ACC 317 – Tax Accounting I

OBJECTIVE The objective of this exercise is to perform appropriate research and analysis and to prepare a report with recommendations to a client. The client is an individual who is interested in having has much tax free savings as possible in the form of ROTH accounts. The client is age 62 and his wife is age 63. They file a joint tax return and currently have adjusted gross income of about $300,000. The client’s salary and bonus are about $250,000 per year, the wife is self-employed with about $30,000 in self-employment earnings each year. They do not expect any significant changes in these levels of earnings and income for the next five to eight years. They believe that ROTH accounts are the preferred long-term savings arrangement since all earnings and distributions are tax-free. They do not plan to make any withdrawals or take any distributions from these accounts, hoping to pass their ROTH accounts on to their children as tax-free savings vehicles. They are very interested in knowing how they can maximize the amount of money they can contribute to ROTH accounts and subsequently transfer to their children. The client is very quantitatively oriented and so would be very interested in knowing the actions they should take and the amounts that can be accumulated each year to meet this objective. The client is a participant in his company’s profit-sharing plan which has a cash or deferred arrangement (CODA) or 401(k) feature. He owns a majority of the company’s stock. REFERENCE SOURCES You may use any reference sources available. Primary and secondary sources should be used. For purposes of this project:. Primary sources of tax law include the Constitution, legislative history materials, statues, treaties, Treasury Regulations, IRS Pronouncements, and judicial decisions. Secondary sources include IRS publications, including letter rulings, General Counsel Memoranda, and instructions for completing forms, the Bluebook, tax periodicals, as listed in your textbook, other legal periodicals, treatises, and legal opinions. Tertiary sources include other materials related to the subject. Referencing the website, such as “www.irs.gov”, is not an acceptable reference citation. Such a citation is no difference than referring to the “library”.