QUESTION 1

The newly qualified accountant of Parmesan Limited is busy finalizing the financial statements of the company for the year ended 28 February 2019. Unfortunately, the accountant only remembers a few statements stated by his university lecturer as the venue in which the lecture took place was newly painted and he felt that watching the paint dry was likely to be more exciting than listening to an accounting lecture.

He only remembered the following three statements:

a) The objective of IAS 12 is to account for current and future tax consequences of the recovery of assets and liabilities in the Statement of Financial Position.

b) The tax base of an asset is:

• the amount that will be deductible for tax purposes against any taxable economic benefits that will flow to an entity when it recovers the carrying amount of the asset.
• if those economic benefits will not be taxable, the tax base of the asset is equal to its carrying amount.

c) The tax base of a liability is:

• its carrying amount, less any amount that will be deductible for tax purposes in respect of that liability in future periods.
• in the case of revenue received in advance, the tax base of the resulting liability is the carrying amount, less any amount of revenue that will not be taxable in future periods.

The accountant believes that he has a good grasp of the current tax consequences but does not understand what IAS 12 means by accounting for future tax consequences.

He has the following information available to him:

Property, plant and equipment 120 000 145 000 Rent received in advance - {5 D00} - [2 ODD} Interest income receivable 20 000 _ 1. Understand the concepts of Current taxation and deferred taxation 2. Provide a discussion based on IAS 1 (Current tax is a liability and Taxation an expense) 3. Understand how it is calculated. 4. Taxable profit calculation starts with the accounting profit (profit before tax) and then adjusts for temporary differences and permanent differences. 5. Temporary differences are depreciation, wear and tear, prepaid expenses, income received in advance and non-capital profits. 6. Permanent differences are exempt income and non-deductible expenses. 7. Current normal tax is current taxation and deferred taxation. 8. Deferred tax arises when there are temporary differences between the tax laws and accounting laws. 9. In the question provided, students are required to calculate current tax and deferred tax for both the years in question. 10. The format is as follows: Profit before tax Adjust permanent differences: Less exempt dividend income (X) Less exempt capital profit (x) Add nondeductible fines X Add nondeductible donations X Adjust temporary differences: Add depreciation Less wear and tear Less prepaid expenses (cy) Add prepaid expenses (py) Add income received in advance (cy) Less income received in advance (py) Less non capital profits (xx ) Taxable profit XXX Current tax (taxable profit x tax rate) XX Deferred tax (temporary differences x tax rate) XXThe tax note must be prepared as follows: Normal tax XX Current Taxation XX Deferred Taxation x/(x) Reconciled as follows: Profit before tax (amount x tax rate) XXX Less exempt dividend income (amount x tax rate) Less exempt capital profit (amount x tax rate) Add nondeductible fines (amount x tax rate) Add nondeductible donations (amount x tax rate)