Description
Account(s) shown on a corporation's balance sheet, typically a net liability, that represents a future (deferred) claim by the government against the corporation's assets. Deferred income taxes arise from the use of accelerated or liberalized depreciation for tax purposes instead of straight-line or other non-liberalized depreciation methods used for book purposes, and from other temporary differences in the recognition of revenue and expense items for income tax purposes and for financial reporting purposes.