Jose dies in the current year and has a gross estate valued at $13,000,000 in 2019. Over the past ten years, Jose had made taxable gifts of $400,000. The estate incurs funeral and administrative expenses of $100,000 and also pays off Jose's debts which amount to $300,000. Jose bequeaths $500,000 to his wife. What is the amount of Jose's tax base, the amount on which the estate tax is computed?

Owns a machine that can produce two specialized products. production time for product tlx is two units per hour and for product mtv is four units per hour. the machine’s capacity is 2,100 hours per year. both products are sold to a single customer who has agreed to buy all of the company’s output up to a maximum of 3,570 units of product tlx and 1,610 units of product mtv. selling prices and variable costs per unit to produce the products follow. product tlx product mtv selling price per unit $ 11.50 $ 6.90 variable costs per unit 3.45 4.14 determine the company's most profitable sales mix and the contribution margin that results from that sales mix.