What Is the Relationship Between Taxable Income and AMTI

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What is the relationship between taxable income and AMTI?
The indirect method, rather than the direct method, is normally used to calculate the AMT (i.e., the starting point is taxable income).

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Definitions:

Binary Form

Binary Form is a way of structuring a piece of music in two related sections, both of which are usually repeated. This term is also used in computing to describe data represented in two states such as 0 and 1.

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit; a component of a computer processor that performs arithmetic and logical operations.

Eight-Byte String

A sequence of data consisting of eight bytes, which can represent a variety of data types, including characters or numerical values.

Bit

Short for binary digit (0s and 1s), the only data that a CPU can process.