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1. Grevilla Gerporation is a manufacturing company. The corporation has accumulated earnings of $950,000, and it can establish reasonable needs for $400,000 of that amount. Calculate the amount of the accumulated earnings tax (if any) that Grevilla Corporation is subject to for this year.
2. Cypress Corporation has regular taxable income of $170,000 (assume annual gross receipts are greater than $5 million) and regular tax liability of $49,550 for 2010. The corporation also has tax preference items amounting to $105,000. Calculate Cypress Corporation's alternative minimum tax liability. Assume Cypress Corporation is not a "small corporation."