Assume OzCpy is an Australian firm whose shares trade on the ASX. The firm earn part of its domestically income in Australia and and part of its income overseas, where it is required to pay tax to the foreign governments where it operates. Currently, the Australian corporate tax rate is 30% and the Medicare levy is 2%. OzCpy provides dividend imputation to Australian-resident shareholders from its Australian tax paid.Assume that OzCpy pays a 88% partly-franked dividend of $13.4 thousand to an Australian shareholder who has a marginal tax rate of 45% and who is exempt from paying the Medicare levy. Compute the income tax payable by this investor on the partly-franked dividend
Question
Assume OzCpy is an Australian firm whose shares trade on the ASX. The firm earn part of its domestically income in Australia and and part of its income overseas, where it is required to pay tax to the foreign governments where it operates. Currently, the Australian corporate tax rate is 30% and the Medicare levy is 2%. OzCpy provides dividend imputation to Australian-resident shareholders from its Australian tax paid.Assume that OzCpy pays a 88% partly-franked dividend of $13.4 thousand to an Australian shareholder who has a marginal tax rate of 45% and who is exempt from paying the Medicare levy. Compute the income tax payable by this investor on the partly-franked dividend
Solution
To calculate the income tax payable by the investor on the partly-franked dividend, we first need to understand what a partly-franked dividend is. A partly-franked dividend is a dividend that is paid by a company out of profits on which the company has paid tax, but not at the full company tax rate. In this case, OzCpy has paid 88% of the company tax rate on the dividend.
Here are the steps to calculate the income tax payable:
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Calculate the grossed-up dividend: This is the dividend amount divided by the franking level, which gives us the pre-tax profit that the dividend was paid out of. In this case, the grossed-up dividend is 15.23 thousand.
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Calculate the franking credit: This is the tax the company has already paid on the dividend. It's the grossed-up dividend minus the dividend amount. In this case, the franking credit is 13.4 thousand = $1.83 thousand.
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Calculate the taxable income: This is the grossed-up dividend plus the franking credit. In this case, the taxable income is 1.83 thousand = $17.06 thousand.
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Calculate the tax payable: This is the taxable income multiplied by the investor's marginal tax rate. In this case, the tax payable is 7.68 thousand.
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Subtract the franking credit: The investor gets a credit for the tax the company has already paid. So the final tax payable is the tax calculated in step 4 minus the franking credit. In this case, the final tax payable is 1.83 thousand = $5.85 thousand.
So, the income tax payable by the investor on the partly-franked dividend is $5.85 thousand.
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