Inventory seized by goverment

inventory of a company is seized by goverment and the company does not have any control over the inventory so what will be the accounting treatment for this ?

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When a company's inventory is seized by the government, accounting treatment requires careful consideration. A provision should be created based on the likelihood of recovering the goods, especially if there's a greater than 50% chance of success through legal means. This situation also triggers contingent liability criteria, necessitating recognition under relevant provisions standards. The discussion explores creating a contra-asset account for inventory provisions, similar to provisions for receivables, rather than attempting to record it as a liability.

You have to create a provsionbased on the outcome to recover the goods. If you can recover the goods through courts, if it is more than 50% chance that you will win create a provision. Based on this, check out contingent liability criteria and recognise accordingly

Under which act

Provisions standard. I did not find any Google search related Provisions+companies acts 2013. They are naming all rules as provisions. 

To think of, a provision is a liability. We create a contra asset for provision for receivables. The same way we can create it for inventory as well 

Dr. Inventory provision asset

Cr. Goods in transit

This is a contra asset provision. I tried to push it into liabilities and it cannot be done into liabilities. Any better ideas? 

Sorry forgot it was an asset previously.

 

 

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