Biology Science and Imagination Writing Discusion Read the Material I provided in attachment files: I Contain Multitudes Chapter 3 Here are the main crite

Biology Science and Imagination Writing Discusion Read the Material I provided in attachment files: I Contain Multitudes Chapter 3

Here are the main criteria for the essay reflections for I Contain Multitudes:

At least a five hundred word essay & 12 point font & double spaced

*Write about 3 to 6 interesting ideas that you learned about in the chapter and explain why you found them interesting.

Or how they apply to what we are learning.

Or how they reveal the way scientists work. Or any other aspect you find relevant to comment on.

Or something you read that contradicts what you thought about a certain topic or science idea.

Or describe a new technique or form of technology that is being described in the chapter.

Or anything that surprised you in the reading and why it surprised you

Or did the reading correct a misconception about something you had learned earlier in your life?

Or Summarize the chapter, each example story or research would have 1-2 paragraphs.

Usually the essay is 1.5 to 2.5 pages long.

Remember I need to “hear” YOUR voice in the essay.

Try to use simple words (avoid to high level english vocab) as possible as you can Mimi’s Cupcakes Tax Research Memorandum
Due Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm
Tuesday, July 21
Purpose: The purpose of this is to enable you to meet the following
goals:
•
•
•
•
Understand the role of a tax practitioner
Identify the tax issues involved in a scenario
Be able to conduct comprehensive tax research utilizing on-line tools in order to
formulate a solution to the issues raised.
Be able to articulate and defend a tax position in writing.
Task: In order to successfully complete this assignment you must:
•
Prepare a memorandum to the tax manager outlining the information you found
in your research.
•
Format the memo to include:
o Restatement of Facts (paraphrase)
o Identify at least three main issues based on these facts
o Provide a conclusion for each issue
o Include the analysis that led you to the conclusion for each issue. This
analysis should refer to the primary authority that best addresses the
issue.
o Primary authority would include items such as the Internal Revenue
Code, Regulations, Court Cases, etc. These also should be paraphrased in
order to highlight your understanding of the primary authority and how it
relates specifically to the issue.
•
Submit the assignment using a Turnitin assignment dropbox.
o
o
o
Turnitin, is an online resource that checks your work against: the submissions of
others, books, articles, tax code, etc., in order to verify originality of your
content. Given that everyone in the course is working on the same problem and
using the same format, the service will likely find some similarity in your
paper. Upon submission you will be able to see your score immediately, as
others submit their papers your score may increase. Should you resubmit your
paper, the originality score will not be viewable for 12-24 hours.
I use the information supplied by TurnItIn as well as my professional judgment to
determine the originality of your paper.
As a general rule, however, any memo receiving a Turnitin score higher than 20-25% will
be considered plagiarized and earn a grade of 0. I will accept late assignments for no
more than 48 hours after the due date, with a 20% penalty.
Page 1 of 6
Mimi’s Cupcakes Tax Research Memorandum
Due Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm
The writing assignment will be graded based on grammar, style of writing, logical development of
ideas, critical thinking skills, and technical accuracy of the analysis and conclusions, using a
rubric, which is found below.
Rubric to be used for grading
Content
35 points
Expert
Average
Novice
35
32
28
Contains ALL of the
following:
-All issues identified and
thoroughly analyzed;
-Conclusion and/or
recommendation
offered
20
Completeness
20 points
Readability
25 points
Contains ALL of the
following:
-Thorough analysis
-Proper primary
authority citation used
including items other
than code sections.
Contains ANY of the
following:
Identified most of the
relevant issues.
Conclusions not
offered for each issue
17
Contains ANY of the
following:
-Good Analysis most
issues addressed
-Most issues contain
primary authority of
Code Sections.
25
22
Contains ALL of the
following:
-Well written easy to
follow clearly discusses
issues;
-Followed
recommended format.
Contains ANY of the
following:
-Some areas include
awkward wording or
phrasing;
-Grammatical errors;
-Did not follow
recommended format.
Contains ANY of the
following:
Several relevant issues
not addressed
No conclusions offered
15
Contains ANY of the
following:
-Did not research
important issues;
-Incomplete analysis; -Primary authority not
cited
18
Contains ANY of the
following:
-Difficult to read
-Numerous
grammatical errors
Page 2 of 6
Mimi’s Cupcakes Tax Research Memorandum
Due Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm
Your business tax client, Mimi Charpentier, operates a successful sole proprietorship which sells
cupcakes to retail customers at three locations in Las Vegas. Mimi’s Cupcakes does not carry
any inventories, because of the nature of its products. Mimi owns the three small buildings in
which the shops exist. One of the stores is slightly larger than the others; it is Mimi’s original
location, and it still is the site of the kitchen and the loading dock where the Cupcakes trucks
