Does "credit" mean gains or profit in "tax credit"?
"Elmo reports a $28,000 after-tax loss [$40,000 pretax loss- $12,000 income tax credit ($40,000 x 30%)] in the results from discontinued operations section of its 2016 income statement, along with the income (loss) from the operation of held-for-sale Division M for all of 2016."