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Fundamentals - Deferred Tax Assets

I noticed the description for deferred_tax_assets in in the fundamentals reference is as follows:

deferred_tax_assets
An asset on a company's balance sheet that may be used to reduce any subsequent period's income tax expense. Deferred tax assets can arise due to net loss carryovers, which are only recorded as assets if it is deemed more likely than not that the asset will be used in future fiscal periods
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So I assume we are fetching the "net" deferred tax assets on the balance sheet. Wondering if there is any way to access the Gross DTA data as well as the valuation allowance figures for each company?

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I don't see anything in Morningstar's documentation that suggests they provide Gross DTA. Sorry.

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Thanks Josh. New to Quantopian so still getting the lay of the land. Can you direct me to any premium services or third party data that might have what I am looking for?

I know that Quandl sells a monthly subscription for Zacks' fundamental data. Maybe they have the field you're looking for: https://www.quandl.com/data/ZFB/documentation/indicators

Though it's going to be harder to use on quantopian for trading as you'll need to load it via fetcher.