China Communications Services Corporation Limited Annual Report 2015
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NOTES TO THE
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the year ended 31 December 2015
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
(continued)
(u) Income tax
Income tax for the year comprises current tax and movements in deferred tax assets and liabilities. Current tax and
movements in deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognised in profit or loss except to the extent that they relate to
items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity, in which case the relevant amounts of tax are
recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity, respectively.
Current tax is the expected tax payable on the taxable income for the year, using tax rates enacted or substantively
enacted at the end of the reporting period, and any adjustment to tax payable in respect of previous years.
Additional income taxes that arise from the distribution of dividends are recognised when the liability to pay the
related dividends is recognised.
Deferred tax assets and liabilities arise from deductible and taxable temporary differences respectively, being the
differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and their tax bases.
Deferred tax assets also arise from unused tax losses and unused tax credits.
Apart from certain limited exceptions, all deferred tax liabilities, and all deferred tax assets to the extent that it is
probable that future taxable profits will be available against which the asset can be utilised, are recognised. Future
taxable profits that may support the recognition of deferred tax assets arising from deductible temporary differences
include those that will arise from the reversal of existing taxable temporary differences, provided those differences
relate to the same taxation authority and the same taxable entity, and are expected to reverse either in the same
period as the expected reversal of the deductible temporary difference or in periods into which a tax loss arising from
the deferred tax asset can be carried back or forward. The same criteria are adopted when determining whether
existing taxable temporary differences support the recognition of deferred tax assets arising from unused tax losses
and credits, that is, those differences are taken into account if they relate to the same taxation authority and the
same taxable entity, and are expected to reverse in a period, or periods, in which the tax loss or credit can be utilised.
The limited exceptions to recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities are those temporary differences arising from
goodwill not deductible for tax purposes, the initial recognition of assets or liabilities that affect neither accounting
nor taxable profit (provided they are not part of a business combination).
The amount of deferred tax recognised is measured based on the expected manner of realization or settlement of the
carrying amount of the assets and liabilities, using tax rates enacted or substantively enacted at the end of the
reporting period. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are not discounted.
The carrying amount of a deferred tax asset is reviewed at each end of the reporting period and is reduced to the
extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow the related tax benefit to
be utilised. Any such reduction is reversed to the extent that it becomes probable that sufficient taxable profits will be
available.
