Larry purchased an annuity from an insurance company that promises to pay him $9,000 per month for the rest of his life. Larry paid $946,080 for the annuity. Larry is in good health, and he is 72 years old. Larry received the first annuity payment of $9,000 this month. Use the expected number of payments in Exhibit 5-1 for this problem. a. How much of the first payment should Larry include in gross income?
b. If Larry lives more than 15 years after purchasing the annuity, how much of each additional payment should he include in gross income?
c. What are the tax consequences if Larry dies just after he receives the 100th payment?

Suppose that hubert, an economist from an am talk radio program, and kate, an economist from a nonprofit organization on the west coast, are arguing over government bailouts. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: kate: to recent financial crises, the concept of bailouts is a hot topic for debate among everyone these days. hubert: indeed, it’s gotten crazy! a government bailout of severely distressed financial firms is unnecessary because free markets will properly price assets. kate: i don’t know about that. without a bailout of severely distressed financial firms, the economy will experience a deep recession. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due todifferences in scientific judgments . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? business managers can raise profit more easily by reducing costs than by raising revenue. central banks should focus more on maintaining low unemployment than on maintaining low inflation. employers should not be restricted from outsourcing work to foreign nations

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Alpha industries is considering a project with an initial cost of $8 million. the project will produce cash inflows of $1.49 million per year for 8 years. the project has the same risk as the firm. the firm has a pretax cost of debt of 5.61 percent and a cost of equity of 11.27 percent. the debt–equity ratio is .60 and the tax rate is 35 percent. what is the net present value of the project?