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Discussion of ‘Making Deferred Taxes Relevant’

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In this discussion of Brouwer and Naarding's article ‘Making Deferred Taxes Relevant’, which is published in this issue of Accounting in Europe, I question several aspects of their proposal to change the tax accounting standard. I argue that a quest for more value relevance of individual balance sheet items is not a good guideline for accounting standard setting. The distinction between book-first and tax-first temporary differences may be helpful for some analytical purposes, but it is not sufficiently robust to serve as a basis for an accounting standard. However, I agree with the authors that the efforts to improve IAS 12 should not be abandoned.

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  • Erlend Kvaal, 2018. "Discussion of ‘Making Deferred Taxes Relevant’," Accounting in Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 231-241, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acceur:v:15:y:2018:i:2:p:231-241
    DOI: 10.1080/17449480.2018.1473618
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