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Arndt, Inc., reported the following for 2018 and 2019 ($ in millions):

	2018				2019
Revenues	$	896			$	993
Expenses		766				806
Pretax accounting income (income statement)	$	130			$	187
Taxable income (tax return)	$	125			$	210
Tax rate: 40%

1. Expenses each year include $30 million from a two-year casualty insurance policy purchased in 2018 for $60 million. The cost is tax deductible in 2018.
2. Expenses include $3 million insurance premiums each year for life insurance on key executives.
3. Arndt sells one-year subscriptions to a weekly journal. Subscription sales collected and taxable in 2018 and 2019 were $32 million and $31 million, respectively. Subscriptions included in 2018 and 2019 financial reporting revenues were $19 million ($8 million collected in 2017 but not recognized as revenue until 2018) and $27 million, respectively. Hint: View this as two temporary differences—one reversing in 2018; one originating in 2018.
4. 2018 expenses included a $14 million unrealized loss from reducing investments (classified as trading securities) to fair value. The investments were sold in 2019.
5. During 2017, accounting income included an estimated loss of $5 million from having accrued a loss contingency. The loss was paid in 2018 at which time it is tax deductible.
6. At January 1, 2018, Arndt had a deferred tax asset of $5 million and no deferred tax liability.

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1. Which of the five differences described are temporary and which are permanent differences?Required:

3. Compute the deferred tax amounts that should be reported on the 2018 balance sheet. (Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)

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