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Can you please help me show the initial tax basis and year end tax basis for each partner in the scenario?

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Fran, Ernie, and Watson formed the TEW General Partnership at the beginning of 2022. Fran and Ernie each contributed $50,000 and Watson transferred an acre of undeveloped land to the partnership. The land had a tax basis of $20,000 and was appraised at $100,000. The land was also encumbered with a $50,000 nonrecourse mortgage for which no one was personally liable. All three partners agreed to split profits and losses equally. At the end of the first year, FEW made a $12,000 principal payment on the mortgage.

This is what I came up with for the intitaial tax basis:

Initail tax bais
Description	Frank	Earnest	Wilma
Cash Contributed	$ 50,000.00	$ 50,000.00
Basis in contributed land			$ 20,000.00
Members share of recourse bank loan
Nonrecourse mortgage in excess of basis in contributed land			$ 30,000.00
Remaining nonrecourse mortgage	$ 5,000.00	$ 5,000.00	$ 10,000.00
Relief from mortgage liability			$ (50,000.00)
member initail outside basis	$ 55,000.00	$ 55,000.00	$ 10,000.00

This is what I have come up with for the year end tax basis but am stuck:

Adjusted Tax Basis
Description	Fran	Ernie	Watson
Initail Outside Basis	$ 55,000.00	$ 55,000.00	$ 10,000.00
+Ordinary Business Income	$ 46,050.00	$ 46,050.00	$ 92,100.00
+Cash contributions	0	0	0
+ Share of tax-exempt income	$82.50	$82.50	$165.00
+ Short term capital gains	$600	$600	$1,200
- Cash Distributions	0	0	0
- Share of nondeductible expenses
- Ordinarty business loss and Seperately Stated Loss items
- Disallowed busines interst expense
Member Tax (outside) basis	$ 101,732.50	$ 101,732.50	$ 103,465.00

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