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Lisa2540
Mar 20, 2012, 09:55 PM
In a company account worksheet, I have income tax expense which I have to raise a liability for in the balance sheet, so I have to transfer loss including income tax expense to retained earnings, I then have to credit retained earnings with the amount of income tax expense (as it is undeductible). I have to also credit Sundry Creditors or Income Tax Payable with the tax expense but don't know what to debit to balance this entry. Please help.

paraclete
Mar 21, 2012, 11:16 PM
There is usually a provision for income tax liability and an expense account called income tax.
The net income/loss acccount to cleared out to retained earnings

I don't understand the loss you are speaking about, if there is a loss then there is usually no income tax liability. A loss is when expenses exceed income whereas income tax is levied on a profit