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Income Taxes, Deferred Tax Assets and Deferred Tax Liabilities | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Income Taxes, Deferred Tax Assets and Deferred Tax Liabilities [Abstract] |
Income Taxes, Deferred Tax Assets and Deferred Tax Liabilities | 21. Income Taxes, Deferred Tax Assets and Deferred Tax Liabilities
| (a) | Income taxes in the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss(income)
The Company’s provision for income taxes credit consisted of:
|  | December 31, |  |  | December 31, |
|  | 2022 |  |  | 2023 |
PRC income tax |  | $ |  |  |  | $ |  |
Current income tax credit, net |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
Deferred income tax credit (expenses) |  |  | 1,228,207 |  |  |  | (2,486,145 | )
|  | $ | 1,228,207 |  |  | $ | (2,486,145 | )
United States Tax CBAK is a Nevada corporation that is subject to U.S. federal tax and state tax. On December 31, 2017 the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act makes broad and complex changes to the U.S. tax code, including, but not limited to, (1) reducing the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent; (2) requiring companies to pay a one-time transition tax on certain unrepatriated earnings of foreign subsidiaries; (3) generally eliminating U.S. federal corporate income taxes on dividends from foreign subsidiaries; (4) providing modification to subpart F provisions and new taxes on certain foreign earnings such as Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI). Except for the one-time transition tax, most of these provisions go into effect starting January 1, 2018. The Global Intangible Low-taxed Income (GILTI) is a new provision introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. U.S. shareholders, who are domestic corporations, of controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) are eligible for up to an 80% deemed paid foreign tax credit (FTC) and a 50% deduction of the current year inclusion with the full amount of the Section 78 gross-up subject to limitation. This new provision is effective for tax years of foreign corporations beginning after December 31, 2017. The Company has evaluated whether it has additional provision amount resulted by the GILTI inclusion on current earnings and profits of its foreign controlled corporations. The Company has made an accounting policy choice of treating taxes due on future U.S. inclusions in taxable amount related to GILTI as a current period expense when incurred. As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company does not have any aggregated positive tested income; and as such, does not have additional provision amount recorded for GILTI tax. No provision for income taxes in the United States has been made as CBAK had no taxable income for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2023. Hong Kong Tax The Company’s subsidiaries in Hong Kong are subject to Hong Kong profits tax rate of 16.5% and did not have any assessable profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2023 and accordingly no provision for Hong Kong profits tax was made in these periods. PRC Tax The CIT Law in China applies an income tax rate of 25% to all enterprises but grants preferential tax treatment to High-New Technology Enterprises. CBAK Power was regarded as a “High-new technology enterprise” pursuant to a certificate jointly issued by the relevant Dalian Government authorities. Under the preferential tax treatment, CBAK Power was entitled to enjoy a tax rate of 15% for the years from 2021 to 2024 provided that the qualifying conditions as a High-new technology enterprise were met. Hitrans was regarded as a “High-new technology enterprise” pursuant to a certificate jointly issued by the relevant Zhejiang Government authorities. Under the preferential tax treatment, Hitrans was entitled to enjoy a tax rate of 15% for the years from 2021 to 2024 provided that the qualifying conditions as a High-new technology enterprise were met. Nanjing CBAK was regarded as a “High-new technology enterprise” pursuant to a certificate jointly issued by the relevant Nanjing Government authorities. Under the preferential tax treatment, Nanjing CBAK was entitled to enjoy a tax rate of 15% for the years from 2023 to 2025 provided that the qualifying conditions as a High-new technology enterprise were met. A reconciliation of the provision for income taxes determined at the statutory income tax rate to the Company’s income taxes is as follows:
|  | Year ended December 31, 2022 |  |  | Year ended December 31, 2023 |
Income (loss) before income taxes |  | $ | (12,556,018 | ) |  | $ | (6,053,182 | )
United States federal corporate income tax rate |  |  | 21 | % |  |  | 21 | %
Income tax credit computed at United States statutory corporate income tax rate |  |  | (2,636,764 | ) |  |  | (1,271,168 | )
Reconciling items: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Over provision of deferred taxation in prior year |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Rate differential for PRC earnings |  |  | (685,944 | ) |  |  | (160,672 | )
Tax effect of entity at preferential tax rate |  |  | 683,459 |  |  |  | 1,918,084 |
Non-deductible (income) expenses |  |  | (978,010 | ) |  |  | 171,936 |
Share based payments |  |  | 13,481 |  |  |  | 257,407 |
Tax effect of utilisation of tax losses previously not recognised |  |  | (885,021 | ) |  |  | (222,354 | )
Valuation allowance on deferred tax assets |  |  | 3,260,592 |  |  |  | 1,792,912 |
Income tax (credit) expenses |  | $ | (1,228,207 | ) |  | $ | 2,486,145 |
| (b) | Deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities
The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2022 and 2023 are presented below:
|  | December 31, 2022 |  |  | December 31, 2023 |
Deferred tax assets |  |  |  |  |  |
Trade accounts receivable |  | $ | 1,976,354 |  |  |  | 1,156,095 |
Inventories |  |  | 554,041 |  |  |  | 2,942,702 |
Property, plant and equipment |  |  | 2,353,141 |  |  |  | 2,398,035 |
Non-marketable equity securities |  |  | 161,716 |  |  |  | 157,432 |
Equity method investment |  |  | 157,432 |  |  |  | 380,982 |
Intangible assets |  |  | 97,468 |  |  |  | 31,601 |
Accrued expenses, payroll and others |  |  | 224,795 |  |  |  | 541,665 |
Provision for product warranty |  |  | 119,207 |  |  |  | 136,611 |
Net operating loss carried forward |  |  | 34,379,188 |  |  |  | 36,103,945 |
Valuation allowance |  |  | (37,122,551 | ) |  |  | (43,645,828 | )
Deferred tax assets, non-current |  | $ | 2,743,359 |  |  |  | 203,240 |
Deferred tax liabilities, non-current |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Long-lived assets arising from acquisitions |  | $ | 256,380 |  |  | $ | 203,240 |
As of December 31, 2023, the Company’s U.S. entity had net operating loss carry forwards of $103,580,741, of which $102,293 available to reduce future taxable income which will expire in various years through 2035 and $103,478,448 available to offset capital gains recognized in the succeeding 5 tax years. As of December 31, 2023, the Company’s PRC subsidiaries had net operating loss carry forwards of $65,349,412, which will expire in various years through 2023 to 2032. Management believes it is more likely than not that the Company will not realize these potential tax benefits as these operations will not generate any operating profits in the foreseeable future. As a result, a valuation allowance was provided against the full amount of the potential tax benefits. According to the PRC Tax Administration and Collection Law, the statute of limitations is three years if the underpayment of taxes is due to computational errors made by the taxpayer or its withholding agent. The statute of limitations extends to five years under special circumstances, which are not clearly defined. In the case of a related party transaction, the statute of limitations is ten years. There is no statute of limitations in the case of tax evasion. The impact of an uncertain income tax positions on the income tax return must be recognized at the largest amount that is more likely than not to be sustained upon audit by the relevant tax authority. An uncertain income tax position will not be recognized if it has less than a 50% likelihood of being sustained. Interest and penalties on income taxes will be classified as a component of the provisions for income taxes.

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