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Under the matching and periodicity principles, expenses are matched to the income they produce within a period. There are a number of differences between accounting profit and taxable profit (probably the largest and most common being depreciation methods). The affect of those differences are often spread over a number of years, which makes matching income tax expense to a period's income difficult. Deferred income tax computations are intended to match a period's income tax expense to its book profit. As a note, in general only very large companies make provisions on their financial statements for deferred income taxes.

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