P5 EVA chapter 11 Cantor exam question

Hi I was slightly confused as in the Q1 part III) exam question for Cantor group the tax amount is shown in the Appendix 1 as 2,512,993 but in the additional information it said $2.1m tax was paid in the year. Do you always take the tax amount to be whatever was paid in the period regardless of what the actual tax shown in the P&L is? As this is what they have based the answer on in this question. Thanks Kiran