FRSIC Consensus 1 – Determination Of Substantively Enacted Tax Rate For Year Of Assessment 2008 And Thereafter (1 August 2007)

The effective date of the application of this FRSIC CONSENSUS was 1 August 2007.

The release of FRSIC Consensus 1 – Determination Of Substantively Enacted Tax Rate For Year Of  Assessment 2008 And Thereafter provides guidance, to address use of tax rates when dealing with temporary differences to arrive at the amount of deferred tax assets or liabilities in Year Of Assessment 2008 in view of the government’s announcement in 2007 budget speech that corporate tax would be reduced from 27% for Year Of Assessment 2007 to 26% for Year Of Assessment 2008.

You can download FRISC Consensus 1 here: http://www.frsic.my/consensus_consensus.asp

Sample Disclosure – Note On Deferred Tax Liabilities (4 December 2008)

DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES


The movements and components of deferred tax liabilities are as follows:-


2008

2007

RM

RM

At beginning of year

xx,xxx

xx,xxx

Acquisition of subsidiary

x,xxx

x,xxx

Transfer to/(from) income statement

x,xxx

(x,xxx)

At end of year

xx,xxx

xx,xxx

Represented by:

Property, plant and equipment

– Difference between carrying value and tax base

xx,xxx

xx,xxx


Sample Disclosure – Income Taxes (30 November 2008)

Income tax

Income tax on the profit or loss for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Current tax is the expected amount of income taxes payable in respect of the taxable profit for the period and is measured using the tax rates that have been enacted at the balance sheet date.

Deferred tax is provided for, using the liability method. In principle, deferred tax liabilities are recognised for all taxable temporary differences and deferred tax assets are recognised for all deductible temporary differences, unused tax losses and unused tax credits to the extent that it is probable that taxable profit will be available against which the deductible temporary differences, unused tax losses and unused tax credits can be utilised. Deferred tax is not recognised if the temporary difference arises from goodwill or negative goodwill or from the initial recognition of an asset or liability in a transaction which is not a business combination and at the time of the transaction, affects neither accounting profit nor taxable profit.

Deferred tax is measured at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the asset is realised or the liability is settled, based on tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted at the balance sheet date. Deferred tax is recognised as income or an expense and included in the profit or loss for the period, except when it arises from a transaction which is recognised directly in equity, in which case the deferred tax is also recognised directly in equity, or when it arises from a business combination that is an acquisition, in which case the deferred tax is included in the resulting goodwill or the amount of any excess of the acquirer’s interest in the net fair value of the acquiree’s identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities over the cost of the combination.