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Video instructions and help with filling out and completing Are Form 1120 Schedule M 3 Withholding

Instructions and Help about Are Form 1120 Schedule M 3 Withholding

Now that we've talked about the tax recordings, what needs to be done in terms of accruals from the book side? In general, let's look at this in terms of the tax side a little bit more. Tax accrues bled financial accounting and tax. Now, the book-tax differences are allowed by tax law under the slewed schlude case, and that goes way back to, I believe, it was in the 1930s. But for as long as we've had modern income tax, you could always have one set of books for GAAP and another for income tax because the income tax code does not follow GAAP well at all. The book-tax differences may be permanent, which include fines and penalties assessed by a government, and those would be, for example, deducted by GAAP but not for tax. Book-tax differences might also be temporary, and they're sometimes called reversing differences. Examples will be section 179, the election to expense depreciable property, and/or differences between the book and tax depreciation rates. Now let's talk a little bit more about consolidations. So we're bringing a bit more depth in here. Under GAAP, corporations consolidate subsidiaries once they own 50% or more than 50% of the other corporation. Corporations normally use the equity method for accounting for investments in which they have significant influence. Significant influence is normally defined as having a 20 to 25 percent ownership, but one could have significant influence with less ownership. So it's not a hard-and-fast numerical rule. Again, the key term here is significant influence. The numbers only give us an idea of where we normally see what we believe to be significant influence in terms of ownership percentages. Corporations use the cost method for minority interests where they don't have significant influence. Now for tax, domestic US subsidiaries...