Discuss the reasons why IAS 12 (revised) requires enterprises to provide for deferred taxation on revaluations of assets and fair value adjustments on business combination.

      

IAS 12 (revised) “Income Taxes” requires an enterprise to provide for deferred tax in full for all deferred tax liabilities with only limited expectations. The original IAS 12, and the equivalent Kenyan Accounting Standard, allowed an enterprise not to recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities where there was reasonable evidence that timing differences would not reverse for some considerable period ahead; this was known as the partial provision method.
The original IAS 12 did not refer explicitly to fair value adjustments made on a business combination and did not require an enterprise to recognize a deferred tax liability in respect of asset revaluations. The revised IAS 12 now requires deferred tax adjustments for these items and classifies them as temporary differences.

Discuss the reasons why IAS 12 (revised) requires enterprises to provide for deferred taxation on revaluations of assets and fair value adjustments on business combination.

  

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Wilfred
International Accounting Standards permit certain assets to be carried at fair value or to be revealed (examples in IAS 16, property and plant equipment. IAS 38, Intangible assets, IAS 39, financial instrument Recognition and measurement and IAS 40 investment property). In some jurisdictions, the revaluation or other restatement of an asset to fair value affects taxable profit (tax loss) for the current period. As a result the tax base of the asset is adjusted and no temporary differences arises. In other jurisdictions, the revaluation or restatement of an asset does not affect taxable profit in the period of the revaluation or restatement and consequently the tax base of the asset is not adjusted. Nevertheless the future recovery of the carrying amount will result in a taxable flow of economic benefits to the enterprise and the amount that will be deductible for tax purposes will differ from the amount of those economic benefits. The differences between the carrying amount of a revalued asset and its base is a temporary difference and gives rise to a deferred tax liability or asset. This is true even if;
(a) The enterprise does not intend to dispose of the assets. In such cases the revalued carrying amount of the asset will be recovered through use and this will generate taxable income which exceeds the depreciation that will be allowable for tax purposes in future periods; or
(b) Tax on capital gains is deferred if the periods of the disposal of the assets are invested in similar assets. In such cases the tax will ultimately become payable on sale or use of the similar assets.
Wilfykil answered the question on February 8, 2019 at 08:14


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