Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Schedule of components of income tax expense (benefit)

The following represents the Company's TRS income tax benefit (expense) ($ in thousands):



	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2017		2016		2015
Current tax benefit (expense)⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾	$	531	$	9,751	$	(7,639	)
Total income tax (expense) benefit	$	531	$	9,751	$	(7,639	)

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(1)	For the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company recognized a tax benefit for alternative minimum tax credits generated from a carryback of NOLs to 2014 and 2015. For the year ended December 31, 2016, excludes a REIT income tax benefit of $0.4 million.


(2)	Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the alternative minimum tax credit carryforward is a refundable tax credit over a four year period beginning in 2018 and ending in 2021 upon which the full amount of the credit will be allowed.

Schedule of deferred tax assets and liabilities

Deferred tax assets and liabilities of the Company's TRS entities were as follows ($ in thousands):



	As of December 31,
	2017			2016
Deferred tax assets⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾	$	63,258		$	66,498
Valuation allowance	(63,258		)	(66,498		)
Net deferred tax assets (liabilities)	$	—		$	—

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(1)

Deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2017 include timing differences related primarily to asset basis of $26.1 million, deferred expenses and other items of $13.6 million, NOL carryforwards of $21.3 million and other credits of $2.3 million. Deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2016 include timing differences related primarily to asset basis of $29.7 million, deferred expenses and other items of $21.2 million and NOL carryforwards of $15.6 million. The Company has not yet finalized whether any of its gross deferred tax assets are no longer realizable because of a change in tax law and will adjust its provisional gross deferred tax balances once sufficient information becomes available to make such a determination. Because the Company records a full valuation allowance, the Company does not expect to record a net change in estimate in “Income tax (expense) benefit” in its consolidated statement of operations during the period in which such determination becomes final.

(2)

Gross deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2017 were valued at the enacted corporate tax rate during the period in which such deferred tax assets are expected to be realized. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced the federal corporate tax rate to 21% from35% for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. The Company’s TRS’s applied its reduced effective tax rate to compute its gross deferred tax assets before valuation allowance.