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Hughes Retail Preferred Tracking Stock (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Hughes Retail Preferred Tracking Stock |
Schedule of carrying amounts of net assets transferred from DISH Network to EchoStar and HSS |
|  | EchoStar(1) |  | HSS |  | Total |
|  | (In thousands) |
Cash |  | $ | — |  | $ | 11,404 |  | $ | 11,404 |
Property and equipment, net |  | 349,243 |  | 82,837 |  | 432,080 |
Current liabilities |  | (3,479 | ) | (3,076 | ) | (6,555 | )
Noncurrent liabilities |  | (30,121 | ) | (8,713 | ) | (38,834 | )
Transferred net assets |  | $ | 315,643 |  | $ | 82,452 |  | $ | 398,095 |
| (1) |  | All of the net assets received by EchoStar as part of the Satellite and Tracking Stock Transaction were immediately transferred to HSS and are being used by our EchoStar Satellite Services segment.
Schedule of net amounts credited to stockholders' equity |
|  | EchoStar |  | Noncontrolling |  |  |
|  | Stockholders |  | Interest |  | Total |
|  | (In thousands) |
Transferred net assets |  | $ | 315,643 |  | $ | 82,452 |  | $ | 398,095 |
Offering costs , net of tax |  | (2,302 | ) | (610 | ) | (2,912 | )
Deferred income taxes |  | (114,525 | ) | (29,971 | ) | (144,496 | )
Reallocation based on relative liquidation values |  | (35,300 | ) | 35,300 |  | — |
Net increase in stockholders’ equity |  | $ | 163,516 |  | $ | 87,171 |  | $ | 250,687 |

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