Question 4

Ziggy’s Inc. is a retailer of highly specialized clothing that opened for business on May 1, 2018, in a leased store in a strip mall. A condensed income statement for Ziggy’s Inc. for its year, ended December 31, 2020, shows the following:

An analysis of the cost of sales account revealed that the inventory is valued at average cost within each of the different styles carried. Since the owner is still learning what has appeal, a “mark-down rack” has become a common fixture at the back of the store. The tagged prices of the mark-downs are less than their costs, at December 31, 2020 by $700. This difference has not been recorded in the financial statements.

Cost of goods sold includes a charge of $1,800 to set up an allowance for returns (at 0.1% of sales) that are not subsequently saleable at full retail price. No such allowance was recorded last year-end because the company only discovered that the allowance was necessary this year.

General and administrative expenses include the following:

Contributions to a registered pension plan made monthly for the two key employees, expensed by the corporation’s accountant, were as follows:

                                        Registered Pension Plan Employment compensation

President and CEO                     $21,000                     $190,000

Store manager                             $12,800                       130,000

The pension plan is a defined contribution (money-purchase) plan. The contributions above were matched by equal contributions made by the employee.

The company paid the following amounts to Sun Insurance Limited during the year:

Group term life insurance for the four full-time employees                                                                                         $2,200

$200,000 term life insurance policy on the president, which was included in the “Insurance” expense account      900

                                                                                                                                                                                                  $3,100

Ziggy’s Inc. is the beneficiary of the insurance policy on the president. The term life insurance policy on the president was assigned to the bank as collateral for a $500,000 loan from January 1 through August 30, 2020. The loan was repaid on September 1, 2020 in favour of an operating line of credit.

The following selected information was taken from the “Promotions” account:

The company’s “Professional expense” account included the following legal and accounting fees:

Accounting fees for yearend work and monthly bookkeeping                                                                 $15,000

Legal fees incurred on the purchase of capital assets during the year                                                     2,000

Legal and accounting fees incurred in connection with negotiations for a line of credit at the bank     4,000

Account total                                                                                                                                                   $21,000

In 2019, the company incurred fees of $1,000 to issue shares to the president and CEO.

Other expenses deducted in the financial accounting computation of income include:

You have correctly determined that Ziggy’s Inc. is entitled to a $50,000 capital cost allowance amount claim in 2020.Added to the capital asset account for leasehold improvements this year is $15,000. This amount represents the store’s share of new landscaping of the strip mall premises that was undertaken after road work was done in front of the mall.

Required:

Based on the foregoing information, compute the income from business for tax purposes for Ziggy’s Inc. for its 2020 fiscal year. Show all calculations whether or not they seem relevant to the final answer.

Comment briefly on why any items were omitted from the calculation.