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- October 7, 2013 at 7:29 am #142198
current tax 1400? deferred tax 6000?provison for income tax for the year 12000, at year end the tax base was 14000 less than carrying amount the tax rate is 30%
when work on income tax expence ,12000 – 1400?overprovision?-1800 ,why do we subtract 1400 how to tell it is overprovisionOctober 7, 2013 at 10:46 am #142206When you are doing business for example, you are required to file a provisional return to the Revenue department. This provisional return is based on estimates. For Example, when you expect to make US$ 200,000 as profit for your business, you pay Revenue 200,000 X30%= 60,000. Now at the end of the accounting period you make a profit of US$150,000, the tax which you pay is 150,000 X30%=45,000. This means that there was an over provision of 15,000 (60,000-45,000) . This 15,000 is supposed to refunded by the Revenue department. Similarly if you expect to make a profit of 200,000 as above, the provisional tax you pay is 60,000 (200,000X30%) but at the end of the accounting period you make a profit of say 250,000 then the tax to pay is 75,000 (250,000X30%). This means there was an under provision of 15,000 (60,000-75,000). This amount you are supposed to pay it to the Revenue department.
So for the tax payable to revenue department is computed as.
Current Tax (profit x Rate of Tax)……………………………..XXXXX
Add. Under provision………………………………………………..XXX
Less. Over provision……………………………………………….(XXX)
Tax Payable………………………………………………………………………..XXXXX ….To SOP/L & CI
Hope this helps.October 8, 2013 at 1:52 am #142237O, thank you so much. Your explanation is very clear and logical.
November 25, 2013 at 8:02 am #147707Hi @beyagala thank you soooo much for helping, this topic was very pain for me until I found this post, Now it become very easy for me to compute deffered tax and to put it rightly into financial statements………God bless you and may you live a very happy life (Ameen)
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