Attached is an E-mail that I received from Suparp on July 14, 2009. See the Excel file attached to this E-mail for a listing of the journal entries booked to record the sale to Maxim US and the reimbursement from Maxim US. She confirmed in a separate E-mail that these were the final journal entries. Specifically see the w/s tab titled “Transaction”. I think that there is one adjustment missing that was to book most of the original loss. That may have been an automated transaction from the FA system. In that w/s tab see transaction #6724, which is the JV to record the reimbursement of the loss by Maxim US. Note that the charge was credited to the account for gain/loss on the sale of assets instead of the commission income account.
So it’s clear that the THB 1.3B loss on the sale of the assets was reimbursed by Maxim US. Should also be clear because if it had not been reimbursed then MX Thailand would have had a huge net loss for FY2009.
Does the tax auditor know that the loss was reimbursed? We need to make this point to the auditor ASAP to hopefully get them to go away on this issue. If they feel that the loss is lower than THB 1.3B then we should be able to reduce the reimbursement with the result that there is no impact on net income. This is extremely important. The longer that we let this go on the more difficult it will be to get it to go away.