Gwinnett barbecue sauce corporation manufactures a specialty barbecue sauce. gwinnett has the capacity to manufacture and sell 10,000 cases of sauce each year but is currently only manufacturing and selling 9,000. the following costs relate to annual operations at 9,000 cases: total cost variable manufacturing cost $126,000 fixed manufacturing cost $45,000 variable selling and administrative cost $18,000 fixed selling and administrative cost $27,000 gwinnett normally sells its sauce for $30 per case. a local school district is interested in purchasing gwinnett's excess capacity of 1,000 cases of sauce but only if they can get the sauce for $15 per case. this special order would not affect regular sales or total fixed costs or variable costs per unit. if this special order is accepted, gwinnett's profits for the year will:

Tara incorporates her sole proprietorship, transferring it to newly formed black corporation. the assets transferred have an adjusted basis of $240,000 and a fair market value of $300,000. also transferred was $10,000 in liabilities, $1,000 of which was personal and the balance of $9,000 being business related. in return for these transfers, tara receives all of the stock in black corporation. a. black corporation has a basis of $241,000 in the property. b. black corporation has a basis of $240,000 in the property. c. tara’s basis in the black corporation stock is $241,000. d. tara’s basis in the black corporation stock is $249,000. e. none of the above.

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

Suppose that the free states of eldricia, a small nation, has consumption, investment, government purchases, imports, and exports as follows. consumption $140 investment $50 government purchases $45 imports $30 exports $15 calculate the free states of eldricia's gdp