The effect on existing deferred income tax accounts when a change in the tax rate is enacted into law should be Group of answer choices reported as an adjustment to income tax expense in the period of change. applied to all temporary or permanent differences that arise prior to the date of the enactment of the tax rate change, but not subsequent to the date of the change. The tax change should be ignored until the year it is enacted. considered, but it should only be recorded in the accounts if it reduces a deferred tax liability or increases a deferred tax asset.