Seo Yeon is a paid intern working for a small team of four software developers. Each member of the team is facing different deadlines and requires her support at different times—and all of them want to pawn their least enjoyable tasks off on her. Seo Yeon is there to learn and is happy to help out on any tasks they can give her, but she only has 40 hours per work week to offer. Identify the solution that is likely to best allocate her time between the four team members.
A. Seo Yeon should only work on tasks that provide her with the opportunity to further her personal knowledge.
B. Seo Yeon should set up an internal market, allocating 10 hours per week to each team member and allowing them to trade hours among themselves over the course of a month.
C. Seo Yeon should determine which team member is most valuable to the company and allocate all 40 hours to that team member.
D. Seo Yeon should allocate 10 hours per week to each team member and ensure that her time is distributed fairly between the team members each week.

9. tax types: taxes are classified based on whether they are applied directly to income, called direct taxes, or to some other measurable performance characteristic of the firm, called indirect taxes. identify each of the following as a “direct tax,” an “indirect tax,” or something else: a. corporate income tax paid by a japanese subsidiary on its operating income b. royalties paid to saudi arabia for oil extracted and shipped to world markets c. interest received by a u.s. parent on bank deposits held in london d. interest received by a u.s. parent on a loan to a subsidiary in mexico e. principal repayment received by u.s. parent from belgium on a loan to a wholly owned subsidiary in belgium f. excise tax paid on cigarettes manufactured and sold within the united states g. property taxes paid on the corporate headquarters building in seattle h. a direct contribution to the international committee of the red cross for refugee relief i. deferred income tax, shown as a deduction on the u.s. parent’s consolidated income tax j. withholding taxes withheld by germany on dividends paid to a united kingdom parent corporation

Melissa is a very generous single woman. before this year, she had given over $11,400,000 in taxable gifts over the years and has completely exhausted her applicable credit amount. in the current year, melissa gave her daughter riley $100,000 and promptly filed her gift tax return. melissa did not make any other gifts this year. how much gift tax must riley pay the irs because of this transaction?

Interpreting the income tax expense footnote the income tax footnote to the financial statements of fedex corporation follows. the components of the provision for income taxes for the years ended may 31 were as follows: ($ millions) 2010 2009 2008 current provision domestic federal $ 36 $ (35) $ 514 state and local 54 18 74 foreign 207 214 242 297 197 830 deferred provisions (benefit) domestic federal 408 327 31 state and local 15 48 (2) foreign (10) 7 32 413 382 61 provision for income taxes $ 710 $ 579 $ 891 (a)what is the amount of income tax expense reported in fedex's 2010, 2009, and 2008 income statements?