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How are deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities derived?
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∙ 12y ago
Basically, the book tax provision has 2 part - current (what you will pay this year) and deferred (what you will pay in some other period. It is determined using the financial book income. (Yes, there are some things, called "permanent" differences which are past this discussion).
Tax accounting uses different conventions and requirements to determine what "income" is TAXABLE income. So for example, while financial accounting may require a company record an expense for bad debts - using some basis, (perhaps it's past history that some percent of sales are never collected) and that reduces book income that year - tax has a different set of requirements - which says that the expense CANNOT be recoded until it is absolutely realized (an "all events" test, not just an estimate) has been met.
So while over the years, the amount of bad debt (reducing income) may be very, very similar - when it happens is different. So, while the book provision, using book income, records a total tax expense that year which incorporates the booked estimate of bad debt, since tax will not report that expense until a later period and will pay the tax on that income until the tax expense is recorded, the total provision (current + deferred) carries that until tax "catches up" to books (in this case.)
These differences can go either way, and therefore produce a deferred tax asset (something you paid tax on - recognized as income for tax before book, or a deferred tax liability (where say books allowed an expense before tax (as in the above)).
The net position (having a deferred asset or liability) is what is commonly shown on financial statements, although depending on the level of presentation, there may be one line for each - with detail of at least the major items causing the differences, someplace else in the statements.
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What are some examples of items that cause deferred tax assets or deferred tax liabilities?
Examples of items that can cause deferred tax assets include net operating loss carryforwards, tax credits, and deductible temporary differences such as depreciation or bad debt expense. Examples of items that can cause deferred tax liabilities include taxable temporary differences such as accelerated depreciation or prepaid revenues. Additionally, changes in tax rates can also give rise to deferred tax liabilities or assets.
Are all temporary differences that exist at balance date recognised as deferred tax assets or deferred tax liabilities?
yes - either a deferred tax asset (DTA) or a deferred tax liability (DTL).
Where can one find deferred tax assets?
Deferred tax assets are when its determined that the company will have positive accounting income during the fiscal period. After that, the deferred tax assets can be applied.
Are deferred tax assets current assets?
no
When do you debit the deferred tax asset?
When there is a difference between the carrying amounts and tax bases of: 1. Assets 2. Liabilities 3. Expenses which leads to a reduction in your future tax liability.
Deferred tax assets?
Deferred tax assets is a companies asset that may reduce their income tax expenses. These can arise from net loss carryovers and can be applied to future fiscal periods.
Define deferred tax?
Deferred tax is the future tax liability or assets. It could either be tax liability or tax assets totally depending on the temporary difference which means the difference between book value and tax valued.
Where to put deferred tax assets in the balance sheet?
Defferred tax asset is shown in assets side of balance sheet under head of other assets.
What is deffered taxation?
Deferred tax is an accounting concept, meaning a future tax liability or asset, resulting from temporary differences between book (accounting) value of assets and liabilities and their tax value, or timing differences between the recognition of gains and losses in financial statements and their recognition in a tax computation
What is meant by 'deferred tax liabilities'?
Essentially, they are taxes that are 'deferred' to a later time. Tax Liabilities are typically taxes you are required to pay on income, or profit, you have obtained. Being able to 'defer' them is a means by which you are allowed to push them off until a future date when your tax 'status' would place you in a tax bracket that withholds less taxes from your income (as in when you retire).
When do you credit deferred tax assets?
You don't. Instead of decreasing DTA, you increase DTL.
Current assets and current liabilities Examples?
Current Assets:1 - cash2 - bank3 - inventoryCurrent liabilities:1- accounts payable2 - loan payable3 - tax payable etc
