Accounting Standards Update · 2019

ASU 2019-12 — Income Taxes (Topic 740)—Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes

The amendments in this Update simplify the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740, Income Taxes. The amendments also improve consistent application or and simplify GAAP for other areas of Topic 740 by clarifying and amending existing guidance.

This Accounting Standards Update is the final version of Proposed Accounting Standards Update 2019-700—Income Taxes (Topic 740)—Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, which has been deleted.

Accounting Standards Update No. 2019-12 (PDF)

Issued: December 18, 2019

Text as published in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification, Basic View.