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have been designing ways to link intangible assets to the place where they were created, hence defining nexus. In addition, as intangible assets seem to generate above-average returns , governments have designed several ways to promote investment in these assets. For instance, governments typically provide a variety of back-end tax incentives including tax credits, super-deductions, or accelerated depreciation, though mainly for R&D. Several economists have evaluated the effectiveness of tax incentives for R&D or studied how the interactions between intangible assets and physical assets might affect the effectiveness of tax policy. A few countries also provide front-end incentives, mostly designed tax rebates (reduced corporate tax rates) for R&D income, known as
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While it may be true it is very difficult to prove and academic research on the subject is tentative at best. Furthermore, for something to be classified as a development cost it must satisfy 6 requirements that are not easy to circumvent. Finally, if managers wish to manipulate reported earnings for
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Anyway, I've noticed that in the article there is the folloinw description under
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Hi, first of all, this is my first time posting a comment, so if I did something worng, I apologize and please let me know how it can be done. Also, maybe I missed it but I cannot find anywhere within the discussion to reply or post a comment, editing the page was the only way I could of done it. If
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Given the growing importance of intangible assets as a source of economic growth and tax revenue, as well as the fact that their non-physical nature makes it easier for taxpayers to engage in tax strategies such as income-shifting or transfer pricing, tax authorities and international organizations
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Saying "In general, internally generated intangible assets are not recognized" could be quite misleading. As it does not appear anywhere within IAS 38 and I don't believe it is generally accepted business practice to expense all expenditures on internally generated intangible assets. If this is the
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The classification of research and development expenditure can be highly subjective, and it is important to note that organisations may have an ulterior motive in its classification of research and development expenditure. Less scrupulous directors may manipulate financial statements through their
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The authors should mention that R&D is considered as one among several other intangible assets (e.g., about 16 percent of all intangible assets in the US), even if most countries treat R&D as current expense for both legal and tax purposes. While most countries report some intangibles in
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If a company purchases another company (or a part of it), goodwill is the "difference" between the net assets (Assets - Liabilities) and what was paid for the business/segment. Goodwill can be positive, representing the purchaser believes there is extra value in the business, or there can be
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The new lead section adopts a familiar textbook approach to the definition of an intangible asset. It describes the "evolution" of the intangible asset definition beginning with the
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amount of spending required to generate intangibles (such as R&D expenses or compensation of employees engaged in research), or output-based approaches where measurement is based on the amount of value-added generated by intangible assets (e.g., royalty income from licensing patents).
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Hi everyone, just a quick introduction about myself as this is my first contribution to
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First I am confused with the phrase "legal intangibles". Looking at IAS 38, and after I have read most of the (2009 version) IFRS/IAS sections,(part of my job) I have not come across the term legal intangibles in IFRS. So I am not sure what it refers to.
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Adding the classification of cash flow activity that intangible assets are would be beneficial. I believe it's an investing activity (rather than operating or financing). However I can't find any evidence supporting this, so I'll leave it to the experts!
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Spengel. 2015. "Intellectual property box regimes: effective tax rates and tax policy considerations." International Tax and Public Finance. International Tax and Public Finance. June 2015, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp 502-30.
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does. McDonalds owns the name and classifies it as an intangible. This helps McDonalds because nobody else can use the name. If someone does use the anem and McDonalds takes them to court and wins, the extra legal costs can be capitalized and
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For examples of resource-based and output-based approaches to measuring intangible assets, see Lev, Baruch. (2005). "Intangible Assets: Concepts and
Measurements." Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Vol. 2. Elsevier Inc.
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any reason it's not a matter for accounting standards, ultimately auditors will pass judgement on whether a particular cost falls into either the research or development phase. What do you think?
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generated intangible assets, only expenditures incurred under development phase can be capitalize, and they are subject to an additional set of recognition criteria.
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Megna, Pamela; Dennis C. Mueller. (1991). "Profit Rates and Intangible Capital." The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 73, No. 4., November, pp. 632-42.
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Webster, Elisabeth; Jensen, Paul H. (2006). "Investment in Intangible Capital: An Enterprise Perspective." The Economic Record, Vol. 82, No. 256, March, 82-96.
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We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.
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