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1 May 2018

Assistance with Tax Return Assignment questions,please.

Q1: Christen traveled to Tampa for a two day accountingconvention and decided to stay an extra three days fortouring/sightseeing. Travel expense is consisted of: $200 per nighthotel that offers free meals; $400 airfare round-trip; $50 per dayrental car, $30 per day incidental expenses. Christen drove her BMW(purchased on 8/1/2013) for 14,000 total miles in 2016 with 7,500miles for business. Christen utilizes the automatic mileage methodof claiming automobile expenses.

Q2: On January 1, 2013 Tom bought 400 shares ofMicrosoft for $200 per share and had a brokerage fee of $1,000. Tomsold 100 shares for $140 per share on November 12, 2015. Tom thenpurchased 100 shares of the same type of Microsoft stock onDecember 10, 2015 for $138 share. No brokerage fee was incurred onthe 2015 transactions.

He had the following stock sales in 2015:

Date Purchased

Basis

Date Sold

Amount Realized

Stock 1

3/16/1996

$7,850

7/22/2015

$6,500

Stock 2

2/12/2015

15,000

9/13/2015

19,500

Stock 3

6/25/2011

11,750

10/12/2015

15,600

Stock 4

7/19/2006

8,250

10/12/2015

12,800

Stock 5

9/18/2015

9,400

11/26/2015

4,500

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Q1: I assume the Travel expense will be calculated as:

Hotels ($200 × 2) $400
Rental car ($50 × 2) $10

Incidental expenses ($30 x 2) $60

Total expenses $560

If I'm correct were would be the placements on a Tax return?

Q2: I assume it’s not a short-term capital loss instead it's awash sale because the he repurchased the same stock before 30 days.So would be a disallowed loss and added to the new basis of thebought stock. $13,800 + $6000 disallowed loss? I assume stock 1-5are just reported on a 8949 long term since they're realized on2015.

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Reid Wolff
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3 May 2018

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