McGraw-Hill's Taxation of Business Entities 3rd Edition by Connie Weaver, Brian Spilker, Edmund Outslay, John Robinson, Ronald Worsham, Benjamin Ayers, John Barrick

Exercise 47

{Research} After several years of profitable operations, Javell, the sole shareholder of JBD Inc., a C corporation, sold 18 percent of her JBD stock to ZNO Inc., a C corporation in a similar industry..During the current year JBD reports $1,000,000 of after-tax income. JBD distributes all of its after-tax earnings to its two shareholders in proportion to their stockholdings. Assume ZNO's marginal tax rate is 35 percent. How much tax will ZNO pay on the dividend it receives from JBD What is ZNO's overall tax rate on its dividend income [Hint: see IRC §243(a)]