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05/04/18
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Originally posted by Killa68
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I am with Nightmare on this one, the Accumulated tax losses at 31/12/17 (per bottom of Balance Sheet) is $1,943,061...... so 30% of that is $583m give or take a few bob.
The $442m you show above is simply what the Board have decided to carry forward on the books as "possible" to utilise. I must say I am surprised its that high !!
The balance of some $1.5bn is effectively quarantined out the back as unlikely to be utilised. However it has a value if the business can turn a profit going forward and can be restated, by perhaps seeding AGO with more cash, more assets, more equity etc, but it will take AGO decades to chew through it if it continues as is as they would need to be continually profitable.
One from left field for you all to dwell on tonight - how about a share consolidation from AGO, followed by a reverse takeover offer from AGO for MIN on a scrip for scrip basis ? Then they can do a name change after the merger. End result - AGO can offset the tax losses with all of MIN's profits.
No I am not an accountant, I leave that work to others, but I have been around this circus long enough to know that there are ways and means to extract those tax losses and monetise them. CE would have had his Tax Lawyers sorting that out if he is bidding. The value is say $583m but NPV is time related so I would happily say $150 - $200m is fair.
An offer sub 5c per share is not even worth discussing !
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$1.9bn of equity losses - different to carry forward tax losses. The carry forward tax losses are calculated in tax return and signed off by the ATO - it is not something the “board makes up”