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A deferred tax liability is a listing on a company's balance sheet that records taxes that are owed but are not due to be paid until a future date....
A deferred tax liability (DTL) or deferred tax asset (DTA) is created when there are temporary differences between book (IFRS, GAAP) tax and actual income tax. There are numerous types of transactions that can create temporary differences between pre-tax book income and taxable income, thus creating deferred tax assets or liabilities.
What is a Deferred Tax Liability? A Deferred Tax Liability (DTL) stems from temporary timing differences between the taxes recorded under book (U.S. GAAP) and tax accounting, where the actual amount of taxes paid to the IRS were less than the amount reported on the income statement.
Fundamentally, deferred tax balances represent the future tax impacts of recovering or otherwise consuming assets (e.g., by depreciating the asset) and settling liabilities (e.g., by cash settlement of the obligations) at the respective book values.
Deferred tax liability is calculated by finding the difference between the company's taxable income and its account earnings before taxes, then multiplying that...