GENERAL ELECTRIC CO: deferred income tax expense or benefit

Name: GENERAL ELECTRIC CO: deferred income tax expense or benefit
Creator: GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Deferred income tax expense or benefit for GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.

All GENERAL ELECTRIC CO financial histories

What this measure means

The deferred portion of income tax expense or benefit, arising from timing differences. It is not tax paid in the period.

Exact concept: us-gaap:DeferredIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2007-01-01 to 2020-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

This selected history ends more than two years before capture. Do not treat its final value as a current balance or current annual result. More recent filings may use another accounting tag; inspect the filings before drawing conclusions about the company.

Selected filing history

Deferred income tax expense or benefit in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period start	Period end	Value	Unit	Filed	Source filing
2020-01-01	2020-12-31	-2,926,000,000	USD	2021-02-12	10-K · 0000040545-21-000011
2019-01-01	2019-12-31	-1,104,000,000	USD	2021-02-12	10-K · 0000040545-21-000011
2018-01-01	2018-12-31	-2,245,000,000	USD	2021-02-12	10-K · 0000040545-21-000011
2017-01-01	2017-12-31	-4,205,000,000	USD	2020-02-24	10-K · 0000040545-20-000009
2016-01-01	2016-12-31	145,000,000	USD	2019-02-26	10-K · 0000040545-19-000014
2015-01-01	2015-12-31	383,000,000	USD	2018-02-23	10-K · 0000040545-18-000014
2014-01-01	2014-12-31	-882,000,000	USD	2017-02-24	10-K · 0000040545-17-000010
2013-01-01	2013-12-31	-3,540,000,000	USD	2016-02-26	10-K · 0000040545-16-000145
2012-01-01	2012-12-31	-1,152,000,000	USD	2015-02-27	10-K · 0000040545-15-000030
2011-01-01	2011-12-31	-204,000,000	USD	2014-02-27	10-K · 0000040554-14-000023
2010-01-01	2010-12-31	930,000,000	USD	2013-02-26	10-K · 0000040545-13-000036
2009-01-01	2009-12-31	-2,778,000,000	USD	2012-02-24	10-K · 0000040545-12-000016
2008-01-01	2008-12-31	-1,282,000,000	USD	2011-02-25	10-K · 0001193125-11-047479
2007-01-01	2007-12-31	657,000,000	USD	2010-02-19	10-K · 0000040545-10-000010

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Entity: GENERAL ELECTRIC CO / CIK 0000040545
Captured: 2026-09-19T14:47:20.241Z
SEC response SHA-256: 8c18acb17bbe0760fae6205c5df75b805480c58d4d1dbbabeba206d9ca36e1e3

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

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Read the published dataset with Python

import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000040545.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))