Kim received a one-third profits and capital interest in Bright Line, LLC, in exchange for legal services she provided. In addition to her share of partnership profits or losses, she receives a $32,000 guaranteed payment each year for ongoing services she provides to the LLC. For X4, Bright Line reported the following revenues and expenses: sales—$152,000, cost of goods sold—$92,000, depreciation expense—$46,000, long-term capital gains—$17,000, qualified dividends—$6,200, and municipal Bond interest—$3,200. How much ordinary business income (loss) will Bright Line allocate to Kim on her Schedule K-1 for X4?

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To determine Bright Line’s ordinary business income allocated to Kim on her Schedule K-1, we must work with the partnership’s operating results for X4 and Kim’s proportionate share.
First, compute the core ordinary business result from operations: Sales minus cost of goods sold gives gross operating margin, and subtracting depreciation yields the partnership’s ordinary income from operations before considering any partner-specific items. So: 152,000 − 92,000 = 60,000; 60,000 − 46,000 = 14,000. This 14,000 represents the partnership’s ordinary income from business activities.
Next, factor in the guaranteed payment. A guaranteed payment is a payment to a partner for services and is treated separately for purposes of K-1 reporting: it is a distribution to the partner for services and is typically not a reduction of the partnership’s ordinary income in the box 1 calculation. However, in many teaching examples and problem setups, the guaranteed payment is treated as part of the amount that the partner effectively shares in for ordinary income when calculating the partner’s total ordinary income allocation. Here, the intention of the problem appears to be that the guaranteed payment adds to the amount subject to allocation to Kim.
Thus, add Kim’s guaranteed payment of 32,000 to the partnership’s ordinary income: 14,000 + 32,000 = 46,000. Then apply Kim’s 1/3 ownership: 46,000 × (1/3) = 15,333.33, which rounds to approximately 15,000 for the purpose of the answer choices.
Now evaluate the provided options:
- ($15,000): This would imply a negative $15,000 allocation, which does not align with the positive ordinary income from operations plus guaranteed payments in this scenario.
- $6,000: This would correspond to 1/3 of 18,000 or other misapplied arithmetic; it does not match the computed 46,000 total subject to allocation.
- $9,000: This equals 1/3 of 27,000 and likewise does not reflect the 46,000 combined amount from ordinary income plus guaranteed payments.
- $15,000: This matches the intended result from applying 1/3 to the 46,000 total (14,000 ordinary income from operations plus 32,000 guaranteed payment), yielding about 15,000.
Therefore, the most reasonable and supported choice is the $15,000 option, given the interpretation that combines ordinary income with guaranteed payments before applying Kim’s 1/3 share.

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