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Summary: Deferred tax liability is a tax that is due in future years based on receipts that an individual may have or on sales that a person may have recognized, but the payment is yet to have been received. Find out more about the difference between the reported amount and the amount due with help from a tax bookkeeper in this free video on deferred income taxes.
Ken Lewellyn is co-founder of Tennessee Business Services, Inc., a Tennessee bookkeeping, tax and consultant firm which provides bookkeeping, tax and business advisory services to...read more
"Today we're here to define the term deferred tax liability. What deferred tax liability is, is a tax that's due in future years based on receipts that you may have, or sales that you may have recognized this year but you actually didn't receive the income until next year so you technically don't need to pay the tax on it until you receive the income. This is also referred to as a temporary difference between the reported amount and the amount due. If for instance you do a section 1031 exchange, your tax liability may be deferred and the basis on the original property, the gain on the original property would be deferred until you actually sell the second property that you have exchanged for and at that point the taxes would be due so that is a case of a deferred tax liability."
eHow Article: Deferred Income Tax Definition