Huntsman CORP
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed Feb 22, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed Feb 22, 2024
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Members and Board of Managers of Huntsman International LLC
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Huntsman International LLC and subsidiaries (“Huntsman International”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Huntsman International as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
These financial statements are the responsibility of Huntsman International’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on Huntsman International’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to Huntsman International in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Huntsman International is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of Huntsman International’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the Board of Managers and that (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Income Taxes—Realizability of Deferred Tax Assets—Refer to Notes 2 and 19 to the financial statements
Critical Audit Matter Description
Huntsman International recognizes deferred income taxes for tax attributes and for differences between the financial statement and tax carrying amounts of assets and liabilities at enacted statutory tax rates in effect for the years in which the deferred tax liability or asset are expected to be settled or realized. A valuation allowance is provided to offset deferred tax assets if, based upon the available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Huntsman International files tax returns in multiple jurisdictions with complex tax laws and regulations. Valuation allowances are evaluated on a tax jurisdiction basis to analyze whether there is sufficient positive or negative evidence to support a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax assets for each jurisdiction. In evaluating the objective evidence that historical results provide, Huntsman International considers cumulative income or losses during the applicable three-year period. Cumulative losses incurred over the three-year period limits Huntsman International’s ability to consider other evidence such as projections for the future. Changes in expected future taxable income and tax planning strategies in applicable jurisdictions affect Huntsman International’s assessment of the realization of deferred tax assets. Huntsman International’s judgments regarding valuation allowances are also influenced by factors outside of business results, including the costs and risks associated with any tax planning strategy associated with utilizing a deferred tax asset. Huntsman International’s valuation allowances as of December 31, 2023, were $221 million.
We identified management’s determination that it is not more likely than not that sufficient taxable income will be generated in the future to realize some of its deferred tax assets as a critical audit matter because of the significant judgments and estimates management makes related to future taxable income. This required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the need to involve our income tax specialists, when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimates of future taxable income.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit
Our audit procedures related to estimated future taxable income and the determination of whether it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized included the following, among others:
| • | We tested the effectiveness of controls over the valuation allowance for income taxes, including management’s controls over the estimates of future taxable income and the determination of whether it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized. |
| • | With the assistance of our income tax specialists, we considered (1) the appropriateness of qualifying tax planning strategies, including that they were prudent, feasible and would more likely than not result in the realization of deferred tax assets and (2) the following sources of management’s estimated future taxable income: |
| – | Estimates of future taxable income |
| – | Future reversals of existing temporary differences |
| – | Taxable income in historical periods (where carryback is permitted under the tax law) |
| • | We tested the reasonableness of management’s estimates of future taxable income by comparing the estimates to: |
| – | Historical taxable income |
| – | Internal communications to management and the Board of Managers |
| – | Forecasted information included in Huntsman International’s press releases as well as in analyst and industry reports for Huntsman International and certain of its peer companies |
| • | We evaluated whether the taxable income in prior carryback years was of the appropriate character and available under the tax law. |
| • | We evaluated the reasonableness of the methods, assumptions, and judgments used by management to determine whether a valuation allowance was necessary. |
/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
We have served as Huntsman International’s auditor since 1984.
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