Thomas McDowell Co. establishes a $120,000,000 liability at the end of 2020 for the estimated site-cleanup costs at two of its manufacturing facilities. All related closing costs will be paid and deducted on the tax return in 2021. Also, at the end of 2020, the company has $60,000,000 of temporary differences due to excess depreciation for tax purposes, $8,400,000 of which will reverse in 2021. The enacted tax rate for all years is 40%, and the company pays taxes of $160 million of taxable income in 2020. McDowell expects to have taxable inome in 2021.
Required:
a) Determine the deferred taxes to be reported at the end of 2020.
b) Indicate how the deferred taxes computed in (a) are to be reported on the balance sheet.

How should the environmental effects be dealt with when evaluating this project? the environmental effects should be ignored since the plant is legal without mitigation. the environmental effects should be treated as a sunk cost and therefore ignored. if the utility mitigates for the environmental effects, the project is not acceptable. however, before the company chooses to do the project without mitigation, it needs to make sure that any costs of "ill will" for not mitigating for the environmental effects have been considered in the original analysis. the environmental effects should be treated as a remote possibility and should only be considered at the time in which they actually occur. the environmental effects if not mitigated would result in additional cash flows. therefore, since the plant is legal without mitigation, there are no benefits to performing a "no mitigation" analysis.