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The Eggers Corporation filed an amended Form 1120, claiming an  additional
$400,000 deduction for payments to a contractor for a prior tax year. The amended return was based on the entity’s interpretation of a Regulation that defined deductible advance payment expenditures. The nature of Eggers’s activity with the contractor did not exactly fit the language of the Regulation. Nevertheless, because so much tax was at stake, Eggers’s tax department decided to broaden its interpretation and claim the deduction.
Eggers’s tax department estimated that there was only a 15% chance that Eggers’s interpretation would stand up to a Tax Court review.
a.     What is the amount of tax penalty that Eggers is risking by taking this position?
b.    What would be the result if there was a 45% chance that Eggers’s interpretation  of the Regulation was  correct?
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