A Consolidated NOL Carryover Is $52,000 at the Beginning the Year.Twenty-Five

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Essay

A consolidated NOL carryover is $52,000 at the beginning the year.Twenty-five percent of the loss is allocable to Duke Corporation.Duke Corporation leaves the group in the middle of the affiliated group's tax year.Before Duke's departure,it had earnings of $15,000 for the year,and the remainder of the affiliated group earned a total of $25,000,or $40,000 of taxable income for the group,excluding any NOL carryover.Following its departure from the affiliated group,Duke earned $8,000 in its first separate return.How much of the $52,000 NOL can Duke use on its first separate return?

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Definitions:

Discriminative Stimulus

A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response is reinforced, helping to differentiate it from other stimuli where the response would not be reinforced.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the likelihood of a behavior is increased or decreased through reinforcement or punishment.

Reinforcement

A process in behavioral psychology that increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated, through positive or negative stimuli.

Discriminative Stimulus

A stimulus in the environment that increases the probability of a particular behavioral response due to its association with a reinforcement or punishment.