SOUTHERN CO: income tax expense or benefit

What this measure means

Current and deferred income tax expense or benefit for continuing operations. This accounting expense differs from cash taxes paid.

Exact concept: us-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit. 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 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Selected filing history

Related financial histories

• SOUTHERN CO: total assets
• SOUTHERN CO: total liabilities
• SOUTHERN CO: stockholders equity
• SOUTHERN CO: cash and cash equivalents
• SOUTHERN CO: net income or loss
• SOUTHERN CO: operating cash flow
• SOUTHERN CO: capital expenditure payments
• SOUTHERN CO: revenue
• SOUTHERN CO: financing cash flow
• SOUTHERN CO: investing cash flow
• SOUTHERN CO: retained earnings or deficit
• SOUTHERN CO: basic weighted-average shares
• SOUTHERN CO: diluted weighted-average shares
• SOUTHERN CO: basic earnings per share
• SOUTHERN CO: diluted earnings per share
• SOUTHERN CO: net property, plant and equipment
• SOUTHERN CO: operating income or loss
• SOUTHERN CO: current assets
• SOUTHERN CO: current liabilities
• SOUTHERN CO: current accounts payable
• SOUTHERN CO: goodwill carrying amount
• SOUTHERN CO: net finite-lived intangible assets
• SOUTHERN CO: common-stock repurchase payments

Inspect the source

Entity

SOUTHERN CO / CIK 0000092122

Captured

2026-09-19T14:52:39.641Z

SEC response SHA-256

8a5eaa0e10d41a4bc087833509ed5f2e2983630e9d33d9151d8a9157551febc3

Current SEC company facts · Download the original response snapshot (gzip) · Download the selected JSON

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.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

Use this in research

A financial period ends before its results become public. Use the filing date as a minimum availability boundary, inspect amendments, and retain the original filing vintage when testing historical signals. This latest-filed selection can contain information unavailable at the time.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000092122.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"])))