Accounting - Tax charge13 Mar 2023 15:02
If you wonder here is an explanation. Nothing dodgy.
The $16.9m tax charge for FY22 seems high in relation to $14.8m PBT, but a material portion of CNIC's administrative expenses - namely foreign exchange gains/losses, share-based payment expenses and the bulk of amortisation and impairment of intangible assets - are not tax deductible in almost all jurisdictions in which we operate. As such, a more realistic effective tax rate should be derived by dividing the tax charge by EBITDA excluding FX and share-based payment expenses, which is (AEBITDA $86.0m minus Non-core opex $8.2m =) $77.8m. 16.9 / 77.8 = 21.7%, which is a more meaningful ETR, even before we get into breakdowns of PBT per jurisdiction.