When it comes to a company’s taxes, there are two important categories to understand: assets and liabilities. Tax liability is anything that a person or company owes taxes on, such as income or ...

A deferred tax asset is usually an item on a company's balance sheet that was created by the early payment or overpayment of taxes. They are financial assets that can be redeemed in the future to ...

Accrual accounting, a system of accounting designed to account for sales and expenses in the period they were incurred, allows certain expenses, assets, and sales to be deferred to the next accounting ...

"Tax payable" and "deferred income tax liability" both appear as liabilities on a company's balance sheet; both represent taxes that must be paid in the future. However, they arise in different ways.

A bank never wants to lose money, but there can be an upside to doing so if the loss creates a deferred tax asset, which allows a company to offset future income with previously unclaimed losses for ...

Dow-30 stocks (DJIA) have about $300B of deferred tax liabilities and $150B of deferred tax assets on their balance sheets. A change in tax rates will force a revaluation of deferred tax ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter J Reilly is a Forbes contributor who covers taxes. One of the biggest changes was about how changes in "enacted rate" are ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA or the “Fund”) has modified the estimate of the Fund’s deferred tax liability based on information reported by the Master Limited ...

Most public companies should benefit from the new tax law, which lowers the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Analysts expect the S&P 500 to see a profit boost ranging from 7% to more than 10%.