Kerri, a Single Taxpayer Who Itemizes Deductions on Schedule A

question 67

Essay

Kerri, a single taxpayer who itemizes deductions on Schedule A, incurs $20,000 of interest expense on funds borrowed to acquire taxable bonds. Kerri also has $22,500 of taxable interest income for the year. Assume Kerri is in a 32 percent marginal tax bracket. How much of the interest expense can she deduct? Assuming the same facts except that the $22,500 of investment income is a qualifying dividend rather than taxable interest income, what should Kerry do if she wants to minimize her current-year tax liability?

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Definitions:

Mutual Funds

Investment funds that pool money from many investors to purchase a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, or other securities.

Hedge Funds

Private investment funds that use a range of strategies to achieve returns, including diversification, leveraging, and derivatives.

Treynor Measure

A performance metric for determining how well an investment portfolio compensates the investor for taking risk, relative to the market as a whole.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation of a set of values from its mean, indicating how spread out the values are.