In the First Year of Operations, a Company Reports Taxable

question 71

Essay

In the first year of operations, a company reports taxable income of $125,000 and paid $31,250 of income taxes. It is now the end of the second year, and the company has a loss of $175,000 for tax purposes. The company's management believes it is probable the company will be able to use up its tax losses. The tax rate is currently 40%.
Required:
Compute the amounts of income tax receivable and/ or deferred income tax asset in the current (second)year.

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Definitions:

Symmetry

A property of shapes or designs where one half is a mirror image of the other half.

Bimodal

Describing a distribution that has two different modes or peaks in its frequency of occurrence.

Frequency

The number of times an event occurs within a given data set.

Skewed

Skewed refers to a distribution that is asymmetrical, where data points are more concentrated on one side of the scale, leading to a long tail on the opposite side.