Reading 38: Income Taxes LOSc习题精选 statements, 2010, beginning, balance, company

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LOS c: Determine the tax base of a company’s assets and liabilities.

A firm buys an asset with an estimated useful life of five years for $100,000 at the beginning of the year. The firm will depreciate the asset on a straight-line basis with no salvage value on its financial statements and will use double declining balance depreciation for tax. The tax basis for this asset at the end of the first year is closest to:

A) $80,000.

B) $60,000.

C) $40,000.

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For tax, the asset’s basis is reduced by the DDB depreciation (2/5 × 100,000 = 40,000) from $100,000 to $60,000.

 

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Alter Inc. determines that it has $35,000 of accounts receivable outstanding at the end of 20X8. Based on past experience, it recognizes an allowance for bad debt equal to 10% of its credit sales. The tax base of Alter’s accounts receivable at the end of 20X8 is closest to:

A) $35,000.

B) $31,500.

C) $3,500.

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For tax purposes, bad debt expense cannot be deducted until the receivables are deemed worthless. Therefore, the tax base is $35,000 since no bad debt expense has been deducted on the tax return. Note that the carrying value would be $31,500 since bad debt expense is reflected on the income statement.

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In 20X8, Oliver Ltd. received $80,000 cash from a customer for goods that it could not deliver until the next year and established a liability for unearned revenue. Oliver reports under U.S. GAAP, faces a 40% tax rate, and is located in a tax jurisdiction where unearned revenue is taxed as received. On their balance sheet for 20X8, what change in deferred tax should Oliver record as a result of this transaction?

A) A deferred tax liability of $32,000.

B) A deferred tax asset of $32,000.

C) There is no effect on deferred tax items from this transaction.

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Oliver has paid tax on the $80,000 revenue in 20X8, but has not recorded the revenue on it for financial statement purposes. This results in a temporary difference of $32,000, which is a deferred tax asset. The tax asset will be realized when the company recognizes the revenue on its financial statements in the subsequent period.

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At the end of 20X8, Martin Inc. estimates that $26,000 of warranty repairs will be required in the future on goods already sold. For tax purposes, warranty expense is not deductible until the work is actually performed. The firm believes that the warranty work will be required over the next two years. The tax base of the warranty liability at the end of 20X8 is:

A) zero.

B) $13,000.

C) $26,000.

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The carrying value of the warranty liability is $26,000 (the same amount is recorded as a liability on the balance sheet and as an expense on the income statement). The tax base is equal to the carrying value less any amounts deductible in the future. Therefore, the tax base is $0 ($26,000 ? $26,000) since the warranty expense will be deductible when the work is performed next year.