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Income Tax

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  • November 2, 2018 at 8:37 am #483561
    mika84
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    Could you please help with following, I spent so much time trying to get to the core:

    EXAMPLE:
    A company ’ s financial statements show profit before tax of $1,000 in
    each of years 1, 2 and 3. This profit is stated after charging
    depreciation of $200 per annum. This is due to the purchase of an asset
    costing $600 in year 1 which is being depreciated over its 3 ­ year useful
    economic life on a straight line basis.
    The tax allowances granted for the related asset are:
    Income tax is calculated as 30% of taxable profits.
    Apart from the above depreciation and tax allowances there are no other
    differences between the accounting and taxable profits.
    Required:  
    Year 1   $240
    Year 2   $210
    Year 3   $150

    1)Accounting for deferred tax, prepare statement of profit or
    loss and statement of financial position extracts for each of
    years 1, 2 and 3.  

    (end of the example)

    I am following your technique of 4 steps as shown in example 3 p 59, then compare what they write with regards to SPL:

    Statement of profit or loss extracts:
    1      2      3  
    Profit before tax  1,000  1,000  1,000 
    Tax  (300)  (300)  (300) 
    Profit after tax  700  700  700 

    am I write that they don’t show all those deferred tax and movements you are illustrating, because we don’t have Tax base and Caring value information? then is it right that we will not be able to calculate deferred tax for SPL if we don’t have that data ?

    November 2, 2018 at 11:45 am #483578
    mika84
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    Sorry, I would like to add that I understand that for SFP we have:

    Y1 Y2 Y3
    Tax 288 297 315
    Def.tax 12 3 -15

    Following your instructions i can do following:

    SPL

    Y1 Y2 Y3
    PBT 1000 1000 1000
    Current tax -288 -297 -315
    DT movement 12 -9 18

    As you see my movements dont give smooth 700 profit figures.What is wrong?

    November 3, 2018 at 7:32 am #483637
    P2-D2
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    Hi,

    How does your answer compare to the answer to the question you are attempting? Is your current tax correct? Is your deferred tax correct? If they aren’t then that will be where you are making the mistakes. You cannot just look at the final figures and see they’re wrong, you need to dig further into the answer to see where you’ve gone wrong.

    Once you’ve found where the mistakes have been made, then let me know and I can explain further.

    Thanks

    November 6, 2018 at 1:17 pm #484005
    mika84
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    Thanks for replying,

    Step1 – find temporary difference

    we don’t know TD because we are given profit figures
    so we move to

    Step2 – position

    position is TD * tax rate, but we don’t know TD
    however we can directly calculate deferred tax by
    comparing Profit on accounting base (1000 per year) and taxable
    profit:
    Y1 Y2 Y3
    Profit accounting base 1000 1000 1000
    Taxable profit 1200-240=960 1200-210=990 1200-150=1050
    Tax 960*0,3=288 990*0,3=297 1050*0,3=315

    Tax paid on accounting base 300 300 300
    Tax paid on taxable base 288 297 315
    Deffered tax asset or liability -12 -3 15
    liabilit liability asset

    SPL
    Profit before tax 1000 1000 1000
    Incom tax expense -288 -297 -315
    Deferred tax -12 -3 15
    Profit 700 700 700

    Here I can not understand, why in your example do movements refer to SPL and
    here to SFP ?

    SFP
    Noncurrent liabilities: DT -12 -15 0
    movement -3 movement +15

    Current liabilities : Tax -288 -297 -315

    November 11, 2018 at 7:16 pm #484497
    P2-D2
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    Hi,

    You can calculate the temporary differences. You’re given the cost of the asset ($600) and the amount of depreciation charged each year ($200).

    You can then work out the tax base using the same cost of the asset and the tax allowances given in the question. If you use these then you’ll be able to follow the steps more closely.

    Thanks

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