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Hansen, Kotter, and Zales is a law firm that contains one service department (Research & Document) and two production departments (Litigation and Consulting). The firm employs a job-order costing system to accumulate costs chargeable to each client. The firm uses actual costing to assign overhead. General overhead costs can be allocated based on either direct attorney hours or the number of employees, depending on managers’ choice. At the end of the year, the records revealed the actual general overhead costs are $720,000. At the end of the year, the records revealed the following costs and operating data for all cases handled during the year:

Research & Document

Litigation

Consulting

# of Employees

10

8

6

Direct Attorney Hours(# of hrs)

3,000

8,000

5,000

Direct Attorney Costs ($)

$150,000

$400,000

$250,000

Direct Material Costs ($)

$16,000

$15,500

$13,500

*** 50% of Research & Department's service is provided to litigation department and the other 50% to consulting department.

Part II Tax Strategy

Now the company spins off its R&D department and sets up a subsidiary in Bahamas. The subsidiary will conduct the research and document work and the parent will pay a property fees to acquire the service. The R&D department in Bahamas will use the same overhead allocation rate as in the parent company. The property fees paid will be recognized as part of costs of service of the parent company. The corporate tax rate in Bahamas is 5%.

A.) Assume the corporate revenue is still 2 million dollars. Assume that general overhead is assigned by direct attorney hours. Compare the tax implications when the property fee is equal to 120% and 150% of the costs of R&D service, respectively.

B.) Compared to the total taxes you calculated for part d, why do we have different tax liabilities in this case?

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