What Special Adjustment Is Required in Calculating the AMT of a C

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Essay

What special adjustment is required in calculating the AMT of a C corporation that does not apply in calculating the AMT of an individual taxpayer?

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Definitions:

Pareto Efficient

A scenario in which it is impossible to improve the status of any individual or preference without adversely affecting at least one other individual or preference.

Negative Externalities

Costs suffered by a third party as a result of an economic transaction in which they were not involved, such as pollution.

Positive Externalities

Benefits that affect parties who did not choose to incur that benefit.

Pareto Optimal

A state of distributing resources that precludes the possibility of augmenting the status of any participant or preference without detriment to another.