Summary
This chapter introduced income taxes and explained how to calculate an after-tax cash-flow stream so that income taxes can be accurately accounted for in business decisions. With federal, state, and local income taxes combining to take as much as 50% of the profit from an activity, these taxes will clearly have a noticeable impact on profitability. This chapter covered the following major points:
The amounts and timings for most taxes are known in advance, so they can be handled by simply including them as expense cash-flow instances in a proposal's cash-flow stream.
Income taxes are charged against an organization's net income, not its gross revenue. You can't know how much income tax needs to be paid until you know how much profit there ...
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