Carolina Corp. purchased equipment for $180,000 on January 2, 2016, its first day of operations. For book purposes, the equipment will be depreciated straight-line over three years with no residual value. Pre-tax accounting incomes and taxable incomes are as follows:

201620172018

Pre-tax accounting income$124,000$140,000$150,000

Taxable income100,000140,000 174,000

The reversible difference between pre-tax accounting income and taxable income is due solely to the use of CCA for tax purposes.

Required:

a.Prepare the adjusting journal entries to record income taxes for all three years (expense, deferred tax assets/liabilities, etc.), assuming that the enacted income tax rate for all three years is 30%.

b.Prepare the adjusting journal entries to record income taxes for all three years (expense, deferred tax assets/liabilities, etc.), if the enacted income tax rate for 2016 is 30% but that in the middle of 2017, Parliament raises the income tax rate to 35%, retroactive to the beginning of 2017.