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Accounting Demystified
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Accounting Demystified

by Jeffry R. Haber
November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
186 pages
2h 50m
English
AMACOM
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Taxes Payable

The tax return for a corporation that has a calendar year-end (December 31) is due March 15 of the following year. For the year ended December 31, the corporation may have generated net income, resulting in taxes that will have to be paid. These taxes are due on the income that was earned for the year ended December 31, even though they do not have to be paid until a couple of months later. We want to record the income tax in the period in which the income was generated (the matching principle again). To do this, we estimate what the tax will be when we finally get around to preparing the tax return. We then record the estimated tax with the following entry:

When we file the tax return, we will send a check with it to pay the tax. ...

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ISBN: 0814407900