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Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Prepaid Expense and Other Assets [Abstract] |
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets | Prepaid expenses and other current assets Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following at year end:
|  | 2017 |  | 2016
Prepaid taxes |  | $ | 48,076 |  |  | $ | 52,407 |
Prepaid expenses |  | 27,478 |  |  | 18,753 |
Promotion items and prepayments |  | 17,683 |  |  | 12,853 |
Other |  | 967 |  |  | 3,630 |
|  | $ | 94,204 |  |  | $ | 87,643 |

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