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Note 13 - Income Taxes | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements |
Income Tax Disclosure [Text Block] | 13. Income Taxes: The components of the Company’s provision (benefit) for income taxes from continuing operations were as follows:
|  | As of December 31, |
(in thousands) |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Current: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Federal |  | $ | 9,188 |  |  | $ | 7,695 |  |  | $ | 2,563 |
State and local |  |  | 1,797 |  |  |  | 666 |  |  |  | 929 |
|  |  | 10,985 |  |  |  | 8,361 |  |  |  | 3,492 |
Deferred |  |  | 1,320 |  |  |  | (10,974 | ) |  |  | (1,994 | )
Income tax provision (benefit) |  | $ | 12,305 |  |  | $ | (2,613 | ) |  | $ | 1,498 |
The components of the Company’s deferred income taxes at December 31 are as follows:
(in thousands) |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Deferred tax assets: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Inventory (excluding LIFO reserve) |  | $ | 1,622 |  |  | $ | 1,690 |
Net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards |  |  | 2,498 |  |  |  | 3,520 |
Allowance for doubtful accounts |  |  | 504 |  |  |  | 419 |
Accrued expenses |  |  | 6,087 |  |  |  | 5,684 |
Other |  |  | 232 |  |  |  | 143 |
Deferred tax assets before valuation allowance |  |  | 10,943 |  |  |  | 11,456 |
Valuation allowance |  |  | (2,055 | ) |  |  | (2,379 | )
Total deferred tax assets |  |  | 8,888 |  |  |  | 9,077 |
Deferred tax liabilities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
LIFO reserve |  |  | (3,870 | ) |  |  | (3,958 | )
Property and equipment |  |  | (13,625 | ) |  |  | (11,363 | )
Intangibles |  |  | (4,858 | ) |  |  | (5,901 | )
Total deferred tax liabilities |  |  | (22,353 | ) |  |  | (21,222 | )
Deferred tax liabilities, net |  | $ | (13,465 | ) |  | $ | (12,145 | )
The following table summarizes the activity related to the Company’s gross unrecognized tax benefits:
(in thousands) |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Balance as of January 1 |  | $ | 40 |  |  | $ | 38 |  |  | $ | 38 |
Change in tax due to tax law |  |  | (12 | ) |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
Increases related to current year tax positions |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | 15 |  |  |  | 13 |
Decreases related to lapsing of statute of limitations |  |  | (10 | ) |  |  | (13 | ) |  |  | (13 | )
Balance as of December 31 |  | $ | 27 |  |  | $ | 40 |  |  | $ | 38 |
It is expected that the amount of unrecognized tax benefits will not materially change in the next twelve months. The tax years 2015 through 2017 remain open to examination by major taxing jurisdictions to which the Company is subject. The Company recognized interest related to uncertain tax positions in income tax expense. The following table reconciles the U.S. federal statutory rate to the Company’s effective tax rate:
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
U.S. federal statutory rate in effect |  |  | 21.0 | % |  |  | 35.0 | % |  |  | 35.0 | %
State and local taxes, net of federal benefit |  |  | 4.6 | % |  |  | 3.6 | % |  |  | 11.8 | %
Sec. 199 manufacturing deduction |  |  | - |  |  |  | (3.8 | %) |  |  | (33.6 | %)
Meals and entertainment |  |  | 0.6 | % |  |  | 1.8 | % |  |  | 64.3 | %
Tax credits |  |  | (0.6 | %) |  |  | (1.3 | %) |  |  | (48.7 | %)
Change in valuation allowance |  |  | - |  |  |  | 0.6 | % |  |  | 205.4 | %
Change in U.S. federal statutory rate |  |  | - |  |  |  | (37.7 | %) |  |  | - |
Change in tax affect of SERP |  |  | - |  |  |  | (11.4 | %) |  |  | - |
All other, net |  |  | 1.1 | % |  |  | (2.8 | %) |  |  | 122.4 | %
Effective income tax rate |  |  | 26.7 | % |  |  | (16.0 | %) |  |  | 356.6 | %
On December 22, 2017, the President of the United States signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”). The Tax Act, among other things, lowered the U.S. corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective January 1, 2018. Consequently, the Company decreased its net deferred tax liability as of December 31, 2017 by $6.2 million resulting in an income tax benefit to reflect the estimated impact of the Tax Act. Based on the Company’s predominantly U.S. based operational footprint, additional international and minimum tax provisions under the Tax Act, including the one -time transition tax for the transition from the worldwide system to the territorial system, are not applicable, or would not be material to the Company. In 2017, the Company made an out-of-period adjustment to correct and record previously unrecognized deferred tax assets, and the associated tax benefit, related to a portion of the SERP that had previously been considered non-deductible under Section 162 (m) limitations in prior years. Due to the mandatory waiting period of six months prior to any SERP payment distribution, in 2017 the Company determined that the Section 162 (m) non-deductibility limitations did not apply. The adjustment, which had accumulated since the inception of the SERP in 2005, resulted in an increase to after-tax income of $1.9 million in 2017. The Company determined that this adjustment was not material to its current or prior period consolidated financial statements. The calculation of the impact as a result of the reduced U.S. corporate income tax rate is complete The effective tax rate in 2018 of 26.7% is in line with management expectations based on interpretations of the Tax Act. The Company's effective tax rate was disproportionately high in 2016 from comparative periods due to low income before taxes relative to items that impact the effective tax rate. During 2016, the Company recorded a valuation allowance of $0.9 million to reduce certain state deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. Income taxes paid in 2018, 2017 and 2016 totaled $11.3 million, $9.4 million and $1.0 million, respectively. Some subsidiaries of the Company’s consolidated group file state tax returns on a separate company basis and have state net operating loss carryforwards expiring over the next two to 20 years. A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce certain deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized.

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