay $60,000. terry decided not to sell the artifacts to martha. in this case, the court may order terry to: