Alicia and Marie own a vacation home at the beach. During the year, they rented...

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Alicia and Marie own a vacation home at the beach. During the year, they rented the house for 42 days (six weeks) at $890 per week and used it for personal use for 58 days. The total costs of maintaining the home are as follows: Required: a. What is the proper tax treatment of this information on their tax return using the Tax Court method? Note: Use 365 days in a year. Round your intermediate computations to 5 decimal places and final answers to nearest whole dollar value. b. Are there options available for how to allocate the expenses between personal and rental use? Note: You may select more than one answer. Single click the box with the question mark to produce a check mark for a correct answer and double click the box with the question mark to empty the box for a wrong answer. Any boxes left with a question mark will be automatically graded as incorrect. Tax court method IRS method Direct allocation method Appropriation method Only rental method c. What is the proper tax treatment of the rental income and expenses if Alicia and Marie rented the house for only 14 days? Property would be primarily personal, and none of the income would be included and only the interest and taxes would be deductible on Schedule A

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