Most public companies should benefit from the new tax law but some of the biggest losers will be companies with
large deferred tax assets (DTAs).
Late last August, we wrote about the abnormally -
large deferred tax asset (over $ 50 billion) on Citi's 2009 books that artificially boosted reported earnings and capital.
Not exact matches
The price of Scottish Re drifted down, until August 3, 2006, when they announced second quarter earnings, reporting a huge loss, writing off a
large portion of their
deferred tax assets, and the stock price dropped 75 % in one day.
They usually made their earnings, but often because their
tax rate was so low... and the
deferred tax assets were a
large part of book value.
Generally speaking, the younger the MLP's
assets are, the
larger the amount of
deferred taxes because non-cash depreciation charges are higher in earlier years, reducing taxable income without impacting cash distributions.
It does allow you to sell your current rentals and
defer the
taxes on profits into your new
larger asset.