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Income Taxes: | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Income Taxes: | Income Taxes: The Company has made Taxable REIT Subsidiary elections for all of its corporate subsidiaries other than its Qualified REIT Subsidiaries. The elections, effective for the year beginning January 1, 2001 and future years, were made pursuant to Section 856(l) of the Code. The Company's Taxable REIT Subsidiaries ("TRSs") are subject to corporate level income taxes which are provided for in the Company's consolidated financial statements. The Company's primary TRSs include Macerich Management Company and Macerich Arizona Partners LLC. The income tax benefit (provision) of the TRSs are as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended September 30, |  | For the Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Current | $ | — |  |  | $ | (79 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (235 | )
Deferred | 689 |  |  | 622 |  |  | 3,759 |  |  | 2,498 |
Income tax benefit | $ | 689 |  |  | $ | 543 |  |  | $ | 3,759 |  |  | $ | 2,263 |
The net operating loss carryforwards are currently scheduled to expire through 2033, beginning in 2024. Net deferred tax assets of $35,115 and $31,356 were included in deferred charges and other assets, net, at September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively. The tax years 2010 through 2014 remain open to examination by the taxing jurisdictions to which the Company is subject. The Company does not expect that the total amount of unrecognized tax benefit will materially change within the next twelve months.

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