Mark or Make is a bourbon distillery. Sales have been steady for the past three years, and operating costs have remained unchanged. On January 1, 2019, Mark or Make took advantage of a special deal to prepay its rent for three years at a substantial savings. The amount of the prepayment was $60,000. The income statement items (excluding the rent) are shown here. 2019 2020 2021 Gross profit on sales 350,000 349,000 351,000 Operating expense 210,000 210,000 210,000 Assume that the rental is deducted on the corporate tax purposes in 2019 and that there are no other temporary differences between taxable income and pretax accounting income. In addition, there are no permanent differences between taxable income and pretax accounting income. The corporate tax rate for all three years is 30%.

1. For years 2019 and 2020, Mark or Make reported net income applying the concept of comprehensive interperiod income tax allocation. During 2020, Congress passed a new tax law that will increase the corporate tax rate from 30 to 33%. Reconstruct the income statements for 2020 and 2019 under the following assumptions:
   1. Mark or Make uses the deferred method to account for interperiod income tax allocation.
   2. Mark or Make uses the assetliability approach to account for interperiod income tax allocation.
2. Which of the two approaches used in question (a) provides measures of income and liabilities that are useful to decision makers? Explain.