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Income Taxes (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Tax Benefit Attributable to Our Loss from Operations

Income tax benefit attributable to our loss from operations before income taxes differs from the amounts computed by applying the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate of 34% for 2015 and 2014, as a result of the following (in thousands):

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

2015

 

 

2014

 

U.S. federal income tax benefit at statutory rates

$

(3,891

)

 

$

(3,294

)

State income tax benefit, net of federal benefit

 

(350

)

 

 

(296

)

Research and experimentation credits

 

(181

)

 

 

(171

)

Change in tax rate

 

 

 

 

1,041

 

Deferred tax asset adjustment

 

76

 

 

 

2,907

 

Other

 

188

 

 

 

178

 

Change in valuation allowance

 

4,158

 

 

 

(365

)

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

Net Deferred Tax Assets

Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting and the amounts used for income tax purposes, as well as operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. The Company early-adopted ASU 2015-17 as of December 31, 2015 retrospectively and as a result, reclassified our December 31, 2014 current deferred tax asset, and related valuation allowance, to noncurrent in the summary table below.  The income tax effects of temporary differences and carryforwards that give rise to significant portions of the Company’s net deferred tax assets consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

 

Years ended December 31,

 

 

2015

 

 

2014

 

Noncurrent deferred tax assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net operating loss carryforwards

$

46,056

 

 

$

42,135

 

Charitable contribution carryforwards

 

454

 

 

 

410

 

Research and experimentation credits

 

1,172

 

 

 

991

 

Capitalized intangibles

 

746

 

 

 

741

 

Stock based compensation

 

162

 

 

 

158

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

2

 

 

 

2

 

Vacation accrual

 

28

 

 

 

25

 

Other

 

 

 

 

 

Total noncurrent deferred tax assets

 

48,620

 

 

 

44,462

 

Valuation allowance

 

(48,620

)

 

 

(44,462

)

Net noncurrent deferred tax assets

$

 

 

$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noncurrent deferred tax liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noncurrent deferred tax liabilities

$

 

 

$

 

Net noncurrent deferred tax liabilities

$

 

 

$