KPMG-Senior Consultant-International Tax
236 Points
Joined September 2008
The need for Deffered tax liability of asset arises because camparision of two diffrent profits are done which are as follows:
a) current tax : tax laibility according to income tax act after all adjustments under that act, say it as A b) Total tax expense: in present tax structure 30% of 18.5% (MAT) of profit shown as per books of acounts maintained as per provisions of companies act or say any other law for the time being. c) the diffrence between this total tax expense and current tax is deffered tax which may be asset of a liability, which can be further divided in to deffered tax arising due to permenant diffrences between IT act and the books, and the other one arising due to temparary diffrences between the same, and example for this is diffrence in depreciation rates as per IT act and companes act.. permenant diffrences are not adusted and left out in total tax expense only but temparary diffrences are adjusted as DTA OT DTL.