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Federal Income Taxes (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2020
Federal Income Taxes [Abstract] |
Schedule of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation [Table Text Block] |
|  | Quarter Ended March 31,
($ in thousands) |  | 2020 |  | 2019
Tax at statutory rate (21% in 2020 and 2019) |  | $ | 3,359 |  |  | 15,476 |
Tax-advantaged interest |  | (1,214 | ) |  | (1,253 | )
Dividends received deduction |  | (55 | ) |  | (83 | )
Executive compensation |  | 351 |  |  | 473 |
Stock-based compensation |  | (1,881 | ) |  | (2,635 | )
Other |  | 201 |  |  | 368 |
Federal income tax expense |  | $ | 761 |  |  | 12,346 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the reconciliation using percentage or dollar amounts of the reported amount of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for the year to the amount of income tax expense that would result from applying domestic federal statutory tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 740 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84230637&loc=d3e32687-109319 + Details
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