daily pick up and deliver merchandise and supplies.
The work force of each store is the equivalent of 2.5 employees; the employees are paid
reasonably well, and the low-pressure atmosphere of the typical workday results in a very low
turnover rate. Mimi’s offers only one fringe benefit to the employees – it encourages the
employees to use Health Savings Accounts for their medical costs, and Mimi’s reimburses the
employee for the out-of-pocket deductible amounts, to a $2,000 maximum per employee per
calendar year.
Mimi’s attorney, Gloria Willis, has urged Mimi to incorporate
the business, primarily because of the limited shareholder
liability associated with corporate status, and to facilitate a
business succession plan for the operation. After several
years of discussions, Mimi has agreed to go ahead with this
idea. She will take a sixty percent ownership interest in the
common stock of the new entity; twenty percent interests
will be made available to Mimi’s daughter Nancy, and to Joan
Price, the chief operating officer of the business, who is not
related to the other two shareholders.
Mimi has operated the business as a cash basis sole proprietorship since 2009, and she
anticipates incorporating the business on January 1 of next year. A summarized projected
balance sheet for the business as of December 31 is attached.
I
Willis’ practice consists of general work with small business clients. She is not by any means
conversant with the federal income tax rules as they apply to individuals and C corporations. In
this process, Willis is concentrating on the establishment of the new corporate entity, the
retitling of assets as they are transferred from the proprietorship to the corporation, and the
mechanics of creating and issuing shares to the new shareholders.
Page 3 of 6
Mimi’s Cupcakes Tax Research Memorandum
Due Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm
In your interviews with the three shareholders, you discover
that Mimi’s life expectancy is about two years from the date
of incorporation. Nancy recently graduated from community
college in restaurant and hospitality management, with an
emphasis in financial recordkeeping. Joan is about fifty
years old, in good health, and planning to remain in charge
of operating decisions for the three stores for the
foreseeable future. Neither Mimi nor Joan projects that
the corporation would add a fourth store, nor would it
expand outside of Las Vegas, but the parties review these
issues at least once a year.
The proprietorship does not carry any debt; its trade
payables and receivables are disposed of in a timely fashion. Its web site allows for remote
ordering, scheduled pickups, and deliveries of larger orders to customer locations. Mimi’s is
active on Twitter and Facebook, where the company has about five thousand friends. This
presence allows Mimi’s to plan and carry out “spontaneous” outdoor events on the stores’
patios, where high-markup products are made available in plentiful quantities.
As Mimi has told you several times, “this is a simple business, and we know how to keep our
customers happy and coming back on a regular basis. I do not want the legal etc. aspects of an
incorporation to disrupt the good thing that we have here.” But, in your dealings with Mimi
over the years concerning her Forms 1040 and employment tax obligations, you know that she
expects you to give her suggestions about how her tax liabilities would be affected by decisions
that she makes, and that she expects to “get it right the first time” when she makes her choices.
At Mimi’s latest appointment with her cardiologist, Cathy Duvall MD mentioned that her own
clinic was about to incorporate, but that Duvall would retain her individual ownership of the
clinic’s land and building. Duvall was certain that there were tax and legal advantages to
structuring the corporation that way, but she could not really explain to Mimi what those
advantages were.
Required:
You will be meeting shortly with Mimi, Nancy, and Joan to discuss the tax aspects of the
incorporation, be sure to review the various options available for operating the business and the
tax consequences of these options.
Mimi certainly will ask you to cover the issue of which assets to contribute to the new
corporation, with the explanations that Duvall could not provide. Concentrate on those issues
for this meeting, offering at least two alternative plans for the asset transfers be sure to include
computation of tax effect of the alternative plans.
At the meeting, Nancy will look to you for information on issues of asset basis, as well as any
effects that the incorporation might have on sales/use and self-employment tax obligations.
Ignore any exposure to the corporate or individual alternative minimum tax, though.
Page 4 of 6
Mimi’s Cupcakes Tax Research Memorandum
Due Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm
The “elephant in the room” will be the issue of Mimi’s continued involvement in the business.
You should be prepared with some initial suggestions as to business succession planning, and
the later transferability of the shares in Mimi’s Cupcakes Inc.
Page 5 of 6
Mimi’s Cupcakes Tax Research Memorandum
Due Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 11:59 pm
Projected Balance Sheet ($K)
Mimi Charpentier, dba Mimi’s Cupcakes
December 31
Cash
Displays,(furniture
Office(equipment,(financial(records
Trucks
Land,(buildings
Mimi’s(recipe(database
Original(Cost
Tax(Basis
10
30
5
80
950
0
10
20
0
25
490
0
Fair(Market(
Value
10
20
5
35
785
80
Page 6 of 6

Purchase answer to see full
attachment