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Mike Barton owns Barton Products, Inc. The corporation has 30 employees. Barton Corporation expects $800,000 of net income before taxes in 2012. Mike is married and files a joint return with his wife, Elaine, who has no earnings of her own. They have one dependent son, Robert, who is 16 years old. Mike and Elaine have no other income and do not itemize. Mike's salary is $180,000 per year (already deducted in computing Barton Corporation's $500,000 net income). Assume that variations in salaries will not affect the US production activities deduction already reflected in taxable income.
a. Should Mike increase his salary from Barton by $50,000 to reduce the overall tax burden to himself and Barton Products? Because of the social security cap, the corporation and Mike each would incur a 1.45% payroll tax with the corporate portion being deductible.
b. Should Barton employ Mike's wife Elaine for $50,000 rather than increase Mike's salary? Take into consideration employment taxes as well as federal income taxes. Note that Elaine's salary would be well below the social security cap, so that she and the corporation each would incur the full amount of payroll taxes with the corporate portion being deductible. In 2012, Elaine's portion is 5.65%, and the corporation's is 7.65%. After 2012, Elaine's portion is 7.65%.
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The expert examines payroll tax with the corporate portion being deductibles.
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To complete this Application Assignment, use the dataset anscomb.sav and SPSS to answer the following questions:
Problem 9.1:
a. Produce the scatter plot for x3 and y3. Do you think there are any outliers?
There is a one outlier which is at the top right corner of the scatter plot.
b. Calculate the correlation coefficient (r) for all the data points
Correlations
x3 y3
x3 Pearson Correlation 1 .816**
Sig. (2-tailed) .002
N 11 11
y3 Pearson Correlation .816** 1
Sig. (2-tailed) .002
N 11 11
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
c. What does the p-value in your SPSS output tell you?
Here the P-value is 0.002, it tells us that the correlation is ...
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