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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

Note 8. Income Taxes

 

The Company files income tax returns for TG and ES in the Republic of Colombia. On December 28, 2018, a tax reform was implemented in Colombia which decreased the corporate income tax rate to 33% for fiscal year 2019, 32% for fiscal year 2020, 31% for fiscal year 2021 and 30% for fiscal year 2022, in comparison with a tax rate of 37% for 2018.

 

GM&P, Componenti and ESW LLC are U.S. entities based in Florida subject to U.S. federal and state income taxes. The estimated combined state and federal income tax rate is estimated at a rate of 26.5% based on the recently enacted U.S. Tax Reform. Tecnoglass Inc. as well as all the other subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands do not currently have any tax obligations.

 

The components of income tax expense are as follows:

 

    Three months ended March 31,  
    2019     2018  
Current income tax                
United States   $ 512     $ 407  
Colombia     3,420       2,205  
      3,932       2,612  
Deferred income Tax                
United States     (169 )     169  
Colombia     1,116       2,612  
      947       2,781  
Total income tax provision   $ 4,879     $ 5,393  
                 
Effective tax rate     40.0 %     33.7 %