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AT – Nov 2022 – Q7 – Deferred Tax Provisions
Compute tax liabilities for 2021 assessment year and deferred tax provisions for 2021 and 2022 for ICTREC Mining Company Limited using provided financial data.
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THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF NIGERIA
PROFESSIONAL LEVEL EXAMINATION – NOVEMBER 2022
ADVANCED TAXATION
The issue of correct computation and presentation of deferred taxes in financial statements has been a source of worry to the Managing Director of ICTREC Mining Company Limited. Last year, the Federal Inland Revenue Service raised a query on the financial statements of the company and the annual tax returns filed for purposes of tax assessment.
In order to avoid any tax query on the financial statements, your firm of chartered accountants has been approached by the Managing Director of the company to assist in the preparation of financial statements suitable for presentation at the annual general meeting of the company and to the tax authorities for purposes of determination of tax liabilities payable.
All the relevant books of accounts have been made available to you in respect of the company’s financial transactions. The extract from the accounts of the company for the year ended December 31, 2021, revealed the following:
N’000 Turnover
125,400 Rent and rates 12,200
Direct mining transportation cost 1,190
Direct mining cost 47,400 60,790 Gross profit
64,610 Dividends income (net)
3,900 Interest on foreign deposit
2,750
71,260 Salaries and wages 25,340
Depreciation of mining plant 2,500
Depreciation (other non-current assets) 7,840
Other administrative and general expenses 4,210
Loan interest 850
Loss on sale of old mining plant 200 40,940 Net profit
30,320
The following additional information was provided:
(i) The interest on foreign deposit was repatriated to the country through the company’s domiciliary account in a Nigerian deposit money bank.
(ii) The company has unrelieved losses of N2,800,000.
(iii) Capital allowance as agreed with the relevant tax authorities for the year was N7,250,000.
(iv) The tax written down value of qualifying capital expenditure as at December 31, 2021, after the above capital allowances have been taken into account was N35,110,000, while the net book value on the same date was N23,700,000.
(v) The opening tax written down values and net book values were N42,620,000 and N33,900,000, respectively.
(vi) Unpaid tax at the beginning of the year was N15,620,000, while payment in the year was N18,860,000.
(vii) Assume a depreciation rate of 10% per annum on its mining plant.
(viii) The company revalued its mining plant during the year ended December 31, 2017. The revaluation surplus there from which amounted to N5 million was reflected in the company’s financial statements for that year.
Required: You have been directed by your Principal Partner to work on this assignment and present a draft of the report to him for review before sending it to the Managing Director of ICTREC Mining Company Limited. The report should show explicitly the computation of the companies:
a. Tax liabilities for the relevant year of assessment b. Deferred tax provisions for 2021 and 2022
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