Jovar Inc, a U

question 20

Multiple Choice

Jovar Inc., a U.S. multinational, began operations this year. Jovar had pretax U.S. source income and foreign source income as follows. Jovar paid $50,000 income tax to Country O. Compute Jovar's U.S. tax liability if it takes the foreign tax credit.

• A) $213,000
• B) $221,000
• C) $204,000
• D) $238,000

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