[gruez]

>Meta deferred a large chunk of Federal income taxes.

How are can we reasonably expect them to be deferred for? Are we talking on the order of years, or decades?

[mcbrit]

A tax deferred is a tax avoided. (common wisdom)

[dahinds]

Mostly never -- most of the deferral was an accounting adjustment for the value of future tax credits that they could no longer take advantage of, so there is no actual tax liability here that will eventually be paid.