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Annual Report 2015 Report by the Board of Directors Notes Proposed distribution of earnings Auditor’s report Eleven-year review Quarterly information

Note 10 Taxes

All amounts in SEKm unless otherwise stated

  Group Parent Company
  2014 2015 2014 2015
Current taxes –881 –1,252 –40 –53
Deferred taxes 126 719 117 156
Taxes included in income for the period –755 –533 77 103
Taxes related to OCI 798 –85 –1 –1
Taxes included in total ­comprehensive income 43 –618 76 102

There were no material effects of changes in tax rates in 2015 or 2014. The consolidated accounts include deferred tax liabilities of SEK 99m (87) related to untaxed reserves in the Parent Company.

Theoretical and actual tax rates

% 2014 2015
Theoretical tax rate 28.8 28.9
Non-taxable/non-deductible income statement items, net –0.1 3.0
Non-recognized tax losses carried forward 10.8 7.3
Utilized non-recognized tax losses carried forward –2.7 –3.5
Deferred taxes –8.9 –17.3
Withholding tax 2.6 3.7
Other –5.3 3.3
Actual tax rate 25.2 25.4

The theoretical tax rate for the Group is calculated on the basis of the weighted total Group net sales per country, multiplied by the local statutory tax rates. 

Non-recognized deductible temporary differences

As of December 31, 2015, the Group had tax loss carry-forwards and other deductible temporary differences of SEK 10,868m (10,260), which have not been included in computation of deferred tax assets. The decision not to recognize certain temporary differences is based on an assessment where the likelihood of future utilization is evaluated for each of the temporary items. The Group typically does not recognize temporary differences in situations where it is considered the ability to utilize these to be limited. The non-recognized deductible temporary differences will expire as follows:

  December 31, 2015
2015 1
2016 165
2017 152
2018 243
2019 299
2020– 4,406
Without time limit 5,602
Total 10,868

Changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities

The table below shows the movement in net deferred tax assets and liabilities.

Net deferred tax assets and liabilities

  Excess
of
depreciation
Provision
for
pension
Provision
for
restructuring
Other
provisions
Inventories Recognized
unused
tax
losses
Accrued
expenses
and
prepaid
income
Other Total
deferred
tax
assets
and
liabilities
Set-off
tax
Net
deferred
tax
assets
and
liabilities
Opening balance, January 1, 2014 –232 407 527 904 –243 785 516 695 3,359 3,359
Recognized in total comprehensive income 55 795 30 39 35 148 –67 –101 934 934
Exchange-rate differences –44 78 16 134 –39 22 58 146 371 371
Closing balance, December 31, 2014 –221 1,280 573 1,077 –247 955 507 740 4,664 4,664
Of which deferred tax assets 323 1,307 573 1,213 178 955 507 1,295 6,351 –1 000 5,351
Of which deferred tax liabilities –544 –27 –136 –425 –555 –1,687 1,000 –687
Opening balance, January 1, 2015 –221 1,280 573 1,077 –247 955 507 740 4,664 4,664
Recognized in total comprehensive income –53 –79 –74 172 8 225 72 334 605 605
Exchange-rate differences –21 28 –28 –49 –33 79 10 –11 –25 –25
Closing balance, December 31, 2015 –295 1,229 471 1,200 –272 1,259 589 1,063 5,244 5,244
Of which deferred tax assets 338 1,233 471 1,343 220 1,259 614 1,512 6,990 –1,101 5,889
Of which deferred tax liabilities –633 –4 –143 –492 –25 –449 –1,746 1,101 –645

Other deferred tax assets include tax credits related to the production of energy-efficient appliances amounting to SEK 499m (463) and to foreign tax credits in US of SEK 506m (178